This book by Monita R. Leavitt, is great for anyone building a gifted program from scratch or evaluating or changing your program. A CD is included with exciting PowerPoint slides, alomg with a manual to give you everything you need for staff development, allowing you to customize sessions for parents or school boards. The manual contains background material with references as well as reproducible pages that can be used as handouts.
How can educators help a gifted student to excel? The quality and character of a school's curriculum is a vital ingredient to the eventual realization of a child's capacity. This book explains in detail how to organize a thoughtful curriculum to capture the interest and energy of our ablest young thinkers.
This book is the definitive reference book for those searching for a summary and evaluation of the literature on giftedness and gifted education with summaries of important topics in the field, providing relevant research and a guide to how the research applies to gifted education. Sample topics addressed include alternative assessment, counseling, early childhood, highly gifted students, homeschooling, parenting, and policy and advocacy.
In this book, you'll 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. Flack shows you 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.
Social-Emotional Curriculum With Gifted and Talented Students provides a thorough introduction to methods for developing social-emotional curricula for use with gifted and talented learners in the school setting.
Super Smart Math challenges students to think critcally while providing activities and problems that become increasingly difficult as the students progress through each section. Organized by mathematical topics for grades 5-8.
Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn. All lectures were recorded in the Yale College classroom and are available in video, audio, and text transcript format. Registration is not required and no course credit is available.
This vendor provides curriculum guides and staff development for English/Language Arts teachers.
Veritas Press offers an online catalog filled with teaching materials for secular teaching. Their catalog provides "Christian educators in the home and school setting with quality tools for a quality education."
The Renzulli Learning Differentiation Engine puts students in touch with engaging, individualized resources specially chosen for their interest areas and learning styles.
On this website, Teacher2Teacher, teachers and parents will find resources for those who have questions about teaching mathematics. T2T grew out of the Ask Dr. Math® service at the Math Forum in March of 1998 and can be best described as a a peer-mentored question-and-answer service.
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.
Teachers can use this resource as one of many tools in the development of their lesson plans, incorporating a range of its suggested activities and subjects into different educational units throughout the school year. Activities and concepts can be incorporated into existing curricula, or teachers can create special week-long units on the environment and solid waste or use the activities to commemorate Earth Day.
This article provides gifted teachers advice on planning writing menus.
This Science site provides simple experiments and lesson plans for kids who homeschool or want to do their own experiments for fun. While this site is quite enjoyable it is most appropriate for the very young.
The United Nations Cyberschoolbus is an education site created as the online education component of the Global Teaching and Learning Project, whose mission is to promote education about international issues and the United Nations. The Global Teaching and Learning Project produces high quality teaching materials and activities designed for educational use and for training teachers. The vision of this Project is to provide exceptional educational resources (both online and in print) to students growing up in a world undergoing increased globalization.
This website is divided up into four sections: Cadet Section for grades 2-8, Expert Section for grades 6-12, Teacher's Lounge and Parent's Center. Each section has various links of interest to its particular group. There are experiments and projects along with lessons in each of the student areas. Teachers will find complete lesson plans on a variety of subjects for a variety of grade levels in their section. Parents will find ideas and things to do with their children in their section.
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.
Choose from the Family Edition, Homeschool Edition or School Edition to enrich the educational programs in your school or family setting. 16 art lessons from the award-winning art education in geeART16 include a glossary of terms, gallery of art and a section to build a personal portfolio. Interactive quizzes measure students' knowledge and allow them to collect rewards.
This page on the math.rice.edu website, offers a series of lessons as well as an “SAT-Type” quiz. The lessons cover a glossary of geometric terms, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' standards, the history of geometry, and various puzzles and shape identifying excercises.
"Students embark on zany time travel missions to learn keyboarding skills in this animated update of Type to Learn™. Built on a proven curriculum of sequential, skills-building instruction, Type to Learn™ 3 helps students master keyboarding by engaging them in lesson/practice sequences."