Assistant Professor of Gifted Education University of Montana, Montana
Short description: Roughly twenty-five percent of students in the United States attend rural schools. These schools are disproportionately smaller, more remote, and lesser funded. With these concerns comes a need to re-evaluate gifted education best practices in these settings. This session provides a grounding in research to help you be a more successful practitioner and advocate in these environments.
Learning Outcomes: Participants will:
Learn about the diversity of rural schools and environments and its effects on gifted education practices
Understand the ways in which rural environments necessitate a need to rethink common gifted education practices in that context
Define place-based education and generate examples of applications to a rural gifted education environment