World Famous Comics: Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom: Strategies and Techniques Every Teacher Can Use to Meet the Academic Needs of the Gifted and Talented (Revised and Updated Edition)
Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom: Strategies and Techniques Every Teacher Can Use to Meet the Academic Needs of the Gifted and Talented (Revised and Updated Edition)
Product Description: With 150,000 copies in print, the original TEACHING GIFTED KIDS is a perennial best-seller. Teachers everywhere call it, "the orange Bible" and turn to it daily to make sure their gifted students are getting the learning opportunities they need and deserve.
Since the first edition was published, author Susan Winebrenner has spent eight years using it with school districts, teachers, parents, and kids across the U.S. and the U.K. this revised, expanded, updated edition reflects her personal experiences and the changes that have taken place in education over the years. Her basic philosophy hasn't changed, and all of the proven, practical, classroom-tested strategies teachers love are still here. But there's now an entire chapter on identifying gifted students. The step-by-step how-tos for using the strategies are more detailed and user-friendly. There's a new chapter especially for parents. And all of the forms in the book are also on CD-ROM (sold separately) so you can print them out and customize them for your classroom.
Since 1992, TEACHING GIFTED KIDS has been the definitive guide to meeting the learning needs of gifted students in the mixed-abilities classroom–without losing control, causing resentment, or spending hours preparing extra materials. This new edition is even better.
Tools you can use tomorrow Sadly, the students who will make the least progress during the school year are our gifted students. With all the energy that teachers spend trying to help our low-achieving students pass the ever more stressful mandated state tests, our high-achieving students can get left behind.
Winebrenner's wonderful resource can help teachers manage the wide range of ability levels in our classrooms, without spending every waking moment designing different lessons.
This should be in every teacher's classroom library. The strategies work with ALL students.
Great Recieved item on time, right when we were told it would arrive. Book in very good condition.
Not a lot of material and very thin. As a teacher in a regular classroom, I wanted some differentiated materials aimed at my GATE kids. My aim was to look and find out how to differentiate my lesson plans so that these gate kids can utilize their higher level skills. Maybe even take a normal lesson and extend it, fun things, and puzzles. However, the substance in the book was very sparse and I was thoroughly disappointed.
YOU NEED THIS BOOK! If you are reading this review, I suspect that you are a teacher. If you are a teacher, you need this book! Every classroom has at least ONE gifted child; one child who finishes his or her work first, goes to a center and blasts through the work there, with ease. I found that the best thing to do with a student like this is to let him or her pick a project that he or she would like to do (example projects are listed in this book). The student then creates and agrees to the terms of the project: for example, he or she may want to read a particular book, create a painting regarding one of the characters, and then present this work to the class. The student would have to adhere to the given timeline, and would have to complete all aspects of the project--knowing that this project will be a part of his or her report card grade (in whatever subject the work is related to).
The terrific thing about this book is that it has created a very do-able, curriculum oriented outline of projects and contracts that gifted students can achieve during a marking period. Sample contracts, as well as copies of contracts that can be Xeroxed are provided.
I used this book every year I taught, and my principal was qutie happy with the fact that the projects were so curriculum friendly.
If you teach elementary-grammar school, you need this book!
Should be on every teacher's desk! Full of practical, reproducible material for teachers of gifted kids. Lots of advice and ideas regarding common gifted curriculum strategies like compacting, learning contracts, differentiation, independent study, and cluster grouping. Directly answers questions teachers (and parents) of the gifted ask most. Highly recommended... a great resource!
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