Marcia Imbeau

Marcia Imbeau is an associate professor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, where she teaches graduate courses in gifted and elementary education. She is actively involved in university and public school partnerships and teaches in a local elementary school as a university liaison. 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 programs for the gifted, and coordinating university-based and Saturday programs for advanced learners.

Imbeau has served as a board member and member of the executive committee of the National Association for Gifted Children and the Council of Exceptional Children—The Association for the Gifted Division. She has also served as the president of Arkansans for Gifted and Talented Education, a state organization that supports appropriate instructional services for all students. She is currently working on a book publication with Corwin Press concerning quality curriculum and instruction and currently has a chapter in Designing Services and Programs for High-Ability Learners: A Guidebook for Gifted Education titled "Designing a Professional Development Plan." Additionally, she has coauthored a service publication for the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), How to Use Differentiated Instruction with Students with Developmental Disabilities in the General Education Classroom.

Imbeau is a member of the ASCD Differentiated Instruction Cadre, which provides support and training to schools interested in improving their efforts to meet the academically diverse learning needs of their students.

Area of Expertise: Differentiated Instruction