Engaging & Challenging Gifted Students: Tips for Supporting Extraordinary Minds in Your Classroom (ASCD Arias)

Jenny Grant Rankin

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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.

Bonus online content: Download 10+ pages of additional strategies and personal accounts, including a form for your notes on each gifted student.

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About the Author

JENNY GRANT RANKIN, PhD, teaches the Postdoc Masterclass at the University of Cambridge. An award-winning former teacher with a majority of her students being socioeconomically disadvantaged English learners, she specialized in using data, differentiation, and creative instruction to ensure that her exceptional students were being challenged and engaged even as they learned alongside struggling and grade-level learners.  Read more