ABSTRACT
One of the stations involves a computer game that matches the game to child's skill, one engages students in a real-world letter-writing activity to their pen pals in Japan using word processing. Gifted education is but a small voice among a large number of other voices specifying how different types of children are to be taught and what teachers should know and be able to do. In order to serve gifted students more effectively, to “play nicely with others,” and to be at decision-making table in a district, it is critical that a gifted education specialist seeking to improve classroom practice for children. As a gifted education professional, it is critical to be able to describe the children being served in order to determine common ground with other professionals. In most large school systems, the roles of superintendent, principal, instructional leaders, and teachers are all ultimately measured by student achievement and the needs of these various professionals must be identified.
