EDUT 555 - Teaching Gifted and Talented Students

Credit(s): 3
This course aims to provide K-12 classroom teachers with the strategies and techniques they will need to use to meet the academic and emotional needs of gifted and talented students. Course content includes practical approaches for challenging even the most capable students in the regular classroom, pull-out, or full-time classes for gifted students. A major emphasis is placed upon epistemology (ways of knowing) unique to gifted students as well as an appropriate pedagogy to specifically enhance each student’s ability.