Teaching Culturally Diverse Gifted Students
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This is an easy way to nurture all seven intelligences and provide opportunities for each student to work in a way that is most appropriate for his or her abilities.
Donna Ford
Donna Y. Ford, Ph.D., professor at Vanderbilt University, is an award-winning author in gifted and urban education.
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Teaching Culturally Diverse Gifted Students - Donna Ford
THE PRACTICAL STRATEGIES SERIES
IN GIFTED EDUCATION
series editors
FRANCES A. KARNES & KRISTEN R. STEPHENS
Teaching Culturally
Diverse Gifted Students
Donna Y. Ford & H. Richard Milner
PRUFROCK PRESS, INC.
Copyright ©2005 by Frances A. Karnes
and Kristen R. Stephens-Kozak
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ISBN: 978-1-59363-758-3
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Contents
Series Preface
Introduction
Effective Teaching Strategies:
Sample Philosophical Orientations
Gifted Education:
Recommended Instructional Strategies
Multicultural Education: Recommended Strategies
for Teaching Culturally Diverse Students
Multicultural Gifted Education: One Model
Profiles of Multicultural Teachers
Summary and Conclusion
Additional Resources
Web Sites
Publications
Videos About Social Issues
Appendix I: White Socks Only:
A Literature Unit for Grades
Appendix II: ABC's of Famous African Americans
Appendix III: Maniac Magee
References
Series Preface
The Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education offers teachers, counselors, administrators, parents, and other interested parties up-to-date instructional techniques and information on a variety of issues pertinent to the field of gifted education. Each guide addresses a focused topic and is written by scholars with authority on the issue. Several guides have been published. Among the titles are:
•Acceleration Strategies for Teaching Gifted Learners
•Curriculum Compacting: An Easy Start to Differentiating for High-Potential Students
•Enrichment Opportunities for Gifted Learners
•Independent Study for Gifted Learners
•Motivating Gifted Students
•Questioning Strategies for Teaching the Gifted
•Social & Emotional Teaching Strategies
•Using Media & Technology With Gifted Learners
For a current listing of available guides within the series, please contact Prufrock Press at (800) 998-2208 or visit http:// www.prufrock.com.
Introduction
The 21st century is witnessing an unprecedented change in its demographics, especially in school settings. Like no other time in history, our nation is becoming overwhelmingly diverse, with Hispanic Americans and African Americans increasing in numbers. However, as our nation and schools become more diverse, we have witnessed little demographic changes relative to diversity in gifted education classes, programs, and services. That is to say, culturally and linguistically diverse students (Black, Hispanic, and Native American) are underrepresented in gifted education programs. Further, where diversity is concerned, there is the opposite demographic trend among the teaching profession, which has remained extensively White. These changes—reverse trends and demographics—carry important implications for the field of gifted education relative to changes that may need to be made in policy and practice.
Unfortunately, gifted education has not been proactive or aggressive at responding to issues of underrepresentation and addressing the needs of students from ethnically and culturally diverse backgrounds. Noticeably absent in the discussion of services, programming, and instruction, including differentiation, has been attention to issues of diversity (Ford, 1998, 2002). A review of the gifted education literature on topics ranging from identification to programming points to a picture of homogeneity and lack of differentiation in actual practice. Homogeneity is most blatant in areas of identification, definitions, instruction, and curriculum (Ford, Grantham, & Harris, 1998; Ford & Harris, 1999; Frasier, Garcia, & Passow, 1995; Frasier & Passow, 1994; Passow & Frasier, 1996). For example, even with increasing diversity in the United States, gifted programs tend to be extensively White and middle class. Despite the reality that students of color tend not to perform well on traditional tests, most schools rely extensively on testing alone to identity students as gifted (Colangelo & Davis, 2003; Davis & Colangelo, 2004; Ford, 2004). Regardless of efforts to reverse this pattern, most