It's Valentine's Day in the Hundred-Acre Wood and Pooh and friends come upon Christopher Robin, busily writing a card to someone whose name begins with W - I - N . . . Everyone assumes that the card is for Pooh, until the boy reads out the name Winifred. Christopher Robin has a new friend, a girl name Winifred. Pooh and the others now sadly assume that because the boy has a new friend he no longer needs them. Owl explains that it's just a case of lovesickness, that the boy has been bitten by a love bug. So the gang hatches a plan to capture a love bug that will unbite CR.
Creatively Gifted Students are not like Other Gifted Students
This book focuses on the needs of creatively gifted students and how schools can meet those needs. Creatively gifted students show exceptional levels of creativity. These students may or may not have developed other talents and abilities, yet. Even when their abilities and talents are apparent, the needs of creatively gifted students may not be recognized by current gifted education programs.
This book covers the essentials of needs analysis from the emerging trainer's perspective by providing just the right amount of support and knowledge without going too deep into the subject. The topics covered include when and how to do a training needs analysis; using informal and formal analysis techniques; goal, task and population analysis; and how to develop and present a training plan for management approval. Each chapter includes appropriate data gathering tools. The Skilled Trainer series provides practical guidance for those who've had some exposure to training and would like to take their career to the next level.
In today's rapidly changing world, new social and human service problems emerge constantly, and in order to make good use of resources that are often limited, social service agencies must ensure that their services are truly needed. Needs assessments provide a baseline against which later results can be compared, and may also assist policy-makers in recognizing new trends or problems on the horizon. With so much hinging on their outcome, these assessments must be conducted both accurately and efficiently, and this pocket guide will give practitioners the ability to do so.
