Teaching Gifted Kids in Today's Classroom: Strategies and Techniques Every Teacher Can Use
Latest edition of the go-to classroom resource since 1992 for reaching and challenging gifted students.

This fourth edition of the “orange bible” brings fresh updates to the definitive guide to meeting the learning needs of gifted students in the mixedabilities classroom—seamlessly and effectively with minimal preparation time. Included are practical, classroom-tested strategies and step-by-step instructions for how to use them. The book provides information on:
  • Compacting and differentiating skill work and new content
  • Extending reading and writing instruction
  • Planning curriculum for all students at the same time
  • Supporting self-directed independent study
  • Supporting curriculum standards and increasing curriculum rigor
  • Boosting critical and creative thinking skills
  • Using assessments to help students demonstrate what they already know
  • Using technology for accelerated learning and to benefit twice-exceptional (2e) students
  • Serving gifted kids with special needs
  • Managing cluster grouping
Digital content includes a full chapter for parents as well as a PDF presentation for professional development, reproducible forms ready to customize and print for classroom use, and additional extension menus for the primary and upper grades.
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Teaching Gifted Kids in Today's Classroom: Strategies and Techniques Every Teacher Can Use
Latest edition of the go-to classroom resource since 1992 for reaching and challenging gifted students.

This fourth edition of the “orange bible” brings fresh updates to the definitive guide to meeting the learning needs of gifted students in the mixedabilities classroom—seamlessly and effectively with minimal preparation time. Included are practical, classroom-tested strategies and step-by-step instructions for how to use them. The book provides information on:
  • Compacting and differentiating skill work and new content
  • Extending reading and writing instruction
  • Planning curriculum for all students at the same time
  • Supporting self-directed independent study
  • Supporting curriculum standards and increasing curriculum rigor
  • Boosting critical and creative thinking skills
  • Using assessments to help students demonstrate what they already know
  • Using technology for accelerated learning and to benefit twice-exceptional (2e) students
  • Serving gifted kids with special needs
  • Managing cluster grouping
Digital content includes a full chapter for parents as well as a PDF presentation for professional development, reproducible forms ready to customize and print for classroom use, and additional extension menus for the primary and upper grades.
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Teaching Gifted Kids in Today's Classroom: Strategies and Techniques Every Teacher Can Use

Teaching Gifted Kids in Today's Classroom: Strategies and Techniques Every Teacher Can Use

by Susan Winebrenner, Dina Brulles
Teaching Gifted Kids in Today's Classroom: Strategies and Techniques Every Teacher Can Use

Teaching Gifted Kids in Today's Classroom: Strategies and Techniques Every Teacher Can Use

by Susan Winebrenner, Dina Brulles

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Overview

Latest edition of the go-to classroom resource since 1992 for reaching and challenging gifted students.

This fourth edition of the “orange bible” brings fresh updates to the definitive guide to meeting the learning needs of gifted students in the mixedabilities classroom—seamlessly and effectively with minimal preparation time. Included are practical, classroom-tested strategies and step-by-step instructions for how to use them. The book provides information on:
  • Compacting and differentiating skill work and new content
  • Extending reading and writing instruction
  • Planning curriculum for all students at the same time
  • Supporting self-directed independent study
  • Supporting curriculum standards and increasing curriculum rigor
  • Boosting critical and creative thinking skills
  • Using assessments to help students demonstrate what they already know
  • Using technology for accelerated learning and to benefit twice-exceptional (2e) students
  • Serving gifted kids with special needs
  • Managing cluster grouping
Digital content includes a full chapter for parents as well as a PDF presentation for professional development, reproducible forms ready to customize and print for classroom use, and additional extension menus for the primary and upper grades.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781631983726
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
Publication date: 09/20/2018
Series: Free Spirit Professional®
Edition description: Fourth Edition, fourth edition, book with digital content
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 5 - 17 Years

About the Author

Susan Winebrenner, M.S., is a full-time consultant in staff development.

She presents workshops and seminars nationally and internationally, helping educators translate educational research into classroom practice.


Dina Brulles, Ph.D., is the gifted program coordinator at Arizona State University and the former director of gifted education at Paradise Valley Unified School District in Arizona. She recently served as NAGC’s Governance Secretary and also as the board’s school district representative.

Dina received the prestigious 2022 NAGC Ann F. Isaacs Founder’s Memorial Award. She was also the recipient of the 2019 and the 2020 NAGC Book of the Year Award (for practitioners), NAGC’s inaugural 2014 Gifted Coordinator Award, and the Professional Development Network Award in 2013.

Dina has actively supported and served as a mentor for the Javits Frasier Scholarship Program since 2010. Dr. Brulles’ work emphasizes and encourages equitable and inclusive identification practices and programming in gifted education. By sharing her interests and experiences, Dr. Brulles supports others in their efforts to develop all our gifted learners’ potential.

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