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Great resources for a variety of ideas on instructional strategies
Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular
Classroom
Author Susan Winebrenner’s basic philosophy hasn’t changed, and all of her proven, practical, classroom-tested strategies teachers love are compiled here. With an entire chapter on identifying gifted students, the step-by-step how-tos for using the strategies are detailed and user-friendly.
Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom has been the definitive guide to meeting the learning needs of gifted students in mixed-abilities classrooms - without losing control, causing resentment, or spending hours preparing extra materials. Includes more than 50 reproducible forms and handouts, and contains information and examples for compacting curriculum, making learning contracts, creating challenging activities, grouping and evaluating work; there’s even chapter especially for parents.
Classroom
Author Susan Winebrenner’s basic philosophy hasn’t changed, and all of her proven, practical, classroom-tested strategies teachers love are compiled here. With an entire chapter on identifying gifted students, the step-by-step how-tos for using the strategies are detailed and user-friendly.
Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom has been the definitive guide to meeting the learning needs of gifted students in mixed-abilities classrooms - without losing control, causing resentment, or spending hours preparing extra materials. Includes more than 50 reproducible forms and handouts, and contains information and examples for compacting curriculum, making learning contracts, creating challenging activities, grouping and evaluating work; there’s even chapter especially for parents.
| $ 25.95 |
Teaching Kids with Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom
A wealth of practical, easy to use strategies to help students who struggle to learn. From the relentless pressure to make sure that all students score at the proficient level on high-stakes tests, to the rigorous requirements of No Child Left Behind, teachers are held more accountable than ever before.
A gold mine of practical, easy-to-use teaching methods, strategies, and tips, this book helps teachers differentiate the curriculum in all subject areas for all learners-including those labeled "slow," "remedial," or "LD"; students of poverty; English language learners; and others who struggle to learn. Full of proven ways to significantly improve learning outcomes for students who score below proficiency levels, this is an essential resource for every educator. Includes reproducibles.
Author: Susan Winebrenner.
A wealth of practical, easy to use strategies to help students who struggle to learn. From the relentless pressure to make sure that all students score at the proficient level on high-stakes tests, to the rigorous requirements of No Child Left Behind, teachers are held more accountable than ever before.
A gold mine of practical, easy-to-use teaching methods, strategies, and tips, this book helps teachers differentiate the curriculum in all subject areas for all learners-including those labeled "slow," "remedial," or "LD"; students of poverty; English language learners; and others who struggle to learn. Full of proven ways to significantly improve learning outcomes for students who score below proficiency levels, this is an essential resource for every educator. Includes reproducibles.
Author: Susan Winebrenner.
| $ 39.95 |
Teaching Young Gifted Children in the
Regular Classroom
This guide encourages and enables teachers to identify gifted children as early as age four and create a learning environment that supports all students. Proven, practical strategies and techniques help you teach to multiple intelligences, compact and extend the curriculum, communicate with parents, and more.
Authors: Joan F. Smutny, M.A., Sally Y. Walker, Ph.D., and Elizabeth A. Meckstroth, M.Ed., M.S.W.
Regular Classroom
This guide encourages and enables teachers to identify gifted children as early as age four and create a learning environment that supports all students. Proven, practical strategies and techniques help you teach to multiple intelligences, compact and extend the curriculum, communicate with parents, and more.
Authors: Joan F. Smutny, M.A., Sally Y. Walker, Ph.D., and Elizabeth A. Meckstroth, M.Ed., M.S.W.
| $ 39.95 |
Differentiating Content for Gifted
Learners, Grades 6 - 12
Teachers familiar with Susan Winebrenner's learning materials for gifted students want more. More extensions menus, more study guides, more expert direction on how to differentiate instruction across a broad range of academic topics: literature, writing, history, social studies, math, science, health, foreign languages, and technology.
This stand-alone CD includes more than 140 reproducible forms and templates, plus detailed explanations on how to differentiate content for gifted and high-ability learners in secondary settings-an increasingly pressing issue. Unique, timely, and ready to use, it's a must-have tool for today's challenging classroom. Macintosh and Windows compatible.
Learners, Grades 6 - 12
Teachers familiar with Susan Winebrenner's learning materials for gifted students want more. More extensions menus, more study guides, more expert direction on how to differentiate instruction across a broad range of academic topics: literature, writing, history, social studies, math, science, health, foreign languages, and technology.
This stand-alone CD includes more than 140 reproducible forms and templates, plus detailed explanations on how to differentiate content for gifted and high-ability learners in secondary settings-an increasingly pressing issue. Unique, timely, and ready to use, it's a must-have tool for today's challenging classroom. Macintosh and Windows compatible.
| $ 21.95 |
Creating Standards-Based Integrated
Curriculum
Develop an integrated, relevant, and measurable curriculum while also presenting engaging subject matter that inspires student learning. In this revised edition of the classic text is a new approach to standards-based curriculum, instruction, and assessment that helps educators identify what students must know, do, and be. This invaluable resource offers a framework allowing for multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches to curriculum integration. Included are sample models of integrated curriculum; practical suggestions to simplify curriculum alignment and integration; insights to connect the framework to the real world; plus end-of-chapter discussion questions and suggested activities.
Author: Susan Drake.
Curriculum
Develop an integrated, relevant, and measurable curriculum while also presenting engaging subject matter that inspires student learning. In this revised edition of the classic text is a new approach to standards-based curriculum, instruction, and assessment that helps educators identify what students must know, do, and be. This invaluable resource offers a framework allowing for multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches to curriculum integration. Included are sample models of integrated curriculum; practical suggestions to simplify curriculum alignment and integration; insights to connect the framework to the real world; plus end-of-chapter discussion questions and suggested activities.
Author: Susan Drake.
| $ 33.95 |
Differentiating With Graphic Organizers
Use graphic organizers to challenge students, make learning exciting, and raise academic achievement! This hands on guide provides assessment rubrics for providing quality feedback, and addresses ways to promote and build students' creative reasoning, communication, and problem-solving skills to ensure successful learning.
Includes graphic organizers for nine types of thinking processes based on Bloom's taxonomy plus examples of how to apply the graphic organizers in different subject areas and grade levels. Also discusses how teachers can promote critical and creative thinking processes and how to modify graphic organizers or create their own to meet individual learning needs.
Author: Patti Drapeau.
Use graphic organizers to challenge students, make learning exciting, and raise academic achievement! This hands on guide provides assessment rubrics for providing quality feedback, and addresses ways to promote and build students' creative reasoning, communication, and problem-solving skills to ensure successful learning.
Includes graphic organizers for nine types of thinking processes based on Bloom's taxonomy plus examples of how to apply the graphic organizers in different subject areas and grade levels. Also discusses how teachers can promote critical and creative thinking processes and how to modify graphic organizers or create their own to meet individual learning needs.
Author: Patti Drapeau.
| $ 33.95 |
Research Reports to Knock Your Teacher's Socks Off
Make research both fun and rewarding for 3rd - 8th graders. With easy directions and specific models and examples, this book shows students different ways to organize information about animals, people, places and events. Imagine being a hit with your classmates and teachers when you present your research in new and interesting ways.
Author: Nancy Polette.
Make research both fun and rewarding for 3rd - 8th graders. With easy directions and specific models and examples, this book shows students different ways to organize information about animals, people, places and events. Imagine being a hit with your classmates and teachers when you present your research in new and interesting ways.
Author: Nancy Polette.
| $ 10.95 |
Research Without Copying
The standard research paper encourages copying and data dumping. Instead, use these ideas to help 4th - 9th grade students to: think critically about what they read and hear by seeking supporting facts; use information in varied ways rather than just copying; learn research skills; learn proven methods and models, moving to analysis and synthesis of data rather than rote copying; see model products; explore a broad spectrum of topic ides for every day of the school year.
Author: Nance Polette.
The standard research paper encourages copying and data dumping. Instead, use these ideas to help 4th - 9th grade students to: think critically about what they read and hear by seeking supporting facts; use information in varied ways rather than just copying; learn research skills; learn proven methods and models, moving to analysis and synthesis of data rather than rote copying; see model products; explore a broad spectrum of topic ides for every day of the school year.
Author: Nance Polette.
| $ 12.95 |
The Research Project Book
Over 100 unique research product models move students from lower to higher levels of thinking. Students are required to use analysis and synthesis of the data they collect as well as problem solving skills and evaluation. Changing the product changes the process and thinking level, creating an exceptional and distinctive research product.
Activities are based on outstanding nonfiction titles which are used as models for the students' own creative products. The goal is to move students from copying from a reference source to creating unique research products in which students can take pride.
Author: Nancy Polette.
Grades 4 - 9
Over 100 unique research product models move students from lower to higher levels of thinking. Students are required to use analysis and synthesis of the data they collect as well as problem solving skills and evaluation. Changing the product changes the process and thinking level, creating an exceptional and distinctive research product.
Activities are based on outstanding nonfiction titles which are used as models for the students' own creative products. The goal is to move students from copying from a reference source to creating unique research products in which students can take pride.
Author: Nancy Polette.
Grades 4 - 9
| $ 14.95 |
