This online curriculum resource offers direction in boosting achievement and encouraging engagement among gifted students. Using Bloom's Taxonomy, it offers specific teaching suggestions for getting gifted learners involved in subject matter and using high-level thinking. It is broken out into theory, practice and evaluation and can be applied to any subject matter in any class.
The ING Unsung Heroes awards program recognizes innovative and progressive thinking in education. The maximum award is $25,000. To be eligible, applicants must be a full-time educator, teacher, principal, paraprofessional, or classified staff member with projects that improve student learning at K-12 public or private schools.
The Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science recognizes the top teachers in mathematics and science from across the country. Up to 108 teachers are chosen for the award every year, and winners receive a signed citation from the President of the United States and a trip to Washington, DC to attend the awards ceremony. Teachers in grades K through 12 are eligible.
101 School Success Tools for Students With ADHD provides the materials and guidance necessary to assist teachers and parents as they empower students with ADHD to become successful learners. Based on field-tested strategies for use with learners with ADHD, the book provides a brief overview of the specific learning needs of these students, as well as a wide variety of tools that teachers can immediately pull out and use in the classroom and parents can use in the home setting.
Attention, teachers of secondary gifted kids: Receive some of the best ideas and lessons developed by master teachers, in this book by Joel McIntosh. Both this and its sequel, 10 More Ideas for Teaching Gifted Kids in the Middle School & High School, feature ideas for starting mentorship programs, teaching history using scientific surveys, producing documentaries, and more.
This book is a valuable resource that includes 50 reproducible templates, student samples, step-by-step directions and strategies to support every learner. The organizers are perfect for note taking, planning, presentation, and review. Includes organizers for reading, writing, math, social studies, and science.
Dr. Carol Strip Whitney presents concepts and techniques to counteract many de-motivating factors gifted children are susceptible to. These factors can lead to depression and academic underachievement. Whitney, along with help from Gretchen Hirsch, offers helpful advice to help spark the motivation in your gifted child or student.
Karen B. Rogers, a leader in the field of gifted education, provides teachers with practical advice for choosing a grouping option that best fits their students and information on how to assess their grouping choices. From grouping by ability, to grouping by interest, to grouping by learning style, the use of grouping in the gifted and regular education classroom has proven to be a successful method of instruction for students. Grouping provides teachers with an effective means of providing gifted students with challenging coursework and access to advanced content, and gives students an avenue to create a peer group of other gifted students.
In this revised edition to 1997's Empowering Gifted Minds: Educational Advocacy That Works, award-winning author Barbara Gilman walks parents and teachers through the process of documenting a child's abilities to providing reasonable educational options year by year. Learn about the problems and solutions for gifted students: Underachievement, Curriculum and Instruction, The Experience of Giftedness, and more.
Written for K–5 teachers, this practical guide corrects misunderstandings in the field of acceleration and provides the tools necessary to effectively determine the most appropriate learning options for gifted students. Through real-life stories, well-known authors in gifted education Joan Franklin Smutny, Sally Y. Walker, and Elizabeth A. Meckstroth, dispel the common myths about acceleration and describe what it is, what forms it takes, and what it can do for gifted learners—intellectually, socially, and emotionally.
In this concise introduction to the topic, Dr. VanTassel-Baska offers many teacher-friendly ways in which acceleration can be employed in classrooms at all levels and in all subject areas. The author offers specific strategies for identifying candidates for acceleration, programmatic approaches to employ, and teacher strategies to use for content acceleration in the classroom.
This book offers a comprehensive review of the gifted education program standards developed by the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC). The standards, which represent professional consensus on essential practice in gifted education, provide a blueprint to encourage and guide schools in developing and evaluating high-quality programming.
Written by Jesse Rachel Cukierkorn, Ph.D., this book provides information for teachers and parents interested in supporting an artistically talented child. It reveals the characteristics of artistically talented students, describes program options, and shares an approach for supporting the affective needs of these students.
Looking for a ready guide for developing and assessing a variety of authentic products in your classroom? If so, then the Developing and Assessing Products (DAP) Tool is for you! Written by Julia L. Roberts, Ed.D. and Tracy F. Inman, this book is about The DAP Tool as a protocol that simplifies the assessment process, encourages differentiation, and takes the ceiling off of learning.
Assessment is at the center of all good teaching, and this book is designed to provide a clear, comprehensive guide to the assessment of students with mild disabilities. This book will give you both an understanding of the assessment process and the concrete, practical skills necessary to assess special students successfully so that you can teach them well.
The goal of all classrooms is to maximize the learning of all students; therefore, correctly assessing what students have learned is an integral part of good instruction. It is critical to take into account a student's level of knowledge, understanding, beliefs, skills, dispositions, and learning styles when planning for good classroom instruction and assessment. In this book, author Carolyn Callahan, Ph.D., provides an overview of the most common and successful assessment methods, including formal and informal assessments, student self-assessments, and preassessment strategies for planning instruction.
This book describes how popular culture, classroom and home environments can shut down the genius of children. Author Thomas Armstrong urges readers to look beyond traditional understandings of what constitutes genius and describes 12 such qualities: curiosity, playfulness, imagination, creativity, wonder, wisdom, inventiveness, vitality, sensitivity, flexibility, humor, and joy.
This textbook focuses on topics educators face in program planning. Find comprehensive information on identifying, guiding the gifted and designing curriculum and more about the field of gifted education
Writers Dona J. Matthews and Joanne F. Foster advises the reader on how to answer the tricky questions, support gifted kids in today's "common" world, and what to tell the kids along the way. This book also examines different ways of supporting optimal development in those who have been labeled "gifted," and those who have not.
The 29 practices included in this book, by authors Ann Robinson, Bruce M. Shore and Donna Enersen, are the result of an extensive examination of educational research on what works with talented youth. The interest in culturally diverse and low-income learners, the means to identify talents, and the need for curriculum that appropriately challenges high-ability youth constitute just a few of the 29 practices.
In this book by Susan Keller-Mathers and Kristin Puccio, children in the primary grades can learn and apply a wide variety of powerful thinking tools for generating options for focusing their thinking. Creative problem-solving tools include brainstorming, braindrawing, forced relationships, and the evaluation matrix.
This workbook contains activities in verbal and figural similarities, and differences, sequences, classifications, and analogies. Skills addressed include reading comprehension; describing shapes, things, and words; following directions; antonyms and synonyms; several types of analogy; deductive reasoning; parts of a whole; mapping and directionality; logical connectives; spelling and vocabulary; overlapping classes; pattern folding; tracking, rotation, and reflection; mental manipulation of two-dimensional objects.
Written by Barbara Gilman, this book focuses on many of the issues involved in assessing and challenging highly gifted learners. A thorough discussion of the ceiling problems encountered on common assessments is included, as well as strategies for teachers and parents in planning appropriate education.
In this book, Frederick Bennett lays out the difficulties present in contemporary American education and reveals why the millions of newly added computers in schools have been largely ineffectual. Bennett describes how computers, if used differently, will enable every student without exception to succeed in school. The key is individualized instruction. A private tutor in the form of a computer will allow each pupil to learn at his or her own comfort rate.
From solving social problems, to dealing with perfectionism, and developing time-management strategies, to mastering goal setting, this book by LeoNora M. Cohen, Ph.D. and Erica Frydenberg, Ph.D. is a guide for gifted kids, their parents and teachers. It has separate sections designed specifically for students, parents and teachers. Click here to read a review of this book.
In a single convenient volume per grade -- beginning with What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know through What Your Sixth Grader Needs to Know -- the seven-volume Core Knowledge Series provides parents, teachers, and children with an engaging, illustrated introduction to the important knowledge outlined in the Core Knowledge Sequence.
This book from Roberta Milgram highlights the role of regular classroom teachers and teachers of the gifted in counseling; provides teachers, counselors, and parents with information about the wide variety of approaches to enrichment and/or acceleration.
This book by Linda Kreger Silverman is an aid for any person related to or working with a gifted child. Ms. Silverman provides specific strategies for individual and group counseling in meeting the unique social and emotional needs of these individuals.
This book provides an opportunity for parents, teachers, caregivers and mental health practitioners to increase their knowledge of children, and to recognize emotional and social problems. After reading this book, the reader will get an expert's view of a child's potential behavioral and emotional problems, and learn to understand their causes.
Curriculum compacting allows learners to move successfully through the curriculum at their own pace. This book focuses on the nuts and bolts of this effective method for differentiating classroom content, process skills, and creative products of gifted learners. In this concise introduction, Dr. Sally M. Reis and Joseph S. Renzulli discuss the research on curriculum compacting and the steps employed in implementing it in any classroom. Case studies of its effectiveness on schoolwide enrichment are also included.
The Curriculum Development Kit for Gifted and Advanced Learners offers exciting new approaches for teachers to differentiate instruction and provide a challenging curriculum that meets the needs of all students in the classroom. Developed by differentiated curriculum experts Sandra N. Kaplan and Michael W. Cannon, this kit is a time-saving tool for all teachers. The three types of curricular materials structured to promote the teaching and learning of the objectives found in the kit are lessons, catalyst cards, and curriculum grids.
Each chapter of this guide by Jeanne Purcell, features the research of leaders in the field of giftedness. From identification to advocacy find stategic plans and resources for designing a program.
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Written by Joan D'Amico and Kate Gallaway, this book offers teachers strategies on how to design and deliver instruction, measure success and get students to work together. Features ready to use language arts activitites that are tied to core curriculum standards.
Written by Joan D'Amico and Kate Gallaway, this book offers teachers strategies on how to design and deliver instruction, measure success and get students to work together. Features ready to use science activitites that are tied to core curriculum standards.
Authors Joan Smutny and S. E. vom Fremd help educators meet the demands of curriculum standards for an increasingly diverse student population with this informative guide that includes forms, charts, samples, and appendices.
Written by Cheryll M. Adams, Ph.D. and Rebecca L. Pierce, Ph.D., this easy-to-use, teacher-friendly book is a must-have for any educator wanting to differentiate instruction for the gifted or regular classroom. Differentiating instruction has become an integral part of classroom instruction, and tiering lessons is a practical, easy, and efficient way to ensure the various needs and learning levels of elementary students are met.
In this guide, Diane Heacox presents a menu of strategies for any teacher faced with a spectrum of student needs and styles. Some are quick and easy--differentiating discussions, creating tiered assignments. Others are more comprehensive--matrix plans for designing curriculum units, "one-sentence lesson plans" that encompass content, process skills, and evidence of learning.
Differentiating Instruction With Centers in the Gifted Classroom provides teachers with tons of ideas and guidance for creating unique classroom centers that will challenge gifted learners and encourage high-level, independent thinking. Implementing centers in the gifted classroom gives elementary and middle school teachers the opportunity to develop in-depth learning experiences on a variety of topics. The book discusses the use of centers in each content area, with suggestions from experts in the content areas and easy-to-implement lessons that go beyond the core curriculum.
This book provides time-saving strategies and lesson ideas created and field-tested by practicing professionals in their own heterogeneous classrooms. These lessons can be used as written or can be modified to meet the needs of a particular classroom.
This book provides educators with time-saving teaching strategies and lesson ideas based on ease of implementation, ability to modify and inherent opportunities for differentiation. Through years of working with teachers the authors, Dr. Cheryll M. Adams and Dr. Rebecca L. Pierce, pass along four classroom components focused on including differentiated learning strategies, anchoring activities, classroom management, and differentiated assessment. The book also includes templates and sample lessons that can be used to develop customized materials, along with comments from teachers who have used the strategies.
Starr Cline and Diane Schwartz focus on how teachers can help their students reach their full potential. The authors discuss reasons for the failure to integrate gifted education into the fabric of the school and the relationships between multiple intelligences philosophy and the curriculum.
An exquisite and compelling statement of what education could and should be. Begins with an insightful discussion of "the dilemma of modern education" in order to provide the reader with a clear understanding of "where she is coming from." She then presents a philosophy of self-actualization and interdependence which represents a "philosophy of both learning and life."
Susan Rakow, Ph.D., focuses on helping teachers, administrators, and parents to understand gifted middle school students, implement effective program models, define the role of the gifted teacher, and more. This book provides specific guidelines for program and curricular planning.
Oppositional and defiant children present a major challenge for teachers and other educators. These students must feel they are emotionally and physically safe in the classroom. The authors show how educators can help students move from despair to hope, from anger to comfort, and from failure to success.
Find strategies for handling various learning difficulties and get a more complete understanding of why your child acts the way he/she does. This book presents a way of thinking about many of the common forms of learning disorders, their recognition, their implications, and their treatment. Specifically, chapters 2-7 describe the areas in which neurodevelopmental dysfunction may hinder learning and performance in school. There are also sections on "demystification," which provides a process that adults can use when talking to their children about the nature of their learning disorders as well as their strengths.
Peter A. Spevak and Maryann Karinch provide techniques on constructively engaging and empowering your child by giving him/her choices instead of ultimatums. The theory behind the techniques: understanding the underachiever’s behavior on an emotional level.
Jeffrey Wilhelm helps educators implement inquiry in the classroom with this book which leads teachers in using research-based techniques to meet mandated content-area standards while engaging students in productive, meaningful learning experiences.
Written by Julia L. Roberts, Ed.D. , this book offers an introduction to structuring enrichment activities that add depth and complexity to a gifted child's learning experience. From a mentorship with a local archaeologist, to a medieval festival, the opportunities for gifted learners to explore a topic in depth are too numerous to mention. This book shows teachers how to provide meaningful enrichment experiences for gifted students. It offers effective strategies for enriching the curriculum and creating in-depth learning experiences both in and out of the classroom.
This book by Dr. Joyce VanTassel-Baska gives tips on identification, education, and understanding of gifted children. Major topics and issues in the education of gifted and talented learners are discussed in detail and is helpful for any parent, student or educator.
This book was conceived to delineate the many facets of gifted individuals and their learning patterns, so that they may be enabled to reach their greatest potential. The authors intend this book to serve as a basic resource for those who view gifted education as a set of rigorous intellectual experiences for youth who exhibit aptitude and interest in matters of the mind.
Educators and parents need practical information they can use now to help them best understand and support the gifted learners in their lives. Because of the unique social and emotional needs faced by gifted learners—not to mention the unique academic needs—teaching and parenting them can be as demanding as it is rewarding. These 36 articles provide much-needed help. They are a “best of” from the last seven years of the Gifted Education Communicator, the national publication of the California Association for the Gifted.
Encouraging creative thinking in the classroom is an exciting component of any effective gifted education program. This guide by Bonnie Cramond, Ph.D. offers basic foundations required for supporting creativity. From establishing the right classroom environment, to using creative teaching strategies, to assessing student outcomes, this book is filled with practical information. The book also includes a listing of competitive contests and programs and an extensive list of resources.
In this book, educators will find a wealth of ideas, curriculum resources, and teaching techniques that promote multiple intelligences, critical thinking, creative problem solving, and problem-and product-based learning. Author Jerry Flack shows teachers how to use fairy tales with a variety of effective teaching strategies and engaging activities, such as making books, writing and editing newspapers, and creating a classroom museum. Versatile and easy to implement, these strategies can be used in a variety of settings.
This book is for teachers and parents who have children of special ability/gifted. This resource takes an accessible, practical and inclusive approach to ways of working with highly gifted children.
This book by Gary A. Davis Ph. D. is a no-nonsense guide to the concept of giftedness in children, and how parents can provide opportunities to cultivate their children's gifts. Chapters address how to identify gifted children, the pros and cons of educational acceleration and common problems or counseling needs among gifted children.
This book by Joan Franklin Smutny pulls together years of research on educating gifted students. The result is a book that incorporates research with practical advice, how-to's, worksheets and application.
Authors Miraca Gross, Bronwyn MacLeod, Diana Drummond and Caroline Merrick deliver an informative resource assisting teachers in developing curriculum enriching activities.
The authors of this book, Miraca Gross, Bronwyn MacLeod and Marilyn Pretorius, offer direct and practical assistance in differentiating the secondary school syllabus to extend and challenge students talented in specific areas, developing your own curriculum units for gifted students, understanding the characteristics and needs of gifted and talented students. These curriculum ideas can be easily adapted to your own needs.
The most influential works on acceleration and grouping practices for the gifted are gathered in this volume, which covers concerns about the effectiveness of such techniques, presents research on the optimal conditions and methods for the utilization of grouping and/or acceleration, and describes effective programmatic initiatives.
This award-winning practical source for parents and teachers discusses the unique social and emotional needs and concerns of gifted students. Includes chapters on motivation, discipline, peer relationships, sibling relationships, stress management, depression, and many other issues that parents and teachers encounter daily. See also A Parent's Guide to Gifted Children for an updated version of this book.
The 3rd edition of this classic text is a comprehensive resource addressing important research-based considerations in gifted education. Many respected professionals have contributed chapters that cover the following topics: conceptions and identification; instructional models and practices; creativity, thinking skills, and eminence; psychological and counseling issues; populations of giftedness; and special topics, including technology, rural schools, and legal issues.
This in-depth textbook, edited by Dixon and Moon, helps educators interested in building effective and comprehensive educational programs for gifted students. Each chapter is written by a leading scholar that researches in the field. Topics include: understanding the gifted adolescent, adolescent issues, instruction and programming options, teacher education and professional development. Click here to read a review of this book.
This book, written by Terry W. Neu, Ph.D., Rich Weinfeld, combine field-tested strategies and advice with case studies of boys across the nation to give smart young boys and their parents a strong guide for ensuring boys' success in school and the future.
This user-friendly guidebook educates parents and teachers about important gifted issues such as working with schools, evaluating classroom programs, forming parent support groups, choosing appropriate curriculum, meeting social and emotional needs, surviving the ups and downs, and much more! The information and useful advice provided make this book an ideal resource both for those just starting out in the gifted field as well as those who are already seasoned veterans.
Profoundly gifted kids often get the least help in school. It’s assumed they’re smart enough to succeed on their own, plus teachers (and parents) feel out of their depth with these unique kids. A blend of personal stories and practical strategies, scholarly articles and entertaining essays from a community of voices—parents, educators, authors, researchers, and other experts—this book addresses the joys and challenges of raising and teaching, living with and understanding exceptionally gifted kids of all ages.
High-Tech Teaching Success! A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Innovative Technology in Your Classroom gives classroom teachers exactly what they're looking for: advice from technology education experts on how the latest tools and software can be implemented into lesson plans to create differentiated, exciting curriculum for all learners.
The Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development (ASCD) published this book designed to help every teacher who chairs a department, leads a committee, manages a team, coordinates a program, or mentors other teachers to accomplish basic leadership tasks with speed and precision. Filled with tips and how-to's that are left out of most teacher education courses and inservice programs, the guide covers formal and informal tasks that teacher leaders at every grade level are expected to know but rarely do.
This book by Majorie Frank is a resource writing book for teachers, or homeschool parents, etc. who are trying to teach children how to write. It contains activities to inspire young writers to write, revise and edit. There are many ideas on assessing student growth.
This book is a great resource for anyone interested in teaching or understanding the philosophy of multiage instruction. The first section deals with the underlying research and history regarding graded and non-graded classrooms. The authors offer clear and convincing arguments for multiage instruction. The middle is how to change from a graded to a multiage classroom or school. The last section has teaching strategies and advice for managing the organized chaos of a multiage classroom, or any classroom where a teacher wishes to differentiate curriculum.
Make grammar fun by using this book from Brad Newton. Thirty creative, improvisational activities are included to help kids learn grammar, punctuation, critical thinking and problem solving. Children in grades 2-10 will enjoy Newton's approach for developing foundational language skills.
Allow your gifted students to study a high-interest topic with depth and complexity. Written by Susan K. Johnsen, Ph.D. and Krystal Goree, this book offers the advice you need to help your gifted students explore important content and show their learning in creative and innovative ways. From selecting a topic, to using innovative research strategies, to reporting results in an interesting way, this book shows you how to help your students succeed at independent study.
Karen Isaacson and Tamara Fisher share comical stories of children and teenagers in order for the reader to understand and appreciate the intellectual and emotional lives of gifted students. They cover key concepts such as: Curiosity is a powerful motivator for learning; Excellent teachers noth follow and lead their students; Learning happens when learners are inspired, not when they are admonished; and, Good teachers help students develop disciplined minds without overcoming students with discipline.
For parents and educators, this book delineates methods of addressing the needs of mathematically talented students younger than 12. The approaches described are based on the authors’ experiences with hundreds of talented students. They discuss educational options allowing students to move systematically through the elementary math curriculum while matching the curriculum to the students' abilities and achievements. The book includes problem sets from the Mathematical Olympiads for Elementary Schools as well as practical ideas for classroom teachers, mathematics mentors, and parents.
This collection of articles from Gifted Child Today (compiled by Susan K. Johnsen and James Kendrick) were selected specifically for the teacher who is searching for ways to serve students who are gifted in English/language arts.
Janet W. Lerner and Frank Kline provide a comprehensive overview of this complex subject by covering theoretical approaches within the field, procedures for assessing and evaluating students, skills in the art of clinical teaching, teaching methods and strategies, and requirements of special education laws.
This book by Gloria Frender delivers some great tools to help students achieve success in both school and life. Practical hints are useful to parents, teachers or anyone wanting a hands-on guide on "learning how to learn."
Written by Jill L. Adelson, Ph.D. and Hope E. Wilson, Ph.D., this book pinpoints a crippling state of mentality among many kids today—the need to be absolutely perfect—and gives parents and teachers the guidance and support they need to help children break free of the anxieties and behaviors related to perfectionism.
Educators can enhance their reading programs with fun titles while meeting the needs of advanced K-6 readers. Author Teresa Smith Masiello is a Gifted and Talented Specialist for the Virginia public school system. Activities include learning centers, graphic organizers. literature binders and more!
Deborah L. Ruf divides the content of this book in to three parts dealing with: Identifying characteristics of giftedness, levels of giftedness and educational options and school issues. This reference can help someone who is not professionally trained in giftedness issues, bridge the gap between the real child and the child's IQ. Click here to read a review of this book.
This book offers teachers numerous concrete, easy-to-use teaching strategies to help gifted students develop socially, emotionally, as well as intellectually. Topics include resolving conflicts at school and at home, managing stress, and handling feelings of "differentness." Teachers will also find helpful guidelines in dealing with parents, administrators, and attitudes about gifted education.
This book accompanies Natural Education and is a guide to the teaching strategies, methods, and materials required for the Natural Education approach. By 1916 the author, Winifred d'Estcourte Sackville Stoner, had organized Parent-Teacher Natural Education Study Circles to promote her methodology.
This Gifted Child Today Reader by editors Susan Johnsen and James Kendrick, offers information about how to differentiate for mathematically gifted students, as well as tried-and-true instructional strategies to employ, including tiered lessons, distance learning, and activities combining architecture and math.
This text, first written in 1970, treats mathematics as a language, wholly within each human being's grasp to discover and learn. Chapters are broken up into individual lessons, enabling the book to be used for multiple students at different levels and abilities.
This book shows us how, with an understandable ten step program for home and an equally straightforward program for school, children with attention or behavior problems can succeed with the help of firm, loving parents and teachers. Jim Fay, Foster Cline and Robert Sornson have been sharing the skills of parenting through Love and Logic for over 20 years.
The book focus on differentiating instruction for gifted learners. Sections include: characteristics and needs of gifted learners, instructional planning and evaluation, strategies for best practices, supporting and enhancing gifted programs. The book also contains lists of up-to-date books, teaching materials, websites and other resources. Contributing authors include: Carolyn M. Callahan, Sandra Kaplan, Sally Reis, Julia Link Roberts and Joyce VanTassel-Baska.
Sal Mendaglio brings together a group of contributing authors who share in detail their approaches to counseling clients who are gifted and talented. This book is designed to help interested professionals, as well as those in preparation programs, conduct effective counseling techniques with highly able clients.
James Bellanca, Carolyn Chapman and Elizabeth Swartz designed this book to assist teachers in modifying assessment practices by leading the reader through the process that guides him/her through multiple intelligences and assessment practices. The authors do this by showing educators how to devise specific performance standards for each intelligence and easily apply them directly in the classroom. Also included are sample lessons that target the intelligence.
This book by Susan K. Johnsen Ph.D. details six standards that address the areas critical to effective teaching and learning, along with suggestions for implementing each one. The gifted education programming standards are focused on student outcomes that address both cognitive and affective areas. Aligned to each of the outcomes are research- and practice-based strategies known to be effective for this special population of students. The book includes sample assessments of student products and performances, which will assist schools in developing program and service evaluation benchmarks.
This book (450 pages) contains approaches and actual subject matter for delivering a superior K-5 education. It describes not only WHAT to teach, but also HOW to teach it using hundreds of hands-on activities, and much more.
This book is the cornerstone upon which to build any Suzuki-oriented library. In it the author presents the philosophy and principles of Suzuki's teaching methods. Through the examples from his own life and teaching, Suzuki establishes his case for early childhood education and the high potential of every human being, not just those seemingly gifted. Written by Shinichi Suzuki, translated by Waltraud Suzuki.
A handbook of lessons which integrate teaching thinking skills into instruction--language arts, writing, science, math, social studies, personal problem solving, and enrichment. The central feature of all lessons is the use of graphic organizers to illustrate how information is related.
This book is about the roots of dyslexia and offers parents and educators hope that children with reading problems can be helped. For the one in every five children who has dyslexia and the millions of others who struggle to read at their own grade levels—and for their parents, teachers, and tutors—this book can make a difference.
The MESA Series combines essential pre-algebra topics with exciting hands-on science explorations to motivate students in both mathematics and science. This book for ages 4-8 uses materials and group collaboration to solve open-ended problems. Students make connections between classroom and real-world mathematics and science. These easy-to-use Teacher Resource Books include activity overviews, background information, reproducible activity masters, and assessment strategies.
This thought-provoking book by Miriam Adderholdt, Ph.D., and Jan Goldberg explains the differences between healthy ambition and unhealthy perfectionism and gives strategies for recognizing the symptoms. Learn how to: Identify what perfectionism can do to your mind and body, Recognize what perfectionism can do to your relationships, Set reasonable standards for yourself, Take positive risks and more. This book can also provide adults insight into how their behavior and expectations can contribute to perfectionism in the teens they parent and teach.
This book, written by Gail Ryser and Kathleen McConnell, helps educators and gifted specialists identify gifted students and then provides ideas on gifted instructional techniques and strategies. This tool kit allows parents to not only buy the book, but also offers evaluation forms and updates the materials periodically.
This book by Matt Tincani, Preventing Challenging Behavior in Your Classroom: Positive Behavior Support and Effective Classroom Management, focuses on practical strategies to prevent and reduce behavior problems and enhance student learning, particularly Positive Behavior Support (PBS).
This book is an experts guide to gifted education, and is part of the essential readings in gifted education series. The topics of this book include gifted education and the major issues, trends, and various teaching methods influencing the field.
Written by Felicia A. Dixon, Ph.D., this book is designed to be a reference for service and program options for practitioners, administrators, and coordinators of gifted education programs. As such, it is a companion to the lengthier and more in-depth The Handbook of Secondary Gifted Education. The first part focuses on the gifted adolescent, including suggestions for academic, personal/social, and career exploration best practices. The second part explicates programmatic offerings available for gifted secondary students, such as AP and IB programming, distance learning, magnet and other special schools, study abroad, and early entrance to college options. The final section moves the discussion from “what is” to “what could be” for high-ability adolescents.
Learn to generate classroom or small group discussions that challenge students to think critically and creatively. Elizabeth Shaunessy, Ph.D. offers classroom-tested strategies for developing questions and activities that challenge students to think in new ways. Create a mutually respectful classroom climate and design appropriate questions to elicit higher level thinking from your students.
Jaime Castellano and Eva Díaz offer a comprehensive overview at the interface between bilingual/multicultural/ESL education and gifted education. The authors have collaborated to create a book that bridges research and practice and has far-reaching implications for educators at all levels as culturally and linguistically diverse students continue to impact public education.
This book by Dave Marks provides parents and educators ideas for discussing fiction with their children. The goal of this book is to help parents teach their children to enjoy reading.
Written by Karen Rogers, this is a research-based book that discusses acceleration of students, grouping within the school setting, and program provisions both in and outside of school. Rogers spells out and categorizes ways for schools, teachers, and parents to meet the needs of gifted children, including which students will benefit from particular instructional delivery methods and how each student need can best be addressed. Click here to read a review of this book.
Part of The Critical Issues in Equity and Excellence in Gifted Education Series, this concise guide provides an introduction to the various types of out-of-school programming recommended and appropriate for gifted and advanced learners. VanTassel-Baska includes overviews of mentoring programs, residential schools, summer opportunities, and distance learning. Readers can learn about alternative services for teachers, parents and gifted education program directors. Click here to read a review of this book.
This book by Karen Andreola features an oral approach to teaching the basics of English grammar. This approach is particularly attractive to families homeschooling gifted children, since gifted children often have an aversion to written drill and practice activities. While the books are designed for students in the 4th through 8th grades, the grammar program can be conducted with children of a variety of age levels at once; students may accelerate in the program as fast as they are able to master the material.
Written by Barbara Kerr and Sanford Cohn, this book explores the relationship between being highly gifted and being male. The book cites research and case studies showing that many gifted boys don't live up to their potential and suffer social isolation, having to choose between excellence and "normality." Click here to read a review of this book.
From preschool to college dating, bright young girls and women endure countless challenges and opportunities. Written by Barbara Kerr and Sanford Cohn, this book explores many of these obstacles and offers practical advice for parents and teachers on how to help gifted girls grow and succeed. Click here to read a review of this book.
Parents and teachers of gifted students with learning disabilities should be grateful for this definitive work on "conundrum kids" - the superb writer who can't add, the talented speech maker who can't write legibly. Chapters on young children provide practical suggestions and ideas for parents trying to decide when the child should start school and teachers trying to cope. The work also covers students up through college and deals with the topics of visual learning, motor functioning, auditory learning, language and learning, and psychological problems. Strategies for dealing with standardized tests and conquering the world of college are also included. Click here to read a review of this book.
As a classroom teacher, you play an active role in your students' social and emotional development. This guide by Stephanie K. Ferguson, Ph.D. offers useful advice and suggestions for classroom teachers seeking to support the emotional growth of the gifted children in their classroom.
A comprehensive coverage of human exceptionalities. This author, with a Ph.D. in the areas of human learning, child development, and behavioral disabilities, presents an emphasis on inclusion in this book. There are chapters on transition, multicultural consideration, and use of technology. See pages 315-361 for People who are gifted and talented by Julia Link Roberts.
Developed through a joint effort between Prufrock Press, Inc. and the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), this book acts as the reference for anyone involved in gifted and talented staff development. Facilitators for gifted programs must be able to plan, implement and evaluate staff-development experiences for a variety of school personnel and support role groups.
This book by Carolyn Coil, shows how to put differentiation into practice with practical, time-saving methods. Coil provides 49 ready-to-use differentiated topic lessons and units that include hundreds of activities. From map skills and space exploration, to early settlers, this wonderful resource provides you with the hands-on lessons and units that can be used right away or modified to meet special requirements.
This book from Julia L. Roberts, Ed.D. and Tracy F. Inman offers practical strategies that allow all students to learn at appropriately challenging levels and make continuous progress by focusing on their various levels of knowledge and their willingness to learn.
This book covers educational strategies for teaching/homeschooling, focusing on instruction that is responsive to kids' interests and learning needs. It also has an appendixes that includes lists of educational aids, such as books, magazines, and journals, curriculum guides and professional journals.
In this book, Kevin D. Besnoy, Ph.D takes an in-depth look at the various learning disabilities and difficulties some gifted students face, provides practical tips for accommodating and planning instruction for these students, and gives an overview of federal law related to this population.
This book aims to help those who live and work with exceptionally able children of all ages, by raising awareness of what it is like to grow up "different". It considers the children's social and emotional development and offers suggestions on how to provide suitable learning environments. The book should be of interest to parents and teachers, and professionals who support the work of schools. The first edition of this book was published as "Helping the Child of Exceptional Ability".
This book by Julia Roberts, Ed.D. and Julie Roberts Boggess, Teacher's Survival Guide: Gifted Education, covers topics essential to gifted education teachers, including tips and strategies for recognizing and identifying giftedness, encouraging creativity, and providing the multiple opportunities and resources gifted kids need.
This book by authors Cynthia G. Simpson Ph.D., Vicky G. Spencer Ph.D., Jeffrey P. Bakken Ph.D. and titled, Teacher's Survival Guide: The Inclusive Classroom, includes tips for classroom success and advice from experienced educators who work in inclusive classrooms and provides practical information for understanding mixed-ability classrooms.
This Gifted Child Today reader, by Susan Johnsen and James Kendrick, covers some of the most important issues facing gifted and talented girls during their school years, from elementary school through college. Included are specific chapters on counseling and classroom strategies for help ensure these students' future success.
Written by Donna Y. Ford, Ph.D. and H. Richard Milner, Ph.D., this guide offers practical advice for building gifted education programs that serve a rich diversity of students. This book features an overview of multicultural gifted education, effective teaching strategies and best practices that support a diverse population of students, and an effective model for building a diverse, successful gifted program. The book also includes a sample curriculum and an extensive listing of print and Web-based recommended resources.
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.
This Gifted Child Today reader by Susan Johnson and James Kendrick is filled with practical classroom ideas, discussions of identification and classroom management. Both authors are professors at Baylor University in the fields Educational Psychology and Communications.
A recognized expert on gifted education and teaching in mixed-ability classrooms, Susan Winebrenner, presents practical, easy-to-use teaching methods, strategies and tips. Her tips help teachers differentiate the curriculum in all subject areas to meet the needs of all learners-including those labeled "slow," "remedial," or "LD," students of poverty, English language learners, and others who struggle to learn.
A classic textbook divided into three general parts: the gifted child and the changing school program, content modifications and information-processing strategies. This book is meant to help future teachers examine the characteristics of gifted students and presents methods of modeling the classroom curriculum to meet the needs of these gifted students. This thoroughly updated edition gives the latest information, new insights, expanded coverage, and additional pedagogy, while retaining the comprehensive scope and excellent writing that have made this a leading text in the field.
In this workbook, Gary A. Davis provides activities and excercises for teaching students ages 9-15. Objectives and discussion questions for more than 50 lessons are included. Pages are reproducible and include checklists, quizzes and word searches. Davis assists educators in discussing universal values using creative lesson plans, questions, and role-play.
This book discusses proven, practical ways to recognize and nurture young gifted children and create a learning environment that supports all students.
A book about the learning difficulties presented by current teaching methods, which result in short term memory and poor ownership of material by the student. Good for rethinking teaching methodology.
In today’s standards-driven era, how can teachers motivate and challenge gifted learners and ensure that all students reach their potential? This book provides a compelling answer: the Schoolwide Cluster Grouping Model (SCGM). The authors, Susan Winebrenner and Dina Brulles, explain how the model differs from grouping practices of the past, and they present a roadmap for implementing, sustaining, and evaluating schoolwide cluster grouping.
This book written by Allison Zmuda and Mary Tomaino helps readers consider the main concepts surrounding creative teaching and ways of helping students take ownership of their learning. It provides insight into what it takes for teachers to learn about, work with, and benefit from standards.
Written by Etta Kralovec and John Buell, this book discusses the adverse effects of homework, and raises questions on whether it contributes to a child's intellectual development, its impact on family life, and whether valuable experiences are being lost to homework. Useful to parents whose profoundly gifted children are in the public school system.
This text, by Linda Agler Sonna, Ph.D., gives parents and educators great ideas on how to make sure students complete their homework. She covers several topics, including how to recognize homework problems, making a commitment, giving praise and avoiding conflict.
Professor Alexinia Baldwin explores the many ways in which giftedness (intellectual potential) has been overlooked because of an individual's cultural group, handicap, or challenging condition. Baldwin presents the reader with practical suggestions to help provide a more appropriate education to develop the intellectual strengths of these children.
Encourage students to excel in their areas of interest and talent by building a mentor program. In this comprehensive "starter kit," you will find methods for helping students identify their areas of interest, strategies for recruiting effective mentors, ideas for helping nurture a mentor relationship, and systems for growing your mentor program. The kit includes all the material you will need to develop your own school-wide mentoring program. This is a complete "nuts and bolts" program that has been used for more than 10 years in schools across the country by teachers, counselors, and administrators wishing to offer their students a strong mentor program.
Written by Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman, this book offers parents and teachers the tools to teach children of all ages life skills that transform helplessness into mastery and bolster self-esteem. Learning optimism not only reduces the risk of depression but also boosts performance in school, improved health, and provides children with the self-reliance they need as they approach adolescence and adulthood.
This handbook is a great resource for educators and parents. Authors Tomlinson, Kaplan, Renzulli, Purcell, Leppien, Burns, have given a new outlook on developing curriculum and instruction for gifted students by presenting heavyweight curriculum by well known leaders in gifted education.
From diagnosis to developmental strategies to how-to techniques, this book by Regina Richards is the definitive source on students who have difficulty with reading and writing. Offers detailed information on both dyslexia and dysgraphia plus hands-on strategies for decoding and encoding, sound/symbol correspondence, spelling, written expression, teaching cursive writing, and much more.
John Philo Dixon decribes ways to identify spatial children by addressing their cognitive perception and offers advice on methods of teaching in the classroom.
Written by Jim Delisle and Barbara Lewis, The Survival Guide for Teachers of Gifted Kids, uses the experience of gifted educators to give teachers insight on working with gifted students.
The book discusses: identifying and evaluating gifted students, various plans and programs that can be used to teach the gifted, and techniques to develop network support in schools that often suffer from under funding.
The National Education Association (NEA) published this book to assist educators, school districts and parents who are working to meet the needs of children who are both gifted and have special needs or learning disabilities. Developed by a workgroup of experts in gifted education and special education, this compilation illustrates the importance of awareness, knowledge and proper identification guidelines.
From animations to WebQuests, this book's second edition by Frances A. Karnes, Ph.D. and Kristen R. Stephens, Ph.D. features all new products that promote the development of 21st-century skills in students. This new edition discusses how the skills and content gained from the development of products can be aligned with state and national standards. A special section is dedicated to how teachers can nurture the habits of the mind necessary for successful product completion. This book offers a step-by-step introduction to using creative projects in your classroom confidently.
In their book, Susan Baum and Steven Owen offer valuable information on identifying and meeting the needs of gifted and learning disabled (GLD) young people. They also stress the fact that these students require special attention, and it is vital that schools pay attention to the gifts as well as the learning difficulties.
Howard Glasser and Jennifer Easley unveil an amazing set of strategies developed specifically for children with ADHD and other challenging behaviors to facilitate parenting and classroom success. These methods have helped thousands of families to transform their child from using their intensity in primarily negative ways to using their intensity in beautifully creative and constructive ways. This approach has also helped teachers and other school personnel to have a dramatically positive effect on all children.
This book titled, Twice-Exceptional Gifted Children: Understanding, Teaching, and Counseling Gifted Students, provides an overview of who these students are, how teachers can tap into their strengths and weaknesses, and what educational strategies should be implemented to help these students succeed in school and beyond.
This book by Marlene Bireley and Judy Genshaft is from the Education and Psychology of the Gifted Series published by Teacher College Press.
This best-seller by Barbara Meister Vitale, provides sixty-five practical, easy-to-follow lessons to develop the much ignored right-brain tendencies of children. Her methods have been successfully demonstrated at workshops, in-service training sessions, and at several major educational conventions nationwide.
This book edited by Kiesa Kay brings together perspectives from educators, parents, researchers, and students about what works and what doesn't for twice exceptional students. Many asynchronous learners exist in the profoundly gifted population, and in addition to chapters by well-known researchers, the book contains heartfelt essays by parents and teens.
This informative collection of teaching units, by Diana Brigham, Jessica Fell, Constance Simons, Kathy Strunk and Anthony Yodice, combines skills from the disciplines of language arts, math, science and social studies. A focus on active (rather than passive) learning is evident; teachers who adhere to a constructivist interdisciplinary approach are sure to find this useful. This gifted-specific book is designed for students in grades 2-8. Click here to read a review of this book.
Dr. Linda Kreger Silverman delivers a blueprint for parenting, teaching and living with these delightfully different beings. It is also a manual for discovering and honoring your own hidden gifts.
Gifted students are particularly skilled at becoming technologically literate and solving problems in creative ways using technology. From computers and the Internet, to video and sound editing software, to new research tools, education for gifted children in the 21st century offers exciting opportunities. Let this book by Del Siegle, Ph.D. show you how to incorporate these technologies in your classroom.
Parents, teachers and youth leaders will enjoy teaching character development using this creative workbook by Gary A Davis, Ph.D. Activities covering values such as: Life Goals, Accepting Differences and Earning Respect. He asks students, ages 9-15, to think for themselves. Lessons progress from easy decisions and choices to those with more serious long-term consequences.
Looking for ways to differentiate your instruction to meet the needs of gifted visual-spatial learners? Visual-spatial learners are students who show advanced abilities with computers, maps, construction toys, and puzzles. These students think outside the box and demonstrate tremendous empathy and compassion. Too often, traditional classroom teaching strategies do not meet the needs of these students. By incorporating visual-spatial strategies to help students learn, you can more effectively reach every student. The techniques outlined within these pages help all learners succeed—regardless of their preferred learning style.
Sylvia Rimm, Ph.D., one of the leading experts in the underachievement of gifted students, looks at the various causes of underachievement, discusses the characteristics of gifted underachievers, and provides educators with solid advice on combating underachievement in this population. This guide offers guidance for understanding the pressures students face in school and at home, motivating students for success, adjusting curriculum to engage these students, improving the self-concept of students, and working with parents to reverse the patterns of underperformance.
Author Michael S. Matthews, Ph.D. introduces educators to the complexities and challenges of providing appropriate educational experiences for gifted English Language Learners. This unique, comprehensive book guides educators toward identifying gifted students in this population, including a look at nonverbal and Spanish-language testing, and gives advice for integrating these students into any gifted program.
This article by Raymond Ravaglia, J. Acacio-de-Barros, and Patrick Suppes (of Stanford University) describes two college-level introductory courses in physics, with calculus prerequisites, that are entirely computer-based.
This article link is an excerpt from Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis from the University of California, Berkeley. The article outlines some general strategies, then offers more detailed and specific suggestions, including how to structure courses and incorporating instructional behaviors among others. These tips are contructed to be relevant to the GT population.
This article by Dr. Tracy Riley of Massey University in New Zealand, outlines a theory for planning gifted and talented learning experiences.
This article discusses the various questioning techniques used by teachers of the gifted and students who are gifted. Questioning is a valuable part of the teaching-learning process because it enables participants (teachers and students) to establish what is already known, to use and extend this knowledge and then to develop new ideas. It also provides a structure to examine ideas and information.
This article by Robert Harris covers many common tips for motivating children. The author goes a step further by examining motivation as it relates to baseball. The result is a novel look at motivating students.
This website hosted by the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, expresses the concerns of a teacher for her gifted and talented students; they seem to become passive thinkers. Read more to discover her solutions.
Geared toward nine to fourteen year olds, FACES encourages young readers to build their critical thinking skills as they learn to look at other cultures - and their own - in new perspectives. Photographs, maps, time lines, activities, and contests all add interest as children roam the earth in their reading, one theme at a time.
This periodical offers information on issues related to gifted children for parents, teachers and administrators. Topics such as teaching strategies, building effective gifted and talented programs and working with learning-disabled gifted children are often covered. Journal articles also offer advice on identifying gifted children, building effective gifted education methods in specific subjects and much more. In addition, some of the nation's most respected gifted education experts share their knowledge in regular columns.
The Journal for the Education of the Gifted (JEG) is committed to the analysis and communication of knowledge and research related to the field of gifted education. JEG is the official publication of The Association for the Gifted.
In Paths of Learning, educators, parents and others write about the things that truly matter in teaching and learning: caring communities, a sense of place, values of peace, human rights, and sustainability, and respect for learners' own passions, hopes, and quest for connection and meaning.
A newsletter that features ideas for teaching, learning, and enjoying math, with an onsite collection of elementary and middle school activities, games, and problems. Classroom activities focus on creative problem solving, hands-on thinking, math manipulatives, and cooperative learning, and are tied into the NCTM Standards.
MU now offers a Master of Education Degree in Gifted Education. The curriculum is appropriate for both teachers who provide instruction in special programs for the gifted and those who teach in a regular classroom where gifted children are mainstreamed. Courses for this program are held off-campus.
This online catalogue offers information regarding training and products for the 6+1 Trait Writing framework, a powerful way to learn and use a common language to refer to characteristics of writing as well as create a common vision of what 'good' writing looks like. Teachers and students can use the 6+1 Trait model to pinpoint areas of strength and weakness as they continue to focus on continued writing improvement.
Aventa Learning, a top educational technology company, has an extensive K-12 online curriculum, including 17 Advanced Placement courses. Classroom resources, independent study courses, credit recovery and test preparation supplements are available for students as well. There are also sections for teachers and administrators, which contain a great deal of useful information.
This site has several classroom learning experiences, a substantial list of links to websites that address different areas of education and instruction, classroom activities that accompany different titles of children's literature, and some of Bertie Kingore's recently published articles from different magazines and journals that address current topics and issues in education.
This organization specializes in helping educators to address individual learning styles and diverse student needs. Each year they introduce numerous innovative hands-on, print, and software tools to help make teachers more successful.
The Discovery Education website is composed of three different sub-sections - Discovery School, unitedstreaming, and Discovery Health Connection. The Discovery School offers free teaching tools, more than 750 videos, DVD's, learning books and teaching tools that can be purchased in their online store. One of these teaching tools is Discovery Health Connection, which features more than 5,000 videos to teach children about health education and the body. Unitedstreaming allows homeschooling parents and educators the ability to choose from 4,000 quality media streaming videos to teach about various areas, such as math, science, and social sciences.
This networking and information provider (offering a newletter and website) is dedicated to making a difference in the pursuit of educational excellence for children. Gifted Children Monthly offers a wide variety of gifted and talented resources for parents, teachers, students, mentors and other professionals in the GT arena.
Gifted Education Press is one of the leading publishers of books and periodicals on identifying and teaching the gifted. The company produces numerous rigorous books in the sciences, mathematics and humanities, as well as a quarterly publication, Gifted Education Press Quarterly.
As the nation's leading educational publisher for grades 6-12, Glencoe provides more of what you need to teach effectively and efficiently - and to meet the diverse learning needs of your students.
This software can be used by children, adults and therapists in treating a variety of speech, communication, and cognitive impairments.
This website is a free, online, searchable directory of lesson plans. Educator for all grades and subjects will find valuable lesson plan resources on this site.
This site helps children learn with games, software and educational activities. Owl and Mouse gives the parents and teachers tools to provide individualized learning for their children. You can download anything from maps to geography to medieval castles to history and feudalism.
Renaissance Place is the integrated, web-based information system that brings together student data, giving teachers, principals, and administrators access to information they need to make data-driven decisions throughout their school or district.
The Responsive Classroom® is an approach to teaching and learning that fosters safe, challenging, and joyful classrooms and schools, K-8. Developed by classroom teachers, it consists of practical strategies for bringing together social and academic learning throughout the school day. Since 1981, thousands of classroom teachers and hundreds of schools and school districts have used the Responsive Classroom® approach to help create learning environments where children thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. Educators using these strategies report increases in student investment, responsibility, and learning, and decreases in problem behaviors.
Stenhouse Publishing offers a wide variety of curriculum books. According to the website they offer: Professional Materials by Teachers for Teachers.
SuperKids is a website for parents and teachers who want the best in education for their children. SuperKids provides: reviews and ratings of educational software; practical and fun tools for online and offline use; news about important educational issues; and views of visionaries and policymakers.
A 5+ subject CD-Rom for grades 3-12, that has built in answer keys for automatic grading, and easy teacher and student menus. This secular resource allows students to learn on their own and is customizable.
Teacher Created Materials provides nearly 200 literature units based on exemplary children's literature and young adult fiction. Each unit contains detailed lesson plans, literature response activities, discussion questions, assessment tests and rubrics, and all necessary student materials. All Teacher Created Material units were designed and written by practicing teachers and tried out and refined in actual classrooms. The guides are relatively inexpensive ($7.95 per unit) and they cover a wide range of award-winning children's literature and young adult fiction.
This company provides elementary, middle school and high school educators with training, materials, and software. Areas of focus include: differentiation for multiple learning styles and ability ranges;
cognitive and metacognitive strategies; engaged, student-centered lessons; technology and training related to differentiated curriculum development and rubric and product guide writing.
An online monthly subscription service offering comprehensive language arts curriculum from a multicultural perspective. Sign up for the free monthly newsletter with cost-saving tips and information about the latest free samples and member updates. Everything you need for language arts is here!
This company offers high-quality resources for exceptional educators. Zephyr Press (publisher of this website) publishes education resources for teachers that help them better understand how kids learn and how they can be more effective in the classroom, focusing on gifted education and the latest research on multiple intelligences and brain-compatible learning.
Authorware is a high end educational authoring program that allows one to create educational materials on any subject. In Authorware, one can take any subject, create interactive informational segments using a flow chart interface. One can even create quizzes and track progress on those using the product created in Authorware.
This video highlights practices that research has demonstrated to be effective when working in classroom environments. It acknowledges the diversity that exists in every classroom and presents a foundation that begs for differentiated instruction.
This online teaching tool uses material from the United States National Archives. The website allows users to find and create interactive learning activities with primary-source documents that promote historical thinking skills. The website also endeavors to teach students about working with primary sources.
This website contains useful educational resources for teachers. It provides curriculum ideas for math, science, reading, writing and more, as well as biographies of famous educational figures and events. There are also a number of educational website links. Most of the material is accessible but a subscription is needed for some.
Web search can be a remarkable research tool for students - and we've heard from educators that they could use some help to teach better search skills in their classroom. The following Search Education lessons were developed by Google Certified Teachers to help you do just that. The lessons are short, modular and not specific to any discipline so you can mix and match to what best fits the needs of your classroom. Additionally, all lessons come with a companion set of slides (and some with additional resources) to help you guide your in-class discussions.
The Classroom section of Rand MAcNally's website is packed full with Teacher Resources that include class activiy ideas from "Make your own compass", to "Physical-Political Wall Map" making, to teaching "Ocean Current."
Smithsonian’s History Explorer provides hundreds of free online resources for teaching and learning American history. The site is designed for use by K-12 teachers and students, afterschool program providers and families. The website focuses on using historical artifacts and items to teach American history.
No need to register to participate in this discussion group's postings. Gifted Centers, Advanced Studies in Gifted and Talented Education and Acceleration: Is it the right thing to do? are just some of the discussed topics.
This site is designed for faculty and graduate students teaching undergraduate entry-level geoscience, environmental science, or related courses. Each section describes a teaching method, its usefulness, how it can be implemented, and a set of examples spanning the Earth system that can be used in your class.
This website features differentiated activities in all content areas. For students the site offers additional/alternate activities if a classroom activity is too easy or too hard. For parents, there is information about the gifted and how to advocate for your student in the classroom. For teachers, there is information about the gifted, differentiation, and lesson plans.
This article from Roeper Review discusses how "this study examines the effects over time of implementing the William and Mary language arts and science curriculum for gifted learners designed around the Integrated Curriculum Model (ICM) in one suburban school district. It also analyzes stakeholders' perceptions of the effectiveness of the curriculum."
This article provides one parent's account of her child's accomplishments due in part to the Montessori elementary program.
This article discusses the changes being made in Winchester, Massachusetts schools to accommodate the highly gifted population from kindergarten through twelfth grade. Reforms include changes in curriculum and the use of the term "fast learners" instead of "Gifted."
ADD in School.com presents hundreds of classroom interventions to help elementary school, and high school students with "ADD" or "ADHD," Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. "ADHD" in all six of its types, impacts about two students in every school classroom, in every school, in every state, across America.
What works in education? The Best Evidence Encyclopedia (BEE) presents reliable, unbiased reviews of research-proven educational programs to help policymakers, principals, teachers and researchers.
This checklist hosted by the Austega.com webite provides a characteristics checklist for teachers and parents looking for signs of giftedness in young children. Characteristic traits are listed by broad category of giftedness and include general intellectual ability, specific academic aptitude, creative thinking and production, leadership, psychomotor ability and visual and performing arts.
Cybrary Man's Educational Web Site is the internet catalogue for students, teachers, administrators & parents. Over 20,000 relevant links personally selected by an educator/author with over 30 years of experience.
CYFERnet is designed to be used by anyone who needs comprehensive children, youth, or family information including: educators, researchers, parents, youth agency staff, community members, human services and health care providers, students, policy makers, youth and media.
This is an online, free database of resources for educators provided by Discovery channel’s Discovery Education program. Resources include lesson plans, a teacher’s store and newsletter, curriculum center, teaching tools and more. This is a great resource for teachers of any grade level and home schoolers.
This website is produced by Houghton Mifflin School Division, which publishes a variety of educational materials, including textbooks, resource materials, and technology for K-8 teachers and students. Launched in January 1996, Education Place is the longest running website of any educational publisher. With more than 18,000 pages of engaging content to explore, visitors to award-winning Education Place can delve further into the subjects they most enjoy to find helpful teaching resources, textbook support, educational games, and more.
eGFI seeks to identify and gather in one place the most effective engineering education resources available to the K-12 community. From comprehensive data on outreach programs to profiles of “cool” engineers to hundreds of links and readings related to engineering education, eGFI offers useful, easily accessible materials specifically tailored to students’ and educators’ interests.
eTAP is a non-profit education corp., whose purpose is to provide K-12 curriculum for the core subjects of Mathematics, English, Science, and History on the world wide Internet. The instructional material is designed to assist students, teachers and parents. The Lessons can be used for students’ instruction and for parents and teachers as an aid to help their children and students.
This extensive guide offers a considerable amount of suggestions and guidelines for incorporating ethics and values into secondary science instruction. Included are links to a number of case studies in which science and ethics intertwine, as well as information on additional resources.
More than 30 federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is this FREE website.
This website aims to provide a forum for Canadian researchers, educators, organizations and families to share information concerning gifted education, research and resources across Canada.
This webpage is a resource guide for teachers, including information about gifted students, how to identify gifted students, how to work with gifted students, and additional resources. Also, parents may find it useful in working with educators.
You have a classroom of 20-30 students and you have varying levels of ability in your classroom. Guess who will probably learn the least in this typical classroom? Most likely it will be the 'gifted' student(s). This article by Sue Watson discusses this issue further.
In this article from the LearnNC.org website, Cathy Kroninger emphasizes the importance of understanding gifted children. She gives tips for identifying gifted learners, strategies for teaching and using resources to gain a better understanding of the gifted.
This website hosts an online community supporting the needs of parents of gifted children. There are elists, a collection of articles, books, links and other information regarding gifted children.
This is a comprehensive website about giftedness, with links to articles, resources, and major national programs for gifted children. A separate section of the website provides resources for families with highly, exceptionally, and profoundly gifted children.
Home Educator's Family Times is the homeschool publication for new or veteran homeschool families. The website offers a variety of homeschooling resources for parents, educators, and other professionals.
This webpage displays the notes for a talk at the National Association of Scholars and provides the author's responses to the process of inflation in education, the death of the “new math” and rise of the “know-nothings”.
"Inquiry" is defined as "a seeking for truth, information, or knowledge -- seeking information by questioning." Individuals carry on the process of inquiry from the time they are born until they die. This is true even though they might not reflect upon the process. Infants begin to make sense of the world by inquiring. From birth, babies observe faces that come near, they grasp objects, they put things in their mouths, and they turn toward voices. The process of inquiring begins with gathering information and data through applying the human senses -- seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling." Check out this website for a more in-depth look into Inquiry-Based Learning.
InTime enables educators to watch online video vignettes of PreK-12 teachers from various grades and subjects integrate technology into their classrooms using numerous teaching strategies.
This online curriculum details the multi-disciplinary scientific expedition projects by researchers affiliated with the Jason Institute. Jason offers curriculum packages for instructors and homeschoolers with students in 4-9th grades, with online access and live video interactions between students and the researchers in the field. The projects look at Earth's physical systems and the technology that we use to study those systems.
LEARN: Atmospheric Science Explorers (LEARN) began in 1991 with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help fill the critical need of science teacher professional development. NSF funded two versions of LEARN. The fundamental goal of both LEARN programs was to increase middle school science teacher knowledge of and interest in the atmospheric sciences.
This website provides information for teachers on lesson planning. The Education Resource Group is dedicated to helping professional educators, student teachers, parents, mentors and tutors educate students by providing access to education resources.
This interview between Center for Talent Development director Paula Olszewski-Kubilius, Ph.D and her former student, Issac Greenspan discusses his education from elementary school to high school. Issac reviewed his experience in various programs that would accommodate his accelerated academic pace. In addition to these programs, he also describes his social growth and the importance of parent advocacy and teacher mentoring.
This article written by Glenda Lappan and hosted on the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) website, advocates the need for gifted children to be challenged in their course work, specifically in mathematics. She stresses the importance of using outside resources for children to read and study on their own. Lappan states that mathematics clubs can provide extra opportunities.
In this article, Nancy Lashaway-Bokina describes effective mentoring and motivational techniques. She covers methods of guiding lower-income students and highlights one teacher's unique motivational ideas.
This article link takes users to the Prufrock Press Web site. Laura McGrail states that meeting the needs of gifted students in the classroom "equals and often exceeds" challenges of disabled students. The article is a how to format, listing easy to implement strategies and modifications for curriculum, assignments, lesson plans and scheduling. The article concludes with three separate case studies of how modifying the curriculum was beneficial for students.
This website by the University of Oregon's Teaching Effectiveness program answers many common questions about student motivation. Some answers are tailored to teachers, others are appropriate for homeschoolers.
The NAR helps teachers engage and energize students with educational resources and 40+ years of model rocket expertise.
This website offers just what the name implies -- interactive math. Learning and understanding mathematics, at every level, requires student engagement. Mathematics is not, as has been said, a spectator sport. Too much of current instruction fails to actively involve students. One way to address the problem is through the use of manipulatives, physical objects that help students visualize relationships and applications. We can now use computers to create virtual learning environments to address the same goals.
The role of this advocacy organization is to give added visibility to effective teaching and learning practices and to help mainstream certain ideas. This organization offers many science resources, including specialized information for gifted learners. It is often used for new educational organizations.
"More students are taking--and passing--Advanced Placement (AP) exams in every part of the country, as college-level work in high school becomes increasingly common, the College Board reported Jan. 25. Many state education officials attribute the gains in participation at least in part to online courses that expand the reach of advanced-level instruction. "
The National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) offers support materials for the Parallel Curriculum Model (PCM) in the hope that these support materials will provide interested educators with an opportunity to participate in a distance learning initiative about the PCM. The PCM is an integrated framework and set of procedures for designing rigorous and highly motivating curriculum that attends to important student differences.
This website has curriculum and other fun resources for teachers of Mathematics which may be downloaded from the site for FREE.
The information on this Web page has been written by Tracy L. Cross, Ph.D. and is excerpted from On the Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Children, 2nd Edition, (2004 Prufrock Press Inc.). He provides key concepts for teaching to the social and emotional needs of gifted students.
This online curriculum resource offers professionals the opportunity to improve their skills. Through a variety of professional development programs and resources, educators can learn how to effectively use Library of Congress resources in the classroom. Programs include teleconferencing workshops, online and downloadable materials, live workshops and a fellowship program.
This article link reviews the content, pedagogical approaches, and problems with current algebra textbooks. It includes a chart with overall information about the comparisons, reviews of individual textbooks, instructional criteria, and the criteria used to evaluate each individual text.
This article link presents strategies to help highly able students get more out of school. Teachers may find that the strategies enable them to challenge and motivate both gifted students and students who have talents and abilities in specific areas. How to get the best performance from every student is a challenging task, especially in classrooms where there are many different levels of ability. Often, students who are gifted are not challenged to perform to their full capacity because they seem to be doing just fine. Unfortunately, these students may never achieve their potential because they have not had complex tasks and have never learned to really work.
Quantum Learning Network has evolved from a small group of educators in the early 1980's to a global organization spanning more than 14 countries. The Quantum Adademy in Oceanside, CA offers programs on Youth Achievement, Teacher Training, College Success and Adult Learning. Achievement skills courses include academic and study strategies, powerful memory and reading techniques, effective writing, thinking and learning, purposeful teaching practices, empowering leadership, and more. QLN also offers a 10-day SuperCamp Summer Program.
This website is Dr. Schultz's personal homepage hosted by the Univeristy of Toledo and contains links to his writings, courses he teaches and upcoming seminars.
SciGuides contain specific lesson plans, vignettes, audio files, and student work samples. All of these resources illustrate how they might be used in the classroom; for example, to demonstrate a visual simulation of a difficult concept, collaborate with other students in virtual experiments, or complete or create a WebQuest.
This online professional development curriculum was created and is used by the Library of Congress. These lessons are available online for use in local professional development activities. Topics covered include Classroom Applications; Search Skills; Technology; and Working with Primary Sources.
This curriculum enrichment service offers teachers practical help in planning courses and presenting rigorous subject matter. It consists of a series of instructional guides on important topics in the humanities on the secondary level, such as "Nature Transformed: The Environment in American History" and "Divining America: Religion and the National Culture."
Prufrock Press is now offering Teacher's Corner for teachers, with helpful information, links, upcoming events and blogs for teachers of gifted and talented children.
This article provides tips for teaching the gifted student to play an instrument, and looks at some of the problems that the child may face due to his or her giftedness.
There are a series of detailed tips for teachers on how to deal with the challenge that many gifted students face with learning or with social disorders. There is also a list of methods on how to facilitate the gifted abilities of students - not focusing solely on their disabilities.
The Educator's Reference Desk provides access to the following resources: links to more than 3,000 resources on a variety of educational issues; more than 2,000 unique lesson plans written and submitted by teachers from all over the United States; a collection of more than 200 responses to popular questions on the practice, theory, and research of education.The database is updated monthly, ensuring that the information you receive is timely and accurate.
This online curriculum resource offers teachers (or homeschoolers) everything they need to take advantage of the Library of Congress's more than 7 million online resources. The Learning Page is designed to help educators use the American Memory Collections to teach history and culture. It offers tips and tricks, definitions and rationale for using primary sources, activities, discussions, lesson plans and suggestions for using the collections in classroom curriculum.
This online curriculum from the EPA provides hands-on lessons and activities, enrichment ideas, journal writing assignments, and other educational tools related to preventing and reducing trash. Each chapter includes one or more fact sheets providing background information on each topic. In addition, each chapter includes an index showing the grade ranges, subject areas and skills used for each activity to help teachers select the appropriate activities.
This online curriculum by U.S. News & World Report integrates current events into the classroom. Dozens of techniques for teachers to bring the classroom alive: ideas for social studies, economics, English, journalism, composition, science and business; and ways to challenge students as they work individually or in groups.
This is one of the most detailed, comprehensive websites for English/Language Arts teaching resources. With detailed lesson plans, videos, biographies, useful classroom activities and more, this site intends to serve as a guide for beginning teachers and provide new ideas for those more established. Educators can use online technology to share ideas and benefit from each others' work.
The current nationwide emphasis on ensuring that all students and schools meet high standards has increased the demand for evidence of "what works" in education. Currently, few resources exist to help education decision makers differentiate high-quality research from weaker research and promotional claims. As a decision-making tool, the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) helps the education community locate and recognize credible and reliable evidence to make informed decisions.
This site provides information about Word Finding for professionals, parents, and learners with word finding difficulties. Topics include definition, characteristics, assessment, intervention, and available course work.
This article answers questions like: Why are IEP goals and objectives so difficult? What makes this IEP process so confusing?
Curriki hopes to improve education around the world by empowering teachers, students and parents with user-created, open source curricula, and it's all free! This website is an ever-growing collection of free lessons, assessments, resources and textbooks.
This website uses an innovative system of manipulative "weights" to teach the theory behind algebraic math. On the site are several products, including a teacher's guide (video available separately), three levels of study, classroom sheets, answer key and student manipulatives.
Hosted on the Enhance Learning with Technology website, this detailed article by teacher Priscilla Theroux, outlines 21 strategies for enhancing motivation in students. Theroux has extensive experience dealing with underachieving students and has been greatly influenced by the insight of Joanne Rand Whitmore and Sylvia Rimm.
Socratic Seminar participants seek deeper understanding of complex ideas through rigorously thoughtful dialogue, rather than by memorizing bits of information or meeting arbitrary demands for 'coverage. As listeners and readers, students will analyze experiences, ideas, information, and issues presented by others using a variety of established criteria. This information is provided by the Greece Central School District in New York.
The Art of Learning Project is a non-profit educational initiative sponsored by The JW Foundation. Its mission is to reinvigorate the world’s belief in the power of education by supporting parents, educators, and coaches in igniting a life-long love of learning in children and young adults.