GIFTED EDUCATION PRESS QUARTERLY

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SUMMER 2011 VOLUME TWENTY-FIVE, NUMBER THREE www.giftededpress.com I would like to discuss two books which clearly address some important problems in the gifted education field. Harry Roman has written about planning and implementing STEM programs for middle and high school level gifted students, STEM—Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education for Gifted Students: Designing a Powerful Approach to Real-World Problem Solving for Gifted Students in Middle and High School Grades (Gifted Education Press, 2011). He is an environmental engineer and instructor at the Thomas Edison Innovation Foundation in West Orange, New Jersey. The underlying educational philosophy is as follows: “Like all my educational books and articles, I write from the perspective that the world is both inter-disciplinary and multi-dimensional, a viewpoint derived from 40 years of engineering and invention. Throughout my engineering career, I have worked with teachers and students from the second grade to graduate school. STEM thinking comes naturally to me and my profession, so I write about it for middle and high school students with a key emphasis on critical thinking, open-ended and context-based problem solving including plenty of suggestions for classroom activities and design challenges.

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