Classroom Resources

Links verified 11/15/11

1. Challenging Gifted Students in the Regular Classroom - Bringing sound instruction to gifted students in regular classroom settings.
2. Meeting the Need of Gifted Students in the Regular Classroom - Suggestions that will help you develop a classroom environment that will challenge and nurture gifted learners.
3. Modifying Regular Classroom Curriculum for Gifted and Talented Students - Addresses the challenges of meeting the needs of students with high-ability.
4. Providing Curriculum Alternatives To Motivate Gifted Students - This digest presents two strategies to help highly able students get more out of school.
5. Resources for Teaching Gifted and Talented Students - Scroll past the advertisement and take a look at the links starting in the middle of the page.
6. Setting "Motivation Traps" for Underachieving Gifted Students - "Using my students' interests to help them learn and to keep them engaged." Article by Donna Y. Ford, Sheila R. Alber, and William L. Heward.
7. Teaching Mathematics to Gifted Students in a Mixed-Ability Classroom - Suggestions for teaching all students to work at their own challenge level.
8. Developing Learner Outcomes for Gifted Students. - Suggestions for creating appropriate learner outcomes for gifted students; ERIC Digest #E514 - article by Joyce VanTassel-Baska.
9. Differentiating Curriculum for Gifted Students - A PPT show created by Tamra Stambaugh, Ph.D., College of William and Mary, Center for Gifted Education Tlstam@wm.edu
10. A Different Place - "This site offers high level differentiated content curriculum for high-ability and gifted students in the classroom. All of these activities are technology integrated."
11. Teachers' Resources from A Different Place - Units/lesson plans that are good for gifted and high ability students that are not self directed lessons for students to complete on computer.

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