ABSTRACT

The Primary Education Thinking Skills program (PETS) was implemented in three third grade classes and two kindergarten classes in a Title I school. The PETS program is a Talent Development program designed to teach students critical thinking skills and other gifted behaviors with the expressed goal of the program’s creators that the regular education teacher could then use the student behaviors elicited by the PETS curriculum to recommend them for the gifted screening process. Thus, our focus was to determine teacher attitudes regarding the ease of implementation, effectiveness of the program, and potential changes in their perceptions of high-ability students. These data were collected via semistructured interviews and analyzed qualitatively using content analysis. Results indicated that most teachers found the program easy to implement and perceived it as effective for a diverse group of learners.

摘要

初级教育思维技能计划 (PETS) 在一所 Title I 学校的三个三年级班级和两个幼儿园班级中实施。PETS 计划是一项人才发展计划，旨在教授学生批判性思维技能和其他天才行为，该计划的创建者明确表示，普通教育教师可以使用 PETS 课程引发的学生行为推荐他们进行天才筛选过程。因此，我们的重点是确定教师对实施的难易程度、计划的有效性以及他们对高能力学生的看法的潜在变化的态度。这些数据是通过半结构化访谈收集的，并使用内容分析进行定性分析。