Though nearly 5 million students can be characterized as gifted and talented in the United States, many exceptional learners “fly under the radar.” Because they are not appropriately challenged in the general classroom, they never meet their full potential—in school or in life. Author Jenny Grant Rankin equips general classroom teachers with the information and strategies they need to spot, advocate for, engage, and challenge exceptional learners in their classrooms. Learn how to recognize the challenges of each child, identify the five unexpected traits of exceptional learners, and adjust your teaching to meet the needs of all learners. Filled with useful strategies and poignant personal accounts, this book gives you the “meat” of what you need to prevent those students who need to be challenged and engaged from slipping through the cracks.

Do You Want to Help Your Talented and Gifted Students Fly? Is there anything more engaging than the bright "spark" of a gifted and inquisitive young mind? Is there anything more frustrating than not having the time to develop them to their full potential? Every year all teachers have a few kids who display gifted tendencies, kids who are eager to soak up learning and engage with their teacher at a high level. But I can hear you saying... "I just don't have the time!" There is so much content to teach! Common Core implementation, new curriculum, standards-based testing... every minute of an elementary teacher's day is already packed, and so many students need help catching up to grade level. How in the world can we find time to challenge our high-performing children? In Elementary Einsteins: 4 Simple Steps to Challenging Gifted Students in your Classroom you'll learn exactly how to do it. The good news? It's not hard to individualize for them when you know the four simple steps. And every step is Common-Core aligned! Bonus: free Resources Page on My Website! Your access link inside the book will lead you to: Four videos on gifted student topics Downloadable checklist of all steps in this book Discount coupon for my store Recommended resources for individualizing I love my teacher readers and I'm happy to provide these extra items just for you! Grow Your Gifted Students to Their Maximum Potential, Step-by-Step This book starts with the big picture: How this program can work perfectly with Common Core Characteristics of gifted and talented students Involving gifted students in your classroom community effectively In step 2, it lays the foundation: Some tweaks to lesson planning How to effectively involve gifted kids in student work groups Step 3 is all about how to extend learning and individualizing: Specific strategies to use in math Reading techniques to add rigor Writing, spelling and vocabulary activities Step 4 has you covered for ANY classroom situation! How to manage those "early finishers" Test preparation for students who've already mastered subjects How to work with parents of gifted children Stop "Early Finisher" Behavior Issues What happens when kids get bored? Classroom management issues skyrocket! With these easy-to-implement strategies in place, your gifted students will be on task, on-standard and on to higher levels of engagement that keep them busy in the best possible way: Learning! Let's get started!

Though nearly 5 million students can be characterized as gifted and talented in the United States, many exceptional learners “fly under the radar.” Because they are not appropriately challenged in the general classroom, they never meet their full potential—in school or in life. Author Jenny Grant Rankin equips general classroom teachers with the information and strategies they need to spot, advocate for, engage, and challenge exceptional learners in their classrooms. Learn how to * recognize the challenges of each child, * identify the five unexpected traits of exceptional learners, and * adjust your teaching to meet the needs of all learners. Filled with useful strategies and poignant personal accounts, this book gives you the “meat” of what you need to prevent those students who need to be challenged and engaged from slipping through the cracks.

A lively read from a working teacher offers practical engagement strategies for students with attention challenges If learning is a motor, student engagement is the key. But when teaching students with ADHD and other attention challenges, sometimes even the most finely tuned classroom can sputter. Teach for Attention! is your tool belt of teaching strategies for students with ADHD, low self-confidence, distraction, and other attention challenges. Dozens of true classroom stories show the strategies in action. It’s all about making simple fixes so you can reach every student without changing your approach or revamping your curriculum. Carry these ideas with you like tools on a belt—the right one will be there when you need it!

Gifted students have the potential to learn material earlier and faster, to handle more complexity and abstraction, and to solve complex problems better. This potential, however, needs stimulating experiences from home and school or it will not unfold. The books in the Challenging Units for Gifted Learners series are designed to help teachers provide the stimulating curricula that will nurture this potential in school. The units presented in this series are based on research into how these students actually think differently from their peers and how they use their learning styles and potential not merely to develop intellectual expertise, but to move beyond expertise to the production of new ideas. The Social Studies book includes units that ask students to explore the struggles of America's first permanent English settlement in Jamestown, to hold an African economic summit, to study various Supreme Court cases and primary source documents, and to create a Civil War documentary that views the war from the perspective of a person living in a particular state. Grades 6-8

Challenging Highly Gifted Learners focuses on many of the issues involved in assessing and challenging highly gifted learners. A thorough discussion of the ceiling problems encountered on common assessments is included, as well as strategies for teachers and parents in planning appropriate education. This is one of the books in Prufrock Press' popular Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education. This series offers a unique collection of tightly focused books that provide a concise, practical introduction to important topics concerning the education of gifted children. The guides offer a perfect beginner's introduction to key information about gifted and talented education.