Creating Equity and Access for Gifted Learners: Implementing A Problem-Based Professional Learning Experience Using the ExCEL Model [Paperback]

Part 1:?An Introduction to Problem-Based Learning? 1.?Problem-Based Learning: An Ace on First Serve? 2.?What is Problem-Based Learning?? 3.?The Case for Using Problem-Based Learning? 4. Problem-based learning as a means for educational change? Part 2: Professional Learning with PBL? 5.?Effective Professional Learning? 6. Successfully Implementing PBL for Professional Learning? 7.?The ExCEL Model professional learning program? 8. Closing

Creating Equity and Access for Gifted Learners provides an overview of how and why to implement the ExCEL Problem-based Learning Instruction Model as a change initiative in classrooms, and the impact that this model has had on gifted programs.

The authors provide practical solutions to teachers and immerse them in the problem-based learning process which allows the teachers to experience learning from the students perspective which gives them in valuable insight to real -world problem solving and how students think and feel about authentic research and inquiry- based tasks.?

?Dornswalo Wilkins-McCorey Ed.D., Gifted Coordinator, Virginia Beach City Public Schools, USA

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This book addresses an important and urgent issue, underrepresentation in gifted programming.? I will buy this book and most likely buy multiple copies for the content supervisors and advanced academic coaches I supervise. The authors have extensive experience and expertise in this area. This book is unique as it combines the practice application of problem-based learning and the research and evidence that it can be successfully leveraged to find and nurture students from marginalized communities. The comprehensive professional learning chapter is a must read for educators wanting to implement problem-based learning in their classrooms and/or on a larger scale within a schoolã,