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Now from the author of the best-selling How the Brain Learns and How the Special Needs Brain Learns comes a new book dealing with gifted and talented students. How the Gifted Brain Learns helps you turn research on the brain function of intellectually and artistically advanced students into practical classroom activities and strategies.

David Sousa shows how the brain processes information and offers both simple and complex strategies that will help identify and challenge gifted students in your classroom. Building on the latest discoveries in neuroscience, learning, and the nature of intelligence, this book examines why traditional talent-identification techniques are inadequate (and often inaccurate), and presents methods that will allow you to identify giftedness and talent potential with greater accuracy than ever before.

This book will help answer such questions as:

How are the brains of gifted students different? What kinds of strategies are particularly effective for students with particular gifts? What can be done to adequately challenge gifted students in our schools? What can we do to identify and help gifted students who are underachievers? How can we identify and help students who are both gifted and learning disabled?

Schools have a responsibility to provide for the needs of gifted and talented students--to challenge them so that they may reach their fullest potentials. Offering real strategies for real classrooms, How the Gifted Brain Learns is an indispensable tool for all educators--school administrators, teachers, staff developers, preservice students, and even parents who want to better understand their gifted children, and help them reach exceptional levels of performance.

About the Author: David A. Sousa, Ed.D., an international educational consultant, has conducted workshops in hundreds of school districts on brain research and science education at the elementary, secondary, and university levels. He frequently presents at national conventions of educational organizations and serves as a consultant to regional and local school districts across the United States, Canada, and Europe.See David A. Sousa′s How the Brain Learns, The 4-Book Collection

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• Introduction
• What Do We Mean by Gifted and Talented?
• Gifted and Talented Programs in Today's Schools
• Organization of This Book
• A Word About Elitism
• 1 Brain Structure and Learning
• Basic Brain Structures
• Learning and Memory
• Stages and Types of Memory
• Retention
• 2 What Is a Gifted Brain?
• Theories of Intelligence and Giftedness
• Psychological Characteristics of Giftedness
• Effect of Nurture on Intelligence
• Social and Emotional Characteristics of Giftedness
• Gender Differences
• Impact of Praise on Gifted Students
• 3 Challenging the Gifted Brain
• Differentiated Curriculum and Learning
• A Supportive Learning Environment
• Curriculum Content Initiative for Gifted Learners
• Instructional Processes for Gifted Learners
• The Products of Gifted Learners
• Gifted Visual-Spatial Learners
• Avoiding the Pitfall of Academics Versus the Arts
• 4 Language Talent
• Sources of Language Ability
• Identifying Students Gifted in Language Arts
• 5 Mathematical Talent
• Mathematical Thinking and the Brain
• Identifying the Mathematically Gifted
• Teaching the Mathematically Gifted
• 6 Musical Talent
• Why Are Humans Musical?
• What Is Musical Talent?
• Reading and Memorizing Music
• Developing Musically Talented Students
• 7 Underachieving Gifted Students
• What Is Underachievement?
• Some Causes of Underachievement
• Identifying Gifted Underachievers
• Underachievement Among Gifted Minority Students
• Reversing Patterns of Underachievement
• 8 The Twice-Exceptional Brain
• Identifying Twice-Exceptional Students
• Giftedness and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• Giftedness and Autism
• Savant Syndrome
• Hyperlexia
• 9 Putting It All Together
• Identifying Gifted Students
• Developing and Learning Environment
• Strategies for the Gifted in the Inclusive Classroom
• Where Do We Go From Here?
• Conclusion
• Glossary
• References
• Resources
• Index

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This is a superb text covering the multifaceted area of gifted education. It examines the needs of gifted students and provides fascinating insight into the thought processes of gifted children and how the "gifted brain" operates. Each chapter offers the practitioner page after page of suggestions on how to apply the research discussed to educational practice. The applications sections are extremely intriguing and offer more than the traditional "discovery learning" approach to teaching these remarkable children. After reading some of these suggestions, the reader may get the urge to go immediately to a classroom and try some of the teaching strategies with students. Specific musical, linguistic, and mathematical talents are given separate chapters. Issues of minority underrepresentation in classes for gifted children are addressed in a compelling manner. The reader friendly text avoids unnecessary jargon, even though a large part of the first few chapters deals with the physiology and neurology of the human brain. This will be a great addition to the library of any teacher who works with diverse groups of children. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections. J. D. Neal University of Central Missouri

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DR. David A. Sousa is an international consultant in educational neuroscience and author of more than twenty books that suggest ways educators and parents can translate current brain research into strategies for improving learning. A member of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, he has conducted workshops in hundreds of school districts on brain research, instructional skills, and science education at the preK-12 and university levels. He has made presentations to more than two hundred thousand educators at national conventions of educational organizations and to regional and local school districts across the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia.

Dr. Sousa has a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts, a master of arts in teaching degree in science from Harvard University, and a doctorate from Rutgers University. His teaching experience covers all levels. He has taught senior high school science and served as a K-12 director of science, supervisor of instruction, and district superintendent in New Jersey schools. He was an adjunct professor of education at Seton Hall University for ten years and a visiting lecturer at Rutgers University.

Prior to his career in New Jersey, Dr. Sousa taught at the American School of Paris (France) and served for five years as a foreign service officer and science advisor at the US diplomatic missions in Geneva (Switzerland) and Vienna (Austria).

Dr. Sousa has edited science books and published dozens of articles in leading journals on professional development, science education, and educational research. His most popular books for educators include How the Brain Learns , now in its sixth edition; How the Special Needs Brain Learns , second edition; How the Gifted Brain Learns ; How the Brain Learns to Read , second edition; How the Brain Influences Behavior ; How the ELL Brain Learns ; Differentiation and the Brain , second edition (with Carol Tomlinson); and How the Brain Learns Mathematics , second edition, which was selected by the Independent Book Publishers Association as one of the best professional development books. The Leadership Brain suggests ways for educators to lead today's schools more effectively. Dr. Sousa's books have been published in French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Korean, Russian, and several other languages. His book Brainwork: The Neuroscience Behind How We Lead Others is written for business and organizational leaders.

Dr. Sousa is past president of the National Staff Development Council (now called Learning Forward). He has received numerous awards from professional associations, school districts, and educational foundations for his commitment to research, staff development, and science education. He received the Distinguished Alumni Award and an honorary doctorate from Bridgewater State University and an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Gratz College in Philadelphia.

Dr. Sousa has been interviewed on the NBC Today show, by other television programs, and by National Public Radio about his work with schools using brain research. He makes his home in south Florida.