Get the benefit of in-person author workshops for a fraction of the cost with this comprehensive professional development resource. Teachers will be introduced to proven, practical classroom strategies for meeting the needs of gifted learners, whether they work in a mixed-ability classroom, cluster classroom, gifted-education classroom, resource room, or another setting. The package includes:• DVD (100+ minutes) featuring top-selling authors Susan Winebrenner and Dina Brulles along with actual classroom teaching sessions that illustrate key strategies from the book• A copy of the book Teaching Gifted Kids in Today’s Classroom• Digital content containing all of the customizable reproducible forms from the book along with an introductory PowerPoint presentation• Study Group Leader’s Guide that directs users through the book and the video as they use these in study groups or other forms of staff development (softcover, spiral bound, 8½” x 11½”, 96 pp.) In addition to discussion and modeling of pivotal teaching strategies, the resource covers 21st century learning, assessment, technology, RTI, and schoolwide cluster grouping.

Teaching Gifted Kids in Today’s Classroom Professional Development Multimedia Package (Free Spirit Professional®)

Education & Teaching

Brulles, Dina

Winebrenner, Susan

Schools & Teaching

Free Spirit Publishing

Differentiated Lessons for Every Learner supports middle school teachers in teaching all students, including those with high ability. The book contains lessons in each content area with learning activities that align to the national content standards, embed ELA Common Core Standards, and correlate to DOK levels. The lesson extensions provide for active learning tailored to address multiple learning levels. Using this semi-structured process ensures differentiated learning experiences that align to the standards while also respecting that students have different interests, different methods of learning, and most importantly, that they are learning at different challenge levels. The time is now upon us to emphasize interdisciplinary learning experiences that provide real-world connections and engage students in relevant and meaningful learning. We have long known that while critical for gifted and talented students, these higher level thinking strategies benefit all students.

Differentiated Lessons for Every Learner: Standards-Based Activities and Extensions for Middle School (Grades 6-8)

Brown, Karen L.

Routledge

This book is intended to support educators in the design and implementation of comprehensive gifted education plans. From planning to actual implementation, this book takes the reader from goals and purpose to assessing student needs and program design. The authors begin with a broad overview of best practices in programming and services, highlighting connections to student needs, programming standards, and state laws. Their recommendations include philosophical, cultural, and practical considerations and data-based decision making. In this book, Peters and Brulles guide the reader through the process of determining the most optimal programming methods for schools to take based on their individual needs and circumstances. With this book, schools will be able to design and develop programs and/or services that lay the foundation necessary to ensure all students are appropriately challenged.

Designing Gifted Education Programs and Services: From Purpose to Implementation

Peters, Scott J.

Master flexible grouping and differentiation strategies to challenge every learner, every day. Grouping learners purposefully throughout the school day based on their needs and the curriculum remains the single best way to differentiate instruction. This award-winning guide will help teachers expertly use flexible grouping and differentiation strategies to respond to students’ diverse learning needs, abilities, and interests. Included are methods for creating groups based on assessment data, planning group lessons and tiered assignments, engaging learners at all levels, supporting personalized learning, grading collaborative work, and communicating with parents about the benefits of groupwork and productive struggle. Digital content contains all forms from the book and a PDF presentation. A free online PLC/Book Study Guide is available at freespirit.com/PLC.

A Teacher's Guide to Flexible Grouping and Collaborative Learning: Form, Manage, Assess, and Differentiate in Groups (Free Spirit Professional®)

Definitive resource for implementing, sustaining, and evaluating schoolwide cluster grouping, fully revised and expanded. In today’s standards-driven era, how can teachers motivate and challenge gifted students and ensure that all students reach their potential? This book provides a compelling answer: the Schoolwide Cluster Grouping Model. The authors explain how the model differs from grouping practices of the past, and they present a roadmap for implementing, sustaining, and evaluating schoolwide cluster grouping. Readers will find a wealth of teacher-tested classroom strategies along with detailed information on identifying gifted students for clusters, gaining support from parents, and providing ongoing professional development to teachers and other staff. The new edition: <ul>
<li>offers identification and placement guidance for a wide variety of student ages and populations</li>
<li>directs special attention toward empowering gifted English language learners</li>
<li>shows teachers how to use the Depth of Knowledge framework to differentiate learning tasks</li>
<li>offers new ideas for integrating technology into both professional development and student learning</li>
</ul>
 The Cluster Grouping Handbook offers a guide for schools to create a workable, defensible gifted program; to simplify teachers’ jobs; and to maximize learning for all students. Digital content includes customizable forms from the book and a PDF presentation; a free PLC/Book Study Guide is also available.

The Cluster Grouping Handbook: How to Challenge Gifted Students and Improve Achievement for All (Free Spirit Professional®)

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: <ul>
<li>Compacting and differentiating skill work and new content</li>
<li>Extending reading and writing instruction</li>
<li>Planning curriculum for all students at the same time</li>
<li>Supporting self-directed independent study</li>
<li>Supporting curriculum standards and increasing curriculum rigor</li>
<li>Boosting critical and creative thinking skills</li>
<li>Using assessments to help students demonstrate what they already know</li>
<li>Using technology for accelerated learning and to benefit twice-exceptional (2e) students</li>
<li>Serving gifted kids with special needs</li>
<li>Managing cluster grouping</li>
</ul> 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.

Teaching Gifted Kids in Today's Classroom: Strategies and Techniques Every Teacher Can Use (Free Spirit Professional®)

An accessible guide to identifying gifted students and creating equity and inclusion within gifted programs.\nThe Naglieri tests (the NNAT series) have long been a standard in the field of ability testing. Amid the calls for equity and inclusion within gifted education, the new Naglieri General Ability Tests aim to meet that need. This companion, Understanding and Using the Naglieri General Ability Tests, offers educators administering the tests or who have students taking the tests a guide to the why, how, and what now.\nSplit into three parts, Understanding and Using the Naglieri General Ability Tests covers: why there is a need for these new ability tests for gifted identification how these new tests and test data are used most effectively to identify gifted students from all racial, cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic backgrounds what educators can do now to create equity and inclusion within gifted programs and services. Written by well-known gifted education experts Dina M. Brulles, Ph.D., Kimberly Lansdowne, Ph.D., and Jack A. Naglieri, Ph.D., Understanding and Using the Naglieri General Ability Tests provides administrators, gifted coordinators, and teachers with clear direction for answering the call for equity and inclusion in education.

Understanding and Using the Naglieri General Ability Tests: A Call for Equity in Gifted Education (Free Spirit Professional®)

Lansdowne, Kim

Naglieri, Jack

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