Tempo - Volume 20 - Leadership and Accountability - Winter-Fall 2000

Sep 15, 2026

Tempo, Volume 20, issues 1-4 (Winter-Fall 2000), is a Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented newsletter structured around four recurring themes: leadership, evaluation and assessment, curriculum issues, and accountability. Each issue features major articles, regular columns by the president and executive director, discussion of related research, Q&A responses, and book reviews. The leadership theme includes contributions on gifted leadership, program development, identification, and instructional strategies, while subsequent issues address program evaluation, portfolios, testing, technology, standards, and accountability. (DB).

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ABSTRACT

Newsletter themes and recurring sections

Major articles and leadership topics

Program evaluation, assessment, and accountability

DOCUMENT RESUME ED 471216 AUTHORCannon,Michael,Ed.TITLETempo,2000.INSTITUTIONTexas Association for the Gifted and Talented,Austin.PUB DATE2000-00-00NOTE142p.;Published four times per year.For Volume 19,see ED437786.AVAILABLE FROMTexas Association for the Gifted and Talented(TAGT),406East 11th St.,Suite 310,Austin,TX 78701-2617(available toTAGT members only).Tel:512-499-8248;Fax:512-499-8264;e-mail:txgifted@yahoo.com;Web site:http://www.txgifted.org/.PUB TYPECollected Works -Serials(022)JOURNAL CITTempo;v20 n1-4 Win-Fall 2000EDRS PRICEEDRS Price MF01/PC06 Plus Postage.DESCRIPTORSAcademic Standards;*Accountability;Computer Uses inEducation;*Curriculum Development;Educational Assessment;Educational Principles;Educational Technology;ElementarySecondary Education;*Gifted;*Leadership;ProgramEvaluation;*Student Evaluation # ABSTRACT Each of the four issues of the newsletter of the TexasAssociation for the Gifted focuses on a theme:leadership,evaluation andassessment,curriculum issues,and accountability issues.Issues usuallycontain theme-related major articles,columns by the Association's presidentand executive director,a column examining related research,answers toquestions,and book reviews.Major articles include:"Leadership and theGifted in the 21st Century"(Frances Karnes and Jane Chauvin);"TeachingChildren To Lead"(Mary Seay);"Understanding and Encouraging LeadershipGiftedness"(Dorothy Sisk);"First Steps:Creating a Quality LeadershipProgram"(Laura Phillips Mackay);"Gifted Hispanic Girls:Education,Support,and Encouragement"(Cynthia Shade);"The Rationale and Validation of theTorrance Test of Creative Thinking"(E.Paul Torrance);"Gifted ProgramEvaluation"(Ernesto Bernal);"Parent Assessment of Giftedness:UsingPortfolios"(Bertie Kingore);"Educating with the Harkness Table"(Tyleer C.Tingley);"Using Testing and Public Information To Make the Case for Giftedand Talented Students"(Chrys Dougherty);"Appropriate IdentificationCriteria:A Self Study"(Bertie Kingore);"Clues from Brain Research forChallenging Gifted Learners"(Barbara Clark);"Teaching beyond theAverage".(Robert Schultz and Margaret Price);"Science,Service and theGifted Learner"(Mary Nied Phillips);"Future Problem Solving:ImprovingSkills"(Kent Hutton);"Gifted Instruction Goes Dot-Com"(Helen Teague);"Internet Resources"(Helen Teague);"Performance Standards for GiftedStudents"(Evelyn Hiatt and Linda Phemister);"Accountability for GiftedStudents:Burden or Opportunity?"(Tonya Moon and Carolyn Callahan);"Standards of Learning and Gifted Education:Goodness of Fit"(JoyceVanTassel-Baska);and "Emerging Giftedness for the LEP Student"(Pamela M.Cooper).(Individual articles contain references.)(DB) | Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made
from the original document. | | --- | ED47 216 Tempo Edited By Michael Cannon Volume 20,Issues 1-4,Winter-Fall 2000 U.S.DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONOflice of Educational Research and ImprovementEDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION D CENTER(ERIC) This document has been reproduced asreceived from the person or organizationoriginatingit. □ Minor changes have been made toimprove reproduction quality. ·Points of view or opinions stated in thisdocument do not necessarily representofficial OERI position or policy. PERMISSIONTO REPRODUCE ANDDISSEMINATE THIS MATERIALHASBEEN GRANTED BY ntire TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCESINFORMATION CENTER(ERIC) 1 BEST COPY AVAILABLE EC 309321 Member,National Association for Gifted Children(NAGC) # Leadership and the Giftedin the 21st Century Frances A.Karnes,Ph.D.The University of Southern MississippiJane C.Chauvin,Ph.D.Loyola University Anew century beckons;a new millennium ap-proaches —who will fashion the dreamsthe dreams that will become the vision for this new age?Who will possess the ability to empower others with thisvision;and who will have the strength to help others turnthis new vision into a reality?Would it not make senseto turn to our most able in our quest

FAQs

Tempo 2000 issues focus on which four main themes?

They focus on leadership, evaluation and assessment, curriculum issues, and accountability issues.

What recurring elements appear in each newsletter issue?

Each issue typically includes theme-related major articles, columns by the association’s president and executive director, a column examining related research, answers to questions, and book reviews.

What types of topics are covered under the leadership theme?

The leadership theme includes articles on leading gifted children, creating leadership programs, encouraging leadership giftedness, identification criteria, and instructional approaches for gifted learners.

Sep 15, 2026

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