In today's high-pressured atmosphere to "get the scores up," teachers and students find themselves faced with more and more highly-structured, prescripted lessons that allow for little creativity and exploration. However, both students and teachers deserve a balanced education that includes exciting opportunities to delve into areas of strong interest. An Enrichment Cluster Program presents a framework for offering these opportunities during the regular school week. 
Authors Joseph Renzulli, Marcia Gentry, and Sally Reis present teachers and administrators with all the information and materials they need to develop a successful Enrichment Cluster Program. Seven simple steps show program leaders how to schedule and implement a program, and eight easy-to-follow guidelines help cluster facilitators create engaging and challenging enrichment clusters. This guidebook also includes over 50 pages of reproducible planning forms, surveys, assessment instruments, and staff development handouts; 11 ready-to-use staff development activities; a week-by-week timeline for implementation; a resource guide of how-to books appropriate for a program, and dozens of example cluster descriptions on topics ranging from flight to children's rights to web site design.

Enrichment Clusters: A Practical Plan for Real-World, Student-Driven Learning

Education & Teaching

Gentry, Marcia

Renzulli Ph.D., Joseph

Schools & Teaching

Prufrock Press

The Total School Cluster Grouping Model is a specific, research-based, total-school application of cluster grouping combined with differentiation, focused on meeting the needs of students identified as gifted while also improving teaching, learning, and achievement of all students. This revised and updated second edition of Total School Cluster Grouping and Differentiation includes rationale and research followed by specific steps for developing site-specific applications that will make the important art of differentiation possible by reducing the range of achievement levels in teachers' classrooms. Materials to support staff development-including powerful simulations, evaluation, management, special populations, differentiation strategies, social and emotional needs, and recommended materials-are included.

Total School Cluster Grouping and Differentiation: A Comprehensive, Research-based Plan for Raising Student Achievement and Improving Teacher Practices

Routledge

Enrichment clusters engage students and facilitators in student-driven, real-world learning experiences. Grouped by interest, students working like practicing professionals apply advanced content and methods to develop products and services for authentic audiences. Clusters are scheduled during the school day over an extended period of time and involve all students. This updated second edition of Enrichment Clusters provides the rationale for including this important enrichment program for all students, suggestions for creating buy-in, and a step-by-step guide for successful implementation of a self-sustaining enrichment cluster program within the context of specific schools. Included are staff development activities, suggestions for evaluation and program improvement, guidelines for developing high quality cluster experiences for teachers and students, suggested resources, and everything one needs to develop, implement, and sustain a top-quality enrichment cluster program.

Renzulli, Joseph S.

Reis, Sally M.

The HOPE Teacher Rating Scale is designed to help guide teachers identify gifted students for programming. It is unique in several ways. First, it is short, with only 11 items that measure academic and social/affective components of giftedness, making it easy to use. Second, it is invariant when used to identify students from low-income and culturally diverse families. Third, it can be used across grade levels, K-12. Finally, local norms ensure that the data are relevant to the specific school populations. With multiple measures and multiple pathways crucial for reversing the inequities in identifying culturally, economically, and linguistically diverse students, a teacher-nomination instrument like the HOPE Teacher Rating Scale is an important component of identification systems. The HOPE Teacher Rating Scale items have been well-developed and subjected to research using more than 12,000 diverse students in five validity studies to date. The manual is useful in understanding and interpreting the electronic scores generated from teachers,Äô ratings of their students. This instrument is a must-have for any administrator or gifted-program coordinator involved in student identification.

HOPE Teacher Rating Scale: Involving Teachers in Equitable Identification of Gifted and Talented Students in K-12: Manual

Peters, Scott J.

Pereira, Nielsen

McIntosh, Jason S.

Fugate, C. Matthew

HOPE Teacher Rating Scale Kit: Involving Teachers in Equitable Identification of Gifted and Talented Students in K-12: Manual and Forms

HOPE Teacher Rating Scale Forms: Involving Teachers in Equitable Identification of Gifted and Talented Students in K-12: Set of 50

Total School Cluster Grouping is a specific form of cluster grouping that has a research base, theoretical rationale, and model for successful implementation in schools. Drs. Gentry and Mann detail how the Total School Cluster Grouping Model provides full-time services to high-achieving, high-ability elementary students, helps all students improve their academic achievement and educational self-efficacy, helps teachers more effectively and efficiently meet the diverse needs of their students, and weaves gifted education and talent development know-how into the fabric of all educational practices in the school. In addition, Gentry and Mann present practical methods for quickly and easily differentiating lessons and injecting challenge, interest, and student ideas into classwork and projects.

Total School Cluster Grouping and Differentiation: A Comprehensive, Research-Based Plan for Raising Student Achievement and Improving Teacher Practice

Mann, Rebecca

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