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 * Movers Group 5**


 * Mover Name:** Dr. Joe Renzulli, Pioneer of Gifted Education for 25 years. Dr. Renzuli is the director and developer of the School of Education’s National Research Center for the Gifted and Talented at the University of Connecticut.


 * Basic Work**: Dr. Renzuli's Research has focused on the identification and the development of creativity and giftedness in young people and on organizational models and curricular models for total school improvement.


 * Key Work**: **__School Wide Enrichment Model__**, described as "applying the pedagogy of gifted education to total school improvement". Dr. Renzuli's research promotes a broadened conception of gifted education. His conception of giftedness, with its emphasis on above average ability, creativity, and task commitment, has been instrumental in changing educators' views of intellectual talent.


 * Key Personnel**: Director of the National Research Center of the Gifted and Talented, Chairman UCON Neag Center for Gifted and Talented Development, American Educational Psychologist, Published Author


 * Why/How a mover?** Through using his educational models (Schoolwide Enrichment Model), thousands of teachers have applied Dr. Renzulli's theoretical work to the classroom, where it has become very popular and influential. Renzulli's conception and models, influenced in part by Dewey, are significant because they encouraged people to move away from Spearman's view of a psychometric, unitary intelligence to a more malleable conception that allowed for diverse forms of assessment information.

http://www.education-world.com/a_issues/chat/chat092.shtml http://www.gifted.uconn.edu