Imbeau Wins State Award in Gifted and Talented Education
Posted on 3/24/2008
Marcia Imbeau, associate professor of special education at the University of Arkansas, received the 2008 AGATE Award of Excellence in February during the annual conference of Arkansans for Gifted and Talented Education.
The group is an independent organization promoting excellence in education, particularly as it relates to gifted and talented children and youth in Arkansas. It's a diverse group that includes classroom teachers, gifted and talented administrators, school administrators, state and local association leaders, researchers, parents, guidance counselors and graduate students. Imbeau is a past president of the organization.
In addition to accepting the award at the meeting in Little Rock, Imbeau made a presentation during the conference's administrator institute titled "Differentiated Instruction – A Closer Look at Complex Instruction."
Imbeau, who teaches graduate courses in gifted education and elementary education in the College of Education and Health Professions, is also involved in the university's public school partnerships as a supervisor of interns in the Master of Arts in Teaching program. Her professional experience includes serving as a field researcher for the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, elementary teaching in the regular classroom, teaching in programs for the gifted, and coordinating university-based and Saturday programs for advanced learners such as Young Scholars.
Imbeau has been a board member for the National Association for Gifted Children and has served as a Governor At-Large for the Council for Exceptional Children – The Association for the Gifted Division.
Working with special education colleagues, she co-authored a text as a service publication for the Council for Exceptional Children: "How to use differentiated instruction with students with developmental disabilities in the general education classroom," Gartin, B.C., Murdick, N.L., Imbeau, M., & Perner, D.E. (2002). Imbeau most recently contributed a section on "Designing a professional development plan" to a publication by Corwin Press called "Designing services and programs for high-ability learners: A guidebook for gifted education," edited by J. H. Purcell and R.D. Eckert.
Imbeau is a member of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development's Differentiated Instruction Cadre, which provides support and training to schools across the nation and beyond interested in improving their efforts to meet the academically diverse learning needs of their students.
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