To Snare the Gifted Mind

1993 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cajetan J. Menke
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Department Head ◽  
Talented And Gifted ◽  
Practical Experiences

In the ensuing article a veteran of many years of teaching homogeneously grouped gifted students discusses the need for creative ways of drawing students into the subjects being presented. The author offers some practical experiences that he has found both useful and helpful in the ongoing struggle to stimulate sharp young minds. At the present time the author is Department Head of the Talented and Gifted Programme at Centennial Regional High School, a large comprehensive secondary school in a suburb of Montreal, Quebec.

Olympiads for Elementary Schools

1985 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 22-24
Author(s):  
George Lenchner
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
School Level ◽  
Gifted Children ◽  
Elementary School Mathematics ◽  
Talented And Gifted ◽  
Mathematics Program ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Local Levels

Mathematics competitions are widely used to promote interest and enthusiasm for problem solving in programs for capable, talented, and gifted students at the secondary school and college levels. Such competitions are available at the national, state, and local levels. However, few competitions are available at the elementary school level. This lack may be related to some shortcomings of the elementary school mathematics program for capable, talented, and gifted children. Among the shortcomings are (1) a lack of agreement on what special topics and extensions of the curriculum are appropriate, (2) a shortage of teachers trained to teach such topics and exten ions where they exist, and (3) a lack of sources for related “good” problems.

Evaluation of a Summer-School Program for Highly Gifted Secondary-School Students: The German Pupils Academy

2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heinz Neber ◽  
Kurt A. Heller
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Summer School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
School Program ◽  
School Students ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Regulatory Strategies ◽  
Cognitive Framework

Summary The German Pupils Academy (Deutsche Schüler-Akademie) is a summer-school program for highly gifted secondary-school students. Three types of program evaluation were conducted. Input evaluation confirmed the participants as intellectually highly gifted students who are intrinsically motivated and interested to attend the courses offered at the summer school. Process evaluation focused on the courses attended by the participants as the most important component of the program. Accordingly, the instructional approaches meet the needs of highly gifted students for self-regulated and discovery oriented learning. The product or impact evaluation was based on a multivariate social-cognitive framework. The findings indicate that the program contributes to promoting motivational and cognitive prerequisites for transforming giftedness into excellent performances. To some extent, the positive effects on students' self-efficacy and self-regulatory strategies are due to qualities of the learning environments established by the courses.

Gender Non-traditional High School Study: Reasons for Choice and Evaluation of Experience

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-66
Author(s):  
Irena Smetáčková ◽  
Petr Pavlík
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Peer Groups ◽  
Male Students ◽  
School Program ◽  
School Study ◽  
Qualitative Thematic Analysis ◽  
Opposite Sex

Career choices of most pupils at the end of the primary school conform to gender norms. Only a few of them continue to study in a field traditionally considered appropriate for the opposite sex. The qualitative study presented here maps the reasons for such choices based on a sample of 25 female and 31 male students who study gender-atypical secondary school program for one to three years. The data were collected using a questionnaire with open-ended items and analysed using the qualitative thematic analysis. The results revealed that the reasons for school choices of boys and girls differ to certain extent. Their situation also differs with respect to the support they receive from their close ones and the acceptance by their classmates. The parents of girls disapproved of their choices more often than the parents of boys. Girls were also ridiculed more frequently by their peer groups.

scholarly journals Sleepmore in Seattle: Later school start times are associated with more sleep and better performance in high school students

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. eaau6200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gideon P. Dunster ◽  
Luciano de la Iglesia ◽  
Miriam Ben-Hamo ◽  
Claire Nave ◽  
Jason G. Fleischer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Research Study ◽  
School Students ◽  
Start Time ◽  
Adolescent Sleep ◽  
Single Intervention ◽  
School Start Times

Most teenagers are chronically sleep deprived. One strategy proposed to lengthen adolescent sleep is to delay secondary school start times. This would allow students to wake up later without shifting their bedtime, which is biologically determined by the circadian clock, resulting in a net increase in sleep. So far, there is no objective quantitative data showing that a single intervention such as delaying the school start time significantly increases daily sleep. The Seattle School District delayed the secondary school start time by nearly an hour. We carried out a pre-/post-research study and show that there was an increase in the daily median sleep duration of 34 min, associated with a 4.5% increase in the median grades of the students and an improvement in attendance.

scholarly journals EFFECTIVENESS OF SCHOOL COUNSELING PROGRAMS ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN KIAMBU COUNTY, KENYA

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (35) ◽  
pp. 58-64
Author(s):  
Lucy Gachenia ◽  
Margaret Mwenje
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
School Counseling ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Counseling Services ◽  
Counseling Program ◽  
School Students ◽  
Counseling Programs

The school counseling program is meant to assist students to deal with psycho-social and behavioral challenges, which normally affect their academic performance. In order to achieve this goal, the Kenyan government has previously committed resources towards establishing counseling programs in schools. The aim of this study was to establish how effective these counseling programs are in assisting secondary school learners in Kiambu County to achieve academically. Primary data was derived from 80 high school adolescents, 8 counselors, and 8 academic Dean of Students who were purposively sampled from 8 schools that were randomly selected. The study was qualitatively done, and self-determination theory was used to guide the study. Data were analyzed for the identification of counseling program characteristics and student improvement indices. These were presented in tables, charts, frequencies, and percentages based on the responses from the respondents. Further, a correlation between the two variables of the study was examined. Findings depicted that 65.7% of the students sampled said that counseling services offered at school satisfied their needs, 74.3% reported an improvement in their academic performance as a result of those counseling services and 87% felt more positive about school life after receiving counseling services. The study concluded that comprehensive counseling programs improved academic performance among high school students. The study intended to inform education planners, principals, and administrators on the role counseling would play in enhancing academic achievement among secondary school students.

scholarly journals Technological competencies required for the intermediate and high school female teachers to use the interactive whiteboard within the classroom

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (22) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mashael Abdulrahman Al-Qaraawi ,  Abu Bakr Yousef Ghannam
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Interactive Whiteboard ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Secondary Stage ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
Technological Competencies

    The current research aimed at identifying the technological competencies required for intermediate and secondary school teachers to activate the use of interactive whiteboards in the classroom. To achieve this goal, the question of technological competencies for middle and high school teachers was answered to activate the use of the interactive whiteboard in the classroom. Based on the objective of the research and its questions، the researcher used the descriptive method for its relevance to the research. The sample included (40) teachers of the intermediate and secondary stage in Al-Fursan Private Schools for Girls in Riyadh who used the Smartboard in teaching. The researcher used the questionnaire to collect the necessary data to answer the study questions. The responses were analyzed using the following statistical methods: frequencies، percentages, arithmetic mean، Pearson coefficient to measure the validity of the internal consistency of the study instrument، and Vacronbach coefficient in order to measure instrument stability. The most important results of the research are that the members of the research sample have three design competencies needed to activate the use of the interactive whiteboard in the classroom to a high degree: the ability to design a lesson، master the techniques of evaluation and the ability to design activities، all using interactive whiteboard. The study also concluded that incentives were given to the teacher who uses interactive whiteboard in teaching, and also to design modern buildings for educational institutions in accordance with the requirements of presentation and use of the interactive whiteboard in the classroom. The study recommended the educating middle and secondary school teachers about the importance of using interactive whiteboard in the educational process at all levels، and also working on attracting highly qualified human cadres for the success of the interactive whiteboard.    

scholarly journals The impact of the use of student guide bag on the trends and professional tendencies of high school students who have learning difficulties in Riyadh city. (Experimental study)

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maysaa Abdullah Ibrahim Al-Ayadi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Learning Difficulties ◽  
School Students ◽  
Riyadh City ◽  
Guidance Programs ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Level Of Significance ◽  
The Impact

The objective of the current research is to identify the effect of using the student's guide bag on the attitudes and professional tendencies of high school students who have learning difficulties in Riyadh city. The researcher used two tools: the student's guide bag and the vocational awareness scale. After the data were collected and statistically analyzed by calculating the arithmetic mean to identify the differences between the pre-test and post-test of the occupational awareness scale, and the ETA box (2). The study found that there are statistically significant differences At a level of significance less than (0.05) among the average responses of secondary school students who have learning difficulties in the tribal and post-application of the vocational awareness scale. There is a high impact on the effectiveness of the student's student bag program to improve vocational awareness among high school students who have learning difficulties To study the need to pay attention to vocational guidance and support materially and morally, and to participate students who have learning difficulties themselves in planning guidance programs.

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