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Gifted students spend most of their time in the regular classroom,
yet few general education teachers have the specialized training to
address their unique needs. This book provides the structures,
processes, and resources needed to facilitate GT (Gifted/Talented)
coaching as a means of building capacity among classroom teachers
to identify, serve, and teach gifted and high-potential learners.
Guided by best practices and research in professional learning,
this resource provides the steps, strategies, and tools needed to
create and sustain effective coaching practices designed to
maximize access to advanced learning and differentiation throughout
a school. Bolstered by downloadable resources, chapters address how
to support, stretch, and sustain teachers’ instructional
practices through a sequence of co-thinking, co-planning, and
reflection that emphasizes ongoing and sustainable professional
learning. Outlining a step-by-step guide for the coaching process,
this valuable resource equips gifted and talented coaches with
tools to support teachers to meet the needs and reveal talent among
gifted and high-potential students through differentiation in the
regular education classroom.
Includes specific thinking models for teaching English language
arts, social studies, and STEM Ideal for teachers who are looking
for ways to differentiate and design lessons for their highest
achieving students Highlights units and models from Vanderbilt
University's Programs for Talented Youth curriculum.
Winner of the 2017 NAGC Curriculum Studies Award Space, Structure,
and Story integrates Earth and space science with science fiction
and nonfiction texts, poetry, and art. This unit, developed by
Vanderbilt University's Programs for Talented Youth, is aligned to
the Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science
Standards. Students explore advanced science and ELA content
through the lens of structure-its parts, purpose, and function.
Mobius strips, the hero's journey, dystopian fiction, black holes,
Einstein's relativity, stars, and moons are just a few of the
captivating in-depth topics explored through accelerated content,
engaging activities, and differentiated tasks. Ideal for gifted
classrooms or gifted pull-out groups, the unit features poetry from
Carl Sandburg, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and C. S. Lewis; art
from M. C. Escher, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, and Salvador
Dali; a novel study featuring A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine
L'Engle; short stories from Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury; speeches
from President John F. Kennedy and President Barack Obama; and
informational texts about gravity, orbits, and black holes. Grades
4-6
Gifted students spend most of their time in the regular classroom,
yet few general education teachers have the specialized training to
address their unique needs. This book provides the structures,
processes, and resources needed to facilitate GT (Gifted/Talented)
coaching as a means of building capacity among classroom teachers
to identify, serve, and teach gifted and high-potential learners.
Guided by best practices and research in professional learning,
this resource provides the steps, strategies, and tools needed to
create and sustain effective coaching practices designed to
maximize access to advanced learning and differentiation throughout
a school. Bolstered by downloadable resources, chapters address how
to support, stretch, and sustain teachers’ instructional
practices through a sequence of co-thinking, co-planning, and
reflection that emphasizes ongoing and sustainable professional
learning. Outlining a step-by-step guide for the coaching process,
this valuable resource equips gifted and talented coaches with
tools to support teachers to meet the needs and reveal talent among
gifted and high-potential students through differentiation in the
regular education classroom.
Includes specific thinking models for teaching English language
arts, social studies, and STEM Ideal for teachers who are looking
for ways to differentiate and design lessons for their highest
achieving students Highlights units and models from Vanderbilt
University's Programs for Talented Youth curriculum.
Winner of the 2016 NAGC Curriculum Studies Award In I, Me, You, We:
Individuality Versus Conformity, students explore essential
questions such as “How does our environment shape our identity?
What are the consequences of conforming to a group? When does
social conformity go too far?†This unit, developed by Vanderbilt
University’s Programs for Talented Youth and aligned to the
Common Core State Standards (CCSS), includes a major emphasis on
rigorous evidence-based discourse through the study of common
themes across rich, challenging nonfiction and fictional texts. The
unit guides students to examine the fine line of individuality
versus conformity through the related concepts of belongingness,
community, civil disobedience, questioning the status quo, and
self-reliance by engaging in creative activities, Socratic
seminars, literary analyses, and debates. Lessons include
close-readings with text-dependent questions, choice-based
differentiated products, rubrics, formative assessments, and ELA
tasks that require students to analyze texts for rhetorical
features, literary elements, and themes through argument,
explanatory, and prose-constructed writing. Ideal for pre-AP and
honors courses, the unit features short stories from Kurt Vonnegut
and Ray Bradbury, poetry from Emily Dickinson and Maya Angelou, art
by M. C. Escher and Pablo Picasso, and primary source documents
from Plato, Eleanor D. Roosevelt, William Bradford, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau. Grades 6-8
Winner of the 2012 NAGC Curriculum Studies Award In the Mind's Eye:
Truth Versus Perception invites students on a philosophical
exploration of the themes of truth and perception. Lessons include
a major emphasis on rigorous evidence-based discourse through the
study of common themes and content-rich, challenging informational
and fictional texts. This unit, developed by Vanderbilt
University's Programs for Talented Youth and aligned to the Common
Core State Standards (CCSS), applies concepts from Plato's
"Allegory of the Cave" to guide students to discover how reality is
presented and interpreted in fiction, nonfiction, art, and media.
Students engage in activities such as Socratic seminars, literary
analyses, skits, and art projects, and creative writing to
understand differing perceptions of reality. Lessons include close
readings with text-dependent questions, choice-based differentiated
products, rubrics, formative assessments, and ELA tasks that
require students to analyze texts for rhetorical features, literary
elements, and themes through argument, explanatory, and
prose-constructed writing. Ideal for pre-AP and honors courses, the
unit features art from M.C. Escher and Vincent Van Gogh, short
stories from Guy de Maupassant and Shirley Jackson, longer texts by
Daniel Keyes and Ray Bradbury, and informational texts related to
sociology, Nazi propaganda, and Christopher Columbus. This unit
encourages students to translate learning to real-life contexts and
problems by exploring themes of disillusionment, social deception,
and the power of perception. Grades 6-8
Finding Freedom invites students to follow America's journey toward
finding freedom by examining multiple perspectives, conflicts,
ideas, and challenges through seminal historical texts. This unit,
developed by Vanderbilt University's Programs for Talented Youth
and aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), features
close readings of some of the most famous American political
speeches from notable Americans, presidents, and minority voices.
To sharpen historical thinking, students analyze arguments for
freedom, examine dissenting perspectives, and reason through
multiple viewpoints of historical issues through debates and
interactive activities. To develop advanced literacy skills,
students evaluate effective rhetorical appeals, claims, supporting
evidence, and techniques that advance arguments. Students
synthesize their learning by comparing speeches to each other,
relating texts to contemporary issues of today, and making
interdisciplinary connections. Lessons include close readings with
text-dependent questions, choice-based differentiated products,
rubrics, formative assessments, social studies content connections,
and ELA tasks that require argument and explanatory writing. Ideal
for pre-AP and honors courses, the unit features speeches from
Patrick Henry, Frederick Douglass, Carrie Chapman Catt, and
Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lincoln, Kennedy, Johnson, George
W. Bush, Obama, and others. Grades 6-8
Winner of NAGC's 2021 Book of the Year Award This must-have
resource: Provides gifted educators with methods and strategies for
successful coplanning, coteaching, coaching, and collaboration.
Enables effective management of differentiation. Increases
educators' understanding of gifted students' needs. Features the
tools and how to steps for facilitating and maintaining
collaborative work in order to challenge and support gifted
students all day, every day. Encourages professional learning and a
focus on shared responsibility and reflection. The book also
includes considerations for working with special populations,
including twice-exceptional students, underachievers, and
culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse learners, as
well as meeting students' social-emotional needs, collaborating
with families and communities, and advocating for gifted education.
Encounters With Archetypes integrates the study of archetypes with
the concept of encounters. This unit, developed by Vanderbilt
University's Programs for Talented Youth, is aligned to the Common
Core State Standards and features accelerated content, creative
products, differentiated tasks, engaging activities, and the use of
in-depth analysis models to develop sophisticated skills in the
language arts. Through the lens of encounter, students will examine
the patterns, symbols, and motifs associated with common archetypes
by analyzing fictional and informational texts, speeches, and
visual media. Students will follow various archetype encounters
with conflicts and challenges to explore questions such as "How do
archetypes reflect the human experience?" and "How do archetypes
reveal human strengths and weaknesses?" Ideal for gifted classrooms
or gifted pull-out groups, the unit features texts from Sandra
Cisneros, Louis Untermeyer, Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson, and
Maya Angelou; biographies of Oprah Winfrey, Mother Teresa, Jackie
Robinson, Sally Ride, and Lin-Manuel Miranda; a speech from
President Ronald Reagan; a novel study featuring Wonder by R. J.
Palacio and/or Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan; and art from
Pieter Bruegel. Grades 4-5
Winner of the 2015 NAGC Curriculum Studies Award Interactions in
Ecology and Literature integrates ecology with the concept of
interactions and the reading of fictional and informational texts.
This unit, developed by Vanderbilt University's Programs for
Talented Youth, is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for
English Language Arts and Next Generation Science Standards.
Students will research questions such as "Should animals be kept in
zoos?" and "Should humans intervene to control overpopulation of
species?" They will examine relationships among living things and
the environment as well as relationships between literary elements
in texts through accelerated content, engaging activities, and
differentiated tasks. Ideal for gifted classrooms or gifted
pull-out groups, the unit features fictional texts from Lynne
Cherry, Katherine Applegate, and Jacqueline Woodson; art from Mark
Rothko and Georges Seurat; informational texts about deforestation
and a variety of animals; biographies about Michael Jordan, J. K.
Rowling, and Walt Disney; and videos about food chains, food webs,
and more. Grades 2-3
Winner of the 2015 NAGC Curriculum Studies Award Perspectives of
Power explores the nature of power in literature, historical
documents, poetry, and art. Lessons include a major focus on
rigorous evidence-based discourse through the study of common
themes and content-rich, challenging nonfiction and fictional
texts. This unit, developed by Vanderbilt University's Programs for
Talented Youth and aligned to the Common Core State Standards
(CCSS), guides students to explore the power of oppression; the
power of the past, present, and future; and the power of personal
response by engaging in simulations, skits, creative projects,
literary analyses, Socratic seminars, and debates. Texts illuminate
content extensions that interest many high-ability students
including bystander effect, social class structure, game theory,
the use and abuse of technology, cultural conflict, the butterfly
effect, women's suffrage, and surrealism as each relates to power.
Lessons include close readings with text-dependent questions,
choice-based differentiated products, rubrics, formative
assessments, and ELA writing tasks that require students to analyze
texts for rhetorical features, literary elements, and themes
through argument, explanatory, and/or prose-constructed writing.
Ideal for pre-AP and honors courses, the unit features texts from
Emily Dickinson, William B. Yeats, and Charles Perrault; art from
Moyo Okediji and Salvador Dali; and speeches by Elie Wiesel, Susan
B. Anthony, and John F. Kennedy. As a result from the learning in
the unit, students will be able to examine powerful influences in
their own lives and identify their own power in personal
responsibility. Grades 6-8
How can we help students develop resilience to persevere in the
face of setbacks? How can we ignite a drive that will inspire them
to sustain effort even through difficulty? This book equips
teachers to deliberately cultivate psychosocial skills, including
self-awareness, problem solving to deal with setbacks, assertive
interpersonal skills, and intellectual risk-taking. By teaching
students to be aware of how their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors
affect their pursuit of excellence, students can learn to tackle
challenges and setbacks that they might experience as they reach to
achieve. Lessons include engaging activities and curriculum
connections, covering topics related to perfectionism, mindset,
grit, stress, procrastination, social-emotional intelligence, and
more. Grades 4-
Gifted students may often perceive that they are valued for what
they do rather than who they are. Performance expectations of the
gifted can lead to the manifestation of perfectionism, yet the
social/emotional needs of gifted students are often ignored within
gifted programs. Characteristics of giftedness including emotional
sensitivity and intensity may magnify perfectionism within gifted
students. The book presents insight to teachers of gifted
classrooms on how to address perfectionism as a primary
intervention. A series of lessons and techniques are described.
Findings support the importance of addressing gifted students'
emotional needs to propel them to achieve, not out of a fear of
failing, but out of the love of learning.
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