Teaching Gifted Kids in Today's Classroom

Strategies and Techniques Every Teacher Can Use

Susan Winebrenner author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Teacher Created Materials, Inc

Published:20th Sep '18

Should be back in stock very soon

Teaching Gifted Kids in Today's Classroom cover

Latest edition of the go-to classroom resource since 1992 for reaching and challenging gifted students.

This fourth edition of the “orange bible” brings fresh updates to the definitive guide to meeting the learning needs of gifted students in the mixedabilities classroom—seamlessly and effectively with minimal preparation time. Included are practical, classroom-tested strategies and step-by-step instructions for how to use them. The book provides information on:

  • Compacting and differentiating skill work and new content
  • Extending reading and writing instruction
  • Planning curriculum for all students at the same time
  • Supporting self-directed independent study
  • Supporting curriculum standards and increasing curriculum rigor
  • Boosting critical and creative thinking skills
  • Using assessments to help students demonstrate what they already know
  • Using technology for accelerated learning and to benefit twice-exceptional (2e) students
  • Serving gifted kids with special needs
  • Managing cluster grouping
Digital content includes a full chapter for parents as well as a PDF presentation for professional development, reproducible forms ready to customize and print for classroom use, and additional extension menus for the primary and upper grades.

An excellent book for both beginning and veteran teachers . . . [that] contains tons of highly valuable information written in a concise user-friendly format. * MiddleWeb *

ISBN: 9781631983726

Dimensions: 279mm x 216mm x 17mm

Weight: 650g

256 pages

Fourth Edition, fourth edition, book with digital content