Engaging and Challenging Gifted Students: Tips for Supporting Extraordinary Minds in Your Classroom (ASCD Arias)

by Jenny Grant Rankin

Overview

Though nearly 5 million students can be characterized as gifted and talented in the United States, many exceptional learners “fly under the radar.” Because they are not appropriately challenged in the general classroom, they never meet their full potential—in school or in life.

Author Jenny Grant Rankin equips general classroom teachers with the information and strategies they need to spot, advocate for, engage, and challenge exceptional learners in their classrooms.

Learn how to

• recognize the challenges of each child,
• identify the five unexpected traits of exceptional learners, and
• adjust your teaching to meet the needs of all learners.

Filled with useful strategies and poignant personal accounts, this book gives you the “meat” of what you need to prevent those students who need to be challenged and engaged from slipping through the cracks.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416623373
Publisher:	Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development
Publication date:	10/04/2016
Series:	ASCD Arias
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Jenny Grant Rankin, PhD, teaches the Postdoc Masterclass at the University of Cambridge. Dr. Rankin, who resides in California most of the year, earned a PhD in Education, with a specialization in School Improvement Leadership. She is an award-winning former junior high school teacher who earned such honors as being named Teacher of the Year and having the American flag flown over the U.S. Capitol building in honor of her dedication to her students. As the majority of her students were socioeconomically disadvantaged English learners, she specialized in using data, differentiation, and creative instruction (e.g., gamification, project-based learning, global learning) to ensure that her exceptional students were being challenged and engaged even as they learned alongside struggling and grade-level learners. Dr. Rankin, a Mensan who grew up in GATE, is the assistant coordinator of her county’s Mensa Gifted Youth Program and the author of numerous books and journal articles.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Identify Gifted Students
Recognize Intensities for What They Are
Engage Each Child
Challenge Each Child
Catch Hidden Challenges
Final Thoughts
Encore
References
Related Resources
About the Author