Smith Professor of Education Emerita
College of William and Mary, Virginia
Joyce VanTassel-Baska is the Jody and Layton Smith Professor of Education Emerita and former Executive Director of the Center for Gifted Education at William and Mary in Virginia where she developed a graduate program and a research and development center in gifted education. She also initiated and directed the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University. Prior to her work in higher education, Dr. VanTassel-Baska has served as the state director of gifted programs for Illinois, as a regional director of a gifted service center in the Chicago area, as coordinator of gifted programs for the Toledo, Ohio public school system, and as a teacher of gifted high school students in English and Latin. She is past president of The Association for the Gifted of the Council for Exceptional Children, Phi Delta Kappa, and the National Association for Gifted Children.
Dr. VanTassel-Baska has published widely including 38 books and over 700 articles, book chapters, and reports. Recent books include: Content-based Curriculum for Gifted Learners with Catherine Little (in press), Handbook on Assessment: Identification, Learning Progress, and Evaluation with Susan Johnsen (2022), and Curriculum Planning and Instructional Design (2020) with Ariel Baska. She has also conducted 75 evaluations of school-based gifted programs and served as the editor of Gifted and Talented International, a publication of the World Council on Gifted and Talented, for seven years from 1998-2005.
Dr. VanTassel-Baska has received numerous awards for her work, including five from the National Association for Gifted Children, Mensa, American Educational Research Association, and Phi beta Kappa. She served as principal investigator on 62 grants totaling over $15 million, including eight from the United States Department of Education. She holds B.A., M.A., M.Ed., and Ed.D. degrees from the University of Toledo, an institution that awarded her its Distinguished Achievement Alumna Award in 2003.
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Friday, November 18, 2022
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Saturday, November 19, 2022
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