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2.6.5 Teaching for Talent Development: How to Motivate, Engage, and Educate Innovators
Talent-Targeted Teaching and Learning is a brain-based model for talent development that fosters students’ content expertise, metacognition, and creative problem-solving. Educators create and assess talent development goals that target specific aptitudes such as creativity, insight, persistence, or logical reasoning which undergird student engagement, motivation, and achievement. Teachers assess students’ growth using Talent Development Continuum rubrics, and students use corresponding rubrics to self-assess, reflect, and record their progress in their portfolios. Talent-Targeted Teaching and Learning engages and advances students’ talents in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and the humanities by aiming beyond content mastery to the talent aptitudes essential for creating innovators.
Author(s):
Jeanne Paynter
jpaynter@mcdaniel.edu
McDaniel College
United States
Dr. Jeanne L. Paynter currently serves on the faculty of McDaniel College, Maryland where she teaches graduate courses in curriculum and gifted education. Jeanne served as the state specialist for gifted and talented education at the Maryland State Department of Education and was the Coordinator for Gifted Education and Magnet Programs K – 12 in Baltimore County Public Schools, a large urban/suburban district. Dr. Paynter earned a Master’s Degree in Gifted Education and Doctorate in Teacher Development and Leadership from the Johns Hopkins University.