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Tomlinson, Carol Ann – Understanding Our Gifted, 2001
This article discusses how regular classroom teachers can use high level curriculum as a catalyst for identifying and nurturing gifted students. It describes the characteristics of a differentiated classroom, how differentiation might look for advanced learners, why differentiated instruction is needed for advanced learners, and how parents can…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Classroom Environment, Curriculum Design, Elementary Secondary Education
Starko, Alane Jordan – 2001
This book is designed to help teachers link research and theory regarding creativity to the everyday activities of classroom teaching, providing enough theory and enough examples of applications to enable teachers to convert what they learn to their everyday grouping arrangements, lesson plans, assessment activities, and grading schemes. The book…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Download full textEllis, Julia – 1993
This paper examines classroom dynamics that can lead to adolescent girls doubting their ability, creativity, and importance. Before children even start attending school, girls have learned verbal and physical self-restraint, thus requiring teachers to give more attention to boys who are more difficult to control. At school, intelligence is…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Females
Waxman, Barbara; Robinson, Nancy M.; Mukhopadhyay, Swapha – 1996
This book is an outgrowth of a 2-year study of 284 children discovered during preschool or kindergarten to be advanced in mathematics. In addition to psychometric and cognitive testing conducted at the beginning, middle, and end of the study, half of the children attended biweekly interventions designed to enrich their experience with mathematics.…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Early Childhood Education, Early Identification, Educational Strategies
Smutny, Joan Franklin – 1998
This booklet discusses and provides suggestions for meeting the educational needs of gifted girls. The first chapter, "The Needs of Gifted Girls," describes the problem of underachievement among gifted girls and strategies that educators can use to support individuality, reduce perfectionism, encourage freedom, recognize socioeconomic and ethnic…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Change Strategies, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Stepanek, Jennifer – 1999
This booklet offers teachers a variety of strategies and resources for providing different levels of content and activities that will challenge all students, including gifted learners. It begins by discussing evolving definitions of giftedness and theories of intelligence. Means of identifying gifted students and indicators of mathematical and…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Classroom Environment
