- How the Gifted Brain Learns (2009, Paperback) read online FB2, PDF, MOBI
9781412971737 English 141297173X Identify, understand, and engage the full range of gifted learners with practical, brain-compatible classroom strategies! The updated edition of Sousa's bestseller translates the latest neuroscientific findings into practical strategies for engaging gifted and talented learners. Individual chapters are dedicated to talents in language, math, and the arts, and offer instructional applications for both elementary and secondary classrooms. This reader-friendly guide uncovers: How the brains of gifted students are different How to gauge if gifted students are being adequately challenged How to identify students who are both gifted and learning disabled How to better identify gifted minority students, In the updated version of the best-selling How the Gifted Brain Learns , David A. Sousa brings the latest brain research into the classroom through practical strategies for engaging artistically and intellectually advanced learners. The author describes how to recognize and challenge gifted learners and what to do when gifted and talented students underachieve. Acknowledging that students are often gifted in specific subject areas, separate chapters are dedicated to language, mathematical, and artistic talent. Every chapter features up-to-date classroom examples for elementary and secondary classrooms. Readers will find it easy to immediately apply the research-based lessons in this book by referring to applications provided at the end of each chapter. This book clarifies prevailing myths about the nature of giftedness, discusses the realities of being gifted and talented, and answers questions such as: How different are the brains of gifted students from those of other students? Are schools adequately challenging gifted students today? If not, what can we do about it? How can we identify students who are both gifted and learning disabled, and how can we help them? How can improving programs for the gifted and talented benefit other students? What progress are we making in identifying underrepresented minorities for gifted programs?, Test-driven, test-first, and test-early development practices are helping thousands of software development organizations improve their software. Now, in "Quality Code: Software Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns, " Stephen Vance builds on all that's been learned about test-driven development, helping you achieve unprecedented levels of first-time quality. Using real-world code examples, this guide introduces patterns, principles, and more than two dozen detailed techniques for testing any software system more fully, effectively, and painlessly. Vance presents a conceptual framework to help you focus your efforts and design recommendations for improving testability across the software lifecycle, and also provides hands-on guidance to simplify testing of the full spectrum of code constructs. You'll learn how to choose the best testing techniques for every situation, from the most common scenarios to threading. Two complete case studies put it all together, walking you through testing a brand-new Java application and an untested "legacy" JavaScript jQuery plugin. Whether you're developing cutting-edge code for a new start-up, or maintaining an unruly old system, this guide will help you deliver exactly what you need: quality code. - Simplify unit testing of all your code--and improve integration and system testing- Delineate intent and implementation to promote more reliable and scalable testing- Overcome confusion and misunderstandings about the mechanics of writing tests- Test "side effects," behavioral characteristics, and contextual constraints- Understand subtle interactions between design and testability--and make them work for, not against, you- Discover core principles that guide your key testing decisions- Explore testing getters/setters, string handling, encapsulation, override variations, visibility, singleton patterns, error conditions, and more- Reproduce and test complex race conditions deterministically
9781412971737 English 141297173X Identify, understand, and engage the full range of gifted learners with practical, brain-compatible classroom strategies! The updated edition of Sousa's bestseller translates the latest neuroscientific findings into practical strategies for engaging gifted and talented learners. Individual chapters are dedicated to talents in language, math, and the arts, and offer instructional applications for both elementary and secondary classrooms. This reader-friendly guide uncovers: How the brains of gifted students are different How to gauge if gifted students are being adequately challenged How to identify students who are both gifted and learning disabled How to better identify gifted minority students, In the updated version of the best-selling How the Gifted Brain Learns , David A. Sousa brings the latest brain research into the classroom through practical strategies for engaging artistically and intellectually advanced learners. The author describes how to recognize and challenge gifted learners and what to do when gifted and talented students underachieve. Acknowledging that students are often gifted in specific subject areas, separate chapters are dedicated to language, mathematical, and artistic talent. Every chapter features up-to-date classroom examples for elementary and secondary classrooms. Readers will find it easy to immediately apply the research-based lessons in this book by referring to applications provided at the end of each chapter. This book clarifies prevailing myths about the nature of giftedness, discusses the realities of being gifted and talented, and answers questions such as: How different are the brains of gifted students from those of other students? Are schools adequately challenging gifted students today? If not, what can we do about it? How can we identify students who are both gifted and learning disabled, and how can we help them? How can improving programs for the gifted and talented benefit other students? What progress are we making in identifying underrepresented minorities for gifted programs?, Test-driven, test-first, and test-early development practices are helping thousands of software development organizations improve their software. Now, in "Quality Code: Software Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns, " Stephen Vance builds on all that's been learned about test-driven development, helping you achieve unprecedented levels of first-time quality. Using real-world code examples, this guide introduces patterns, principles, and more than two dozen detailed techniques for testing any software system more fully, effectively, and painlessly. Vance presents a conceptual framework to help you focus your efforts and design recommendations for improving testability across the software lifecycle, and also provides hands-on guidance to simplify testing of the full spectrum of code constructs. You'll learn how to choose the best testing techniques for every situation, from the most common scenarios to threading. Two complete case studies put it all together, walking you through testing a brand-new Java application and an untested "legacy" JavaScript jQuery plugin. Whether you're developing cutting-edge code for a new start-up, or maintaining an unruly old system, this guide will help you deliver exactly what you need: quality code. - Simplify unit testing of all your code--and improve integration and system testing- Delineate intent and implementation to promote more reliable and scalable testing- Overcome confusion and misunderstandings about the mechanics of writing tests- Test "side effects," behavioral characteristics, and contextual constraints- Understand subtle interactions between design and testability--and make them work for, not against, you- Discover core principles that guide your key testing decisions- Explore testing getters/setters, string handling, encapsulation, override variations, visibility, singleton patterns, error conditions, and more- Reproduce and test complex race conditions deterministically