This revised and updated edition adds many helpful features to an already wonderful guide. In this book, you'll discover timesaving ways to wake up your students. And, you'll do so without alienating your other students and without spending every free moment preparing extra materials.
This new edition includes additional chapters on the characteristics of gifted students and parenting gifted kids. The author greatly expands the teaching strategies sections, adding many new, practical examples. Also, more than 50 timesaving reproducible forms and handouts have been added.
Designed for any teacher of gifted kids, this book is filled with timesaving strategies that can be used in any classroom environment.
Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom offers easy-to-use instructions for compacting the curriculum for a variety of subjects, creating learning contracts that really work, designing exciting opportunities for independent study, implementing cooperative learning the right way, evaluating the work of gifted students, meeting accountability requirements, and so much more. The strategies contained in this book will help your students become more highly motivated, be more creative and productive, and develop more positive feelings about school.
For more practical ideas for younger gifted students, use
Teaching Young Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom. If you like this book, you may want to look at its companion CD-ROM,
Teaching Gifted Kids—CD-ROM, which includes computerized versions of the reproducibles in the book.
Grades 3–12
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