Gifted Education

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Across
  1. 2. The accuracy of a test
  2. 5. Children with disabilities must be encouraged to develop the ability to learn ___________.
  3. 6. intelligence involving extensive knowledge of the living world
  4. 7. intelligence which includes abilities such as pitch discrimination and sensitivity to rhythm, texture, and timbre
  5. 11. Parents' identification with their children
  6. 13. With this type of mindset students believe that their abilities are permanent and they can't do anything about them.
  7. 14. Volunteers should be given the option to take this at the beginning of a unit.
  8. 15. Expecting oneself to do things a certain way or to achieve a high level of acomplishments.
  9. 17. Strategies that supplement or go beyond standard grade-level work, but do not result in advanced placement or potential credit
  10. 21. intelligence including ability to understand the actions and motivations of others
  11. 23. This Intelligence Scale is the most frequently used for the identification of children with learning disabilities.
  12. 24. instruction in which a teacher anticipates and responds to a variety of student needs in the classroom
  13. 25. These are often considered "gold standard" tests
  14. 28. Parents and teachers need to take this word out of their vocabulary at home and at school.
  15. 30. Father of the gifted education movement
  16. 31. The use of reading material. Usually teen or young adult literature, to help students cope with emotional or social problems.
  17. 32. When teachers determine what competencies certain students have and give them full credit for what they already know.
  18. 36. This provides the only basis for identifying gifted students who do not perform well on any test, due to poor test taking habits.
  19. 38. This is an important component of the reversal of underachievement, between parents and teachers
  20. 39. A poor __________ is a primary characteristic of underachievement.
Down
  1. 1. mathematical intelligence
  2. 3. This program consists of college-level courses and examinations for high school students
  3. 4. Also called independent study or correspondence courses
  4. 8. The degree to which the instrument measures what it is supposed to measure
  5. 9. A critical turning point for the underachieving child is the discovery of a
  6. 10. The discrepancy between a measure of potential and actual productivity
  7. 12. Students who have exceptionally high ability in one or more areas of learning while having significant weaknesses in others.
  8. 16. verbal intelligence
  9. 18. Any strategy that results in advanced placement or potential credit
  10. 19. These tests provide an objective basis for determining the levels of information and skills that a child has mastered.
  11. 20. This is the characteristic found most frequently and consistently among underachieving children
  12. 22. bodily intelligence
  13. 25. intelligence in which a person understands their own cognitive strengths and weaknesses, thinking styles, feeling, emotions, and intelligence
  14. 26. low personal control
  15. 27. intelligence involving the capacity to represent and manipulate three-dimensional shapes
  16. 29. Many of the symptoms of _________ disorders can be controlled behaviorally.
  17. 33. This type of motivation is an experience in which students become absorbed in a task
  18. 34. A young person who performs at the level of a highly trained adult
  19. 35. With this type of mindset students understand that their efforts will develop their talents over time.
  20. 37. Act passed in 2001 that targeted boosting the achievement of the lowest-achieving students