Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom: Strategies and Techniques Every Teacher Can Use to Meet the Academic Needs of the Gifted and Talented (Revised and Updated Edition)

Although this book was published before common core, I still picked up some helpful tricks, especially extensions of reading and spelling. I have been teaching 6 years, and this is my first year with some gifted students in my room all day. There are some preprinted (but not editable) contracts to help ensure students are working independently. I plan on using these not just with my gifted students but my high ability and self-starters. However, the ideas in the back for extensions was very thin. The author writes that you can look through your old materials, or those of co-workers, for activities without spending much money. Materials that I have received in the past don't cut it for common core. But the book was useful and will be a help as I make up my own contracts and search out ideas.

If you're new to teaching gifted students, this is a great read. 7 years after buying this, I still go back to it once a year. It's more geared towards elementary, but we've used it at secondary level for training and ideas. The author's introduction to the concepts is just as useful as the lesson plans. There is not a ton of practical stuff out there on this topic, and everyone who teaches has these kids.

I've found that having my own copy of this book is invaluable, as it helps me understand where the teacher might be coming from and discuss with her what options might work well for my (highly gifted) children. I gave a copy to my son's teacher--and she uses it so much she can't share it with the other teachers. I suggested the school librarian purchase a copy, and it's in high demand--it keeps disappearing. Many teachers are more than willing to find ways to accomodate the special needs of gifted children, and are actually looking for guidance on how to best differentiate their curriculum. This book gives them many different tools, and guidance on how to use them.

Sadly, the students who will make the least progress during the school year are our gifted students. With all the energy that teachers spend trying to help our low-achieving students pass the ever more stressful mandated state tests, our high-achieving students can get left behind.Winebrenner's wonderful resource can help teachers manage the wide range of ability levels in our classrooms, without spending every waking moment designing different lessons.This should be in every teacher's classroom library. The strategies work with ALL students.

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This book is an invaluable resource for the classroom teacher who would like to adopt new strategies designed to meet the individual needs of each of his/her students. As a teacher of the gifted, I plan to incorporate several of the techniques within my classroom. However, general education teachers will find her suggestions equally valuable with their students as well. My favorite part is the author's inclusion of templates which provide for student assessment to use with her strategies. I love the Super Sentences strategy!

Enlightening with good tips.

This helps provide some guidance and resources when working with GT students.

Brilliant, if only you can get the school to listen. My son matched the profile exactly and secondary school tests have confirmed in certain areas he is off the scale. However, primary schools don't always want to do much if anything with bright children unless they are disruptive too. If you read this and your child is a match, give it to his or her teacher and headteacher to read. I was an educational researcher into gifted and talented so know a little and this opened up even more. It is a very good read and will help you to understand how a gifted child ticks and how to get them to engage especially when by nature neither reward nor punishment will encourage them to work . . . They often only apply themselves if it pleases them. If you are a teacher then it will give you useful strategies for all children but especially the more able . . . Even if you are doing a topic where a normally average child has special detailed knowledge, there are ideas that can be used for pushing them on rather than making them listen to stuff they already know