Looking for new and exciting ways to supplement your core curriculum in your gifted classroom? Look no further than More Units of Instruction for Gifted Learners, the latest release in Prufrock's collection of field-tested units for teachers of gifted students. More Units of Instruction for Gifted Learners introduces five new units of instruction developed by veteran educators in the field of gifted education. These classroom-tested, interdisciplinary units will challenge and engage students while building and reviewing skills in math, science, language arts, and social studies. Students in grades 2–7 will enjoying experimenting with static electricity; exploring the properties of rocks, gems, and minerals; creating and presenting advertising campaigns; discovering and measuring cylindrical properties; and investigating and taking action on real-world issues. Worksheets, handouts, answer keys, resource lists, and teachers' guides are included for each unit, making this book an effective and easy-to-use part of classroom instruction.

This new offering from the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented contains sample units written, taught, and revised by a group of Texas teachers. Teachers from around the state submitted successful "tried and true" units for possible inclusion in an elementary curriculum publication. A committee selected 13 units for inclusion in the new publication, all of which have been aligned with the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). Featuring ready-to-use instructional units aligned with national standards, this book is guaranteed to save you hours of planning time. From a simulation of the Middle Ages, to producing a student-run magazine, to analysis of folk tales, to the science behind hot air balloons, the creative lessons in this book cover the core academic areas. These sample units are yours to adapt and modify to meet the needs of the students in your classroom. Use them to enrich the learning experiences of your gifted and talented children!

Focuses on all the issues that teachers and administrators need to know about gifted learners. This text covers the process of curriculum development, adaptation of traditional content areas, and non-traditional curriculum areas like thinking, skills, leadership and the arts and humanities.

Based on theories developed in psychology and special education, resource consultation and collaboration in gifted education presents a framework that allows classroom teachers and gifted education coordinators to work together to provide more enrichment opportunities to more students both inside and outside of the regular classroom. This comprehensive resource guides readers through the theory and practice of resource consultation and presents all the information necessary for setting up a program. Landrum describes the various personnel roles, steps in the consultation process, differentiation techniques, and best practices and provides examples of classrooms and schools in which resource consultation is successfully at work. Reproducible templates, a two-year implementation timetable, inservice suggestions, and sample letters to parents round out this resource on applying resource consultation and collaboration to gifted education and schoolwide improvement.

Sample units demonstrate how to use the Parallel Curriculum Model to design high-quality curriculum in language arts. Each unit includes instructions, assessments, and skills/standards.

For the first time, the Gifted Child Today Readerseries brings together the best articles published in Gifted Child Today, the nation's most popular gifted education journal. Each book in this series is filled with exciting and practical classroom ideas, useful summaries of research findings, discussions of identification and classroom management, and informed opinions about educating gifted kids. Anyone involved in education will benefit from the practical, research-based ideas this unique series has to offer. Teaching Strategies in Gifted Educationoffers practical advice about teaching gifted kids. This book offers specific teaching strategies such as divergent-thinking instruction and independent study. The book also covers differentiated curriculum, classroom management, dealing with underachievement, and professional development and total school improvement. In implementing a differentiated curriculum, the authors recommend a variety of grouping arrangements and school or classroom management strategies. Strategies including counseling, the Trifocal Model, an integrated systems approach, behavioral contracts, and motivating activities are suggested for gifted students. Implementation of a quality differentiated curriculum depends on quality teachers.

For the first time, the Gifted Child Today Readerseries brings together the best articles published in Gifted Child Today, the nation's most popular gifted education journal. Each book in this series is filled with exciting and practical classroom ideas, useful summaries of research findings, discussions of identification and classroom management, and informed opinions about educating gifted kids. Anyone involved in education will benefit from the practical, research-based ideas this unique series has to offer. A differentiated curriculum for gifted science students needs to be organized around basic scientific principles that require more advanced levels of thinking and complex processes. Many of the authors provide units of study and specific lessons that model best practices in teaching science. Science Education for Gifted Studentsbegins with creative ways to engage children in the primary years, thus ensuring that they develop a love of science that will last a lifetime. Subsequent chapters deal with acceleration and enrichment in the sciences, including instructional units on magnetic levitation, integrating science and physical education, and real-world archaeology.