Rebecca L. Mann
Associate Professor
Department of Educational Studies
Research
Research interests include characteristics, identification, and appropriate instructional strategies for students with high spatial ability; mathematical persceptions of preservice elementary teachers; longitudinal study of former Gifted Education Resource Instititute summer residential program participants.Education
| Ph.D. | University of Connecticut, 2005, Educational Psychology |
| M.S. | Colorado College, 1986, Elementary Education |
| B.A. | Albion College, 1973, Home Economics |
Publications
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Gentry, M. & Mann, R.L. (2008). Total school cluster grouping and differentiation: A comprehensive, research-based plan for raising student achievement and improving teacher practices. Mansfield Center, CT: Creative Learning Press.
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Mann, R.L. (in press). Teachers of the gifted. In B. Kerr (Ed.) Encyclopedia of giftedness, creativity, and talent . Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
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Siegle, D., Moore, M. M., Mann, R. L., Wilson, H. E., & Strulson, A. (in revision). Factors that influence in-service and preservice teachers' nominations of students for gifted and talented programs.
- Mann, R. L. (2006). Effective Teaching Stratgies for Learning Disabled/Gifted Students with Spatial Strenghts. Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, 17, 112-120.
- Mann, R. L. (2005). The Identification of Gifted Students with Spatial Strengths: An Exploratory Study. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. University of Connecticut.
- Mann, R. L. (2005). Gifted students with spatial stregths and sequential weaknesses: An overlooked and under-identified population. Poeper Review 27, 91-96.
- Mann, R. L. (2004). Balancing act: The truth behind the equals sign. Teaching Children Mathematics. 11 (2), 54-57.
Experience
| 2005-present | Co-Director of the Gifted Education Resource Institute
Associate Professor of Educational Studies College of Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN |
| 2002-2005 | < TD>Research Associate-National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, Adjunct Professor, Teaching Assistant, Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT |
| 1997-2002 | Gifted and Talented Coordinator
Bow School District, Bow, NH |
| 1989-1991 | Talented and Gifted Resource Teacher
Academy District 20 Schools, Colorado Springs, CO |
| 1989-1991 | Sixth Grade Team Teacher
Hollis Schools, Hollis, NH |
| 1986-1988 | Third Grade Classroom Teacher
School District 11, Colorado Springs, CO |
Courses
| EDPS 590D | Essential Readings in Gifted Education |
| EDPS 542 | Curriculum and Program Development in Gifted Education |
| EDPS 543 | Teaching Thinking Skills |
| EDPS 545 | Social and Affective Development of Gifted Students |
| EDPS 430 | Creating and Managing Learning Environments |
| EDPS 540 | Gifted, Creative, and Talented Children |
