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Cluster Grouping of Gifted Students: How To Provide Full-Time Services on a Part-Time Budget. ERIC Digest E607.
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Winebrenner, Susan; Devlin, Barbara – 2001
This digest discusses research that documents the benefits of keeping gifted students together, the advantages and disadvantages of cluster grouping, and how to implement cluster grouping strategies. It argues that cluster grouping allows educators to come much closer to providing better educational services for groups of students with similar…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Cluster Grouping, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
In Search of Reality: Unraveling the Myths about Tracking, Ability Grouping, and the Gifted.
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Fiedler, Ellen D.; Lange, Richard E.; Winebrenner, Susan – Roeper Review, 2002
This reprint of a previously published article describes a study that examined the relationship of six commonly held myths regarding ability grouping to educators' efforts to provide the best instructional programs for all students. The article is preceded by a commentary stressing the need for appropriate services. (Contains references.) (CR)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Classroom Techniques, Educational Practices
Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom: Strategies and Techniques Every Teacher Can Use To Meet the Academic Needs of the Gifted and Talented.
Winebrenner, Susan; Espeland, Pamela, Ed. – 1992
This book is designed to assist teachers in meeting the needs of gifted elementary students in general education classrooms. Each chapter presents a particular teaching/management strategy. The strategies in chapters 1-3 are designed to be used with subject areas that lend themselves to pretesting because it is likely that some gifted students…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cluster Grouping, Cooperative Learning