ABSTRACT

Teacher's Survival Guide: Gifted Education is packed with practical information, up-to-date resources, tips for success, and advice from experts in the field. This updated second edition:

  • Is the perfect introduction to gifted education for beginning and early career educators.
  • Provides field-tested, proven strategies.
  • Is designed to help teachers build their understanding of gifted education and gifted learners.
  • Covers topics essential to gifted education teachers, including identifying giftedness and encouraging creativity.
  • Includes tips for providing resources and opportunities to spur talent development.

Each chapter features a key question, making the book ideal for an engaging book study, as well as survival tips and a survival toolkit of resources to keep readers on course as they navigate through gifted ed.

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

chapter Chapter 1|6 pages

Let's Start at the Very Beginning

Who Are Gifted Children?

chapter Chapter 2|6 pages

Find Out What You Do First

chapter Chapter 3|8 pages

Building Broad-Based Support for Gifted Education

chapter Chapter 5|7 pages

Recognizing Differences Among Gifted Children

chapter Chapter 6|17 pages

Identifying Gifted Students

chapter Chapter 7|9 pages

Educators as Talent Developers

chapter Chapter 9|7 pages

Acceleration

Accommodating a Different Pace for Learning

chapter Chapter 10|7 pages

Making Differentiation Defensible

chapter Chapter 12|12 pages

Strategies to Light the Fire of Learning

chapter Chapter 13|19 pages

Strategies to Differentiate Instruction

chapter Chapter 14|8 pages

Excellence

An Important Yet Elusive Goal in Schools

chapter Chapter 15|9 pages

A Tough Choice for Some

An “A” Today or Preparation to Be Successful Tomorrow

chapter Chapter 16|13 pages

Encourage Creativity

The Edge for the Future

chapter Chapter 17|9 pages

Nurturing Leaders

A Necessity, Not an Option

chapter Chapter 18|8 pages

Creating a Gold Standard School and District

chapter Chapter 20|12 pages

Opportunities Galore

chapter Chapter 21|14 pages

Unlocking Considerations That Often Mask Giftedness