Implementing RtI With Gifted Students: Service Models, Trends, and Issues

by Mary Ruth Coleman, Susan K. Johnsen

Overview

Implementing RtI With Gifted Students shares how RtI can fit within the framework of gifted education programming models. This edited book will serve as a reference guide for those interested in learning more about RtI and how it might be effectively implemented to meet the needs of all gifted students. Chapters contributed by top gifted education experts focus on topics including tiered supports and services for gifted learners; screening, assessment, and progress monitoring; evidence-based practices; popular gifted education models that fit within a tiered framework; and diversity. Additional resources for schools include a self-assessment needs survey; guidelines for planning; forms, templates, and timelines for getting started; and rubrics for reviewing implementation fidelity and progress.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781593639501
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/01/2012
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Mary Ruth Coleman, Ph.D., is a senior scientist at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute and Research Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She directed Project U-STARS~PLUS (Using Science, Talents and Abilities to Recognize Students), a Javits Gifted and Talented Student Education Program and project.

Susan K. Johnsen, Ph.D., is professor emerita of the Department of Educational Psychology at Baylor University.

Table of Contents

Foreword James J. Gallagher ix

Preface Mary Ruth Coleman Susan K. Johnsen xiii

Section I Introduction

Chapter 1 Overview of Response to Intervention and Its Application to Students With Gifts and Talents Susan K. Johnsen Mary Ruth Coleman Claire E. Hughes 3

Section II Components of RtI For Gifted Learners

Chapter 2 Screening, Assessment, and Progress Monitoring Susan K. Johnsen Tracey N. Sulak 23

Chapter 3 The Importance of Family Engagement Joy Lawson Davis 47

Chapter 4 Problem Solving: From a Process to a Culture Daphne Pereles Stuart Omdal 67

Chapter 5 Using Data-Driven Decision Making Mary Ruth Coleman Jennifer Job 83

Chapter 6 Evidence-Based Practice Model and Response to Intervention for Students With Gifts and Talents Ann Robinson Mary Kathryn Stein 101

Section III Gifted Education Models That Fit Within Tiered Frameworks

Chapter 7 The Schoolwide Enrichment Model: Responding to Talent Within an RtI Framework Sally M. Reis Nicholas W. Gelbar Joseph S. Renzulli 123

Chapter 8 Response to Intervention and the Autonomous Learner Model: Optimizing Potential George T. Betts Robin Carey 149

Chapter 9 The Integrated Curriculum Model: A Basis for RtI Curriculum Development Joyce Van Tassel-Baska 169

Chapter 10 Recognizing and Nurturing Potential Across the Tiers: U-STARS-PLUS Mary Ruth Coleman Sneha Shah-Coltrane 187

Section IV Special Issues and Concerns

Chapter 11 Culturally Responsive Response to Intervention: Meeting the Needs of Students Who Are Gifted and Culturally Different Donna Y. Ford Michelle Trotman Scott 209

Chapter 12 Twice-Exceptional Learners and RtI: Targeting Both Sides of the Same Coin Cheryll M. Adams Nina Yssel Heidi Anwiler 229

Chapter 13 Remaining Challenges, Limitations, and Concerns Laurence J. Coleman W. Thomas Southern 253

Chapter 14 Future Directions and Opportunities Susan K. Johnsen Mary Ruth Coleman 273

About the Editors 283

About the Contributors 285