gifted

Examples of gifted in the following topics:

• The Gifted

  • There is no standard definition of "gifted," nor a standard way of implementing gifted education.
  • The 2002 No Child Left Behind law shifted attention away from gifted students.
  • Though gifted education programs are widespread, there is no standard definition of "gifted," nor a standard way of implementing gifted education.
  • Second, gifted and talented youth are inherently at-risk.
  • List the various forms of education for the gifted and the controversies around gifted education

• Career Development: Vocation and Identity

  • The idea of vocation is central to the Christian belief that God has created each person with gifts and talents oriented toward specific purposes and a way of life.
  • In the broader sense, Christian vocation includes the use of one's gifts in their profession, family life, church, and civic commitments for the sake of the greater common good.

• Tracking Systems

  • Research suggests that tracking produces substantial gains for gifted students in tracks specially designed for the gifted and talented, meeting the need for highly gifted students to be with their intellectual peers in order to be appropriately challenged.

• Tracking and Within-School Effects

  • Studies show that, while tracking for regular instruction makes no real difference in scholastic achievement for low and average ability students, it does produce substantial gains for gifted students in tracks specially designed for the gifted and talented.

• The Hidden Curriculum

  • Some, even the most gifted, are turned off to education altogether.

• Political Parties and Elections

  • Money and gifts-in-kind to a party, or its leading members, may be offered as incentives.

• Intelligence and Inequality

  • Students who score high on measures of sociability earn more money and get more education than equally intellectually gifted students who achieve lower scores in social skills.

• Transitional Adulthood

  • If a new student later fails to produce the receipt that demonstrated his gift upon command, he could be thrown into a fountain.

• Power, Authority, and Violence

  • Charismatic authority is that authority which is derived from a gift of grace, the power of one's personality, or when the leader claims that his authority is derived from a "higher power" (e.g.

• Capitalism

  • In the Protestant Ethic, Weber further stated that "moneymaking – provided it is done legally – is, within the modern economic order, the result and the expression of diligence in one's calling… And, "If God show you a way in which you may lawfully get more than in another way (without wrong to your soul or to any other), if you refuse this, and choose the less gainful way, you cross one of the ends of your calling, and you refuse to be God's steward, and to accept His gifts and use them for him when He requierth it: you may labour to be rich for God, though not for the flesh and sin".