Project High Hopes Summer Institute: Curriculum for Developing Talent in Students with Special Needs.

Gentry, Marcia; Neu, Terry W.

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ERIC Number: EJ571844

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1998

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Project High Hopes Summer Institute: Curriculum for Developing Talent in Students with Special Needs.

Gentry, Marcia; Neu, Terry W.

Roeper Review, v20 n4 p291-95 May-Jun 1998

Describes a summer institute curriculum used with 27 middle school students with disabilities who were identified as gifted in the visual arts, performing arts, engineering, or life sciences. The curriculum was real world, multidisciplinary, and problem based. Using a creative problem-solving process, students identified problems, developed solutions, and created presentations. (DB)

Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Curriculum, Gifted Disabled, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools, Problem Based Learning, Problem Solving, Special Needs Students, Summer Programs

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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