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Communication Skills

Introducing the Hamburger Model
English SOL Resources
Creative Strategies for Teaching Language Arts to Gifted Students (K-8)
Guiding the Gifted Reader
Helping Underachieving Boys Read Well and Often
Meeting the Needs of Gifted and Talented Minority Language Students
Flat Stanley Project

Creativity

Treffinger Creativity
Inventive Thinking Project
CPS and Buffalo State
Osborne/Parnes Model (fraley)
South Africa (kobus Neethling)
Win Winger
Creative Process
CPS Process (10 minute and detailed)
Junior Chamber of Commerce Powerpoint
Creativity by Choice, Not by Chance: Developing Imagination In the Intelligence Community
Critical Thinking Community
Children Who Are Gifted, Talented or Creative
Creative Thinking, Theory and Assessment

Convergent Thinking

21st Century Skills
Free Cell Game
Convergent Thinking (Washington)

Critical Thinking

Richard Paul Elements of Reasoning

Divergent Thinking

Teaching Thinking Skills
Eric Digest: How we can teach crtical thinking
Powerpoint Synectics as Model of Teaching

Thinking Skills

Launchpad Thinking Skills
What is Critical Thinking?
Slide Show on Thinking Skills
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Developing Metaconition
Synectics

Gifted

National Assoication of Gifted
Hoagies Gifted Site
Davidson Institute
Vag
ASCD(not gifted but has best practices)
National Research Center (Renzulli)
National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (UVA
Sites for Disabilities and Gifted
SENG
National Centers for Learning Disabilities (Dr. Mary Ruth Coleman)
Duke University
Creative Education Foundation

Assessment and Evaluation

Assessment and Evaluation

Cluster Grouping

Susan Winebrenner
Gentry

Differentiation

Reconcilable Differences? Standards-Based Teaching and Differentiation
Differentiating Instruction for Advanced Learners
Differentiation of Instruction in the Elementary Grades
Differentiation in Math Classroom
High-Ability and Highly Motivated Students (Math)
Teaching Mathematics to Gifted Students in a Mixed-Ability Classroom
Learning Styles ETC.
Differtiation Toolbox
Differentiating Process
Differentiating Curriculum for all students Kaplan
Differentiated Curriculum Devlopment Kaplan
Differentiaiton Defined (UConn)
Math and Science

Giftedness and High Ability

Definitions of Giftedness
Self Directed Learning
Is it a cheetah?

Highly gifted

Tolan Highly gifted

intelligences

Howard Gardner, Multiple InteIligences and education
Thomas Armstrong Multiple Intelligences
Sternberg
Howard Gardner MI
J. P. Guilford Structure of the Intellect
Aptitude-Treatment Interaction (L. Cronbach & R. Snow)

Learner Outcomes

Van Tassel Baska Developing Learner Outcomes

Learning Styles

Learning Styles
I think in pictures, you teach in words

Misc.

Selected Readings: Gifted Students and Educaitonal Reform

Pedagogy

Yvette Jackson Pedagogy of Confidence
Hope
Haberman, Poverty vs Good Teaching
Yvette Jackson, Comprehension and Discipline Literacy:

Powerpoints

Carol Tomlinson
Donald Treffinger self-directed learning
Small Group Investigation Model

Process Tools

Graphic Organizers
Self directed learning in primary school
Sandra Kaplan Task Cards Think Like....

Self-Directed Learning

Gifted Prinary Students
Talent Development and Creativity
Betts: Facilitating Life Long Learners in the Regular Classroom
Multiple Intelligences & Life Long Learning: Betts
Classroom Strategies
Painting Yourself Into the Professional Growth Picture—Artistic Modification

Social and Emotional

Sylvia Rimm
Donna Ford: Counseling African American Students
Underachievement Among Gifted Minority Students: Problems and Promises
Gifted Devlopment Center Linda Silverman
Upside Down School room
Dabrowskis Overexcitabilities
Giftedness As Asynchronous Development
Nature or Nurture

Twice Exceptional

Dual Exceptionalitites
Gifted or ADD

Upcoming Presentations Across the US

Carol Tomlinson upcoming speaking engagements
27th International Conference on Critical Thinking

Math

Virginia SOL
Learning and Mathematics
Differentiaiton in Math
Inclusive Classroom for Math and Science
High ability and highly motivated students (math)
Math in Mixed Ability Classroom
Developing Mathematical Thinking and Questions

Comprehensive School Mathematics Program

CSMP entry page
Primary Program
Intermediate Program
String Game and Minicomputer Materials

Great Math Sites for Teachers

Illuminations (NCTM)
National Council for Teachers of Mathematics
Guess my number
Interactive Games for Students

Math lessons

Place value game

Problem Solving

Solving For Solutions

Science

Inquiry Method
SOL Elementary School Science
Problem-Based Learning in Science

Social Science

History and Social Sciences SOL Resources
African American Musical Hertiage

Primary Sources

Using Primary Sources on the Web
Teaching With Documents:
Resources for National History Day Research
Repositories of Primary Sources on the web
Library Research teaching guides
National Archives
Primary Source.ogr
Civil War Women Primary Sources
Using Primary Sources in the classroom at memory
From revolution to reconstruction
US Historical Documents
Hanover Historical Project
Our documents at .gov
History Firsthand for Elementary Students
Using primary sources printable worksheets
Statistical Resources on the web

Web Portals

brainpower
SOl

Web Quests

Web Quests K-3

Eric Digests

Eric Digests

Multicultural

Donna Y. Ford
Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right
Achievement Gap in Mathematics

Lessons

Lesson Plan Colors Primary
Lesson Plan Mouse and Elephant
Lesson Plan Mosquitoes Buzz
Lesson Plan Homeless
Lesson Plan White Socks (segregation)
Lesson Plan (sterotypes)
Lesson Plan (appreciating oneself)

Cognitive Apprenticeship

Articulation and Reflection
Cognitive Apprenticeship