Classroom Resources

Links checked 7-10-09

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 Gifted Students in Inclusive Settings - Instructional strategies that have been linked to improved student achievement and have been shown to increase critical thinking, problem-solving abilities, and creativity.
8. Teaching Mathematics to Gifted Students in a Mixed-Ability Classroom -Suggestions for teaching all students to work at their own challenge level.
9. Developing Learner Outcomes for Gifted Students. - Suggestions for creating appropriate learner outcomes for gifted students; ERIC Digest #E514 - article by Joyce VanTassel-Baska.
10. 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
11. 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."
12. 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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