Rebecca L. Mann

Assistant 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

Selected Publications

• 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.

• Mann, R.L. (in press). Teachers of the gifted. In B. Kerr (Ed.) Encyclopedia of giftedness, creativity, and talent. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

• 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 Unpublished doctoral dissertation.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.

Courses Taught

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

Professional Experience

2005-present	Co-Director of the Gifted Education Resource Institute Assistant Professor of Educational Studies College of Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2002-2005	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