This book is written for educators—both teachers at home and in school—for those who practice the teaching profession and those preparing to become teachers. It is designed to help educators understand how some children can develop minds that process information quickly, integrating a wide range of ideas and sources, and are able to form relationships in complex and novel ways. These learners can develop extraordinary ideas of profound importance to them and can arrive at solutions in uniquely unconventional ways.

These learners need teachers who can provide environments and experiences that present challenges, enhancing their discovery of the internal and external worlds in their lives. These are the children and young people who possess remarkable abilities to use their minds fully, and who can develop into leaders, inventors, creators, contributors, and fully effective individuals. There are also those we call 'creative children,' whose characteristics and behaviors have not yet developed like those we call 'gifted,' but who show a readiness to develop such abilities.

To understand these gifted and talented students, we must start by learning everything we can about them. How do they become creative? What does a creative or gifted child look like? To succeed in guiding them to develop their abilities more deeply, we must understand how the brain works and how we can enhance its growth and development. We need to recognize the options available to us to help children grow at home and school, know what others have done in the past, and be aware of the choices we have in the present.

The exciting part is that the more we go beyond the daily lessons we must plan, and the more we try to understand what ideal education for developing minds is, the more we will learn to help all children become good learners. In addition, we too will become better teachers, capable of planning important and successful lessons that go beyond those contained within this book.

• Author: Barbara Clark
• Translation: Abeer Mohammed Al-Amouri
• Number of Pages: 671
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Binding Type: Hardcover
• Edition: First
• Print Color: Black
• Dimensions (cm): 17*24
• Weight (kg): 1
• Barcode: 9789957920418