The Ultimate Guide for Student Product Development and Evaluation


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Introduce your students to the wonderfully creative products found in The Ultimate Guide for Student Product Development and Evaluation! This book offers a step-by-step introduction to confidently using creative products in your classroom. The authors offer ideas for integrating products into your existing curriculum, ways to help students plan and create their products, and easy and effective evaluation strategies. The book also offers many strategies for making sure that your students' hard work is noticed by other students, parents, and community members. With descriptions and evaluation criteria for more than 45 creative products, from dioramas to scripts and musical performances, the possibilities for displaying your knowledge and ideas through original products are limitless. Of course, what would The Ultimate Guide be without the ultimate student product planner? This reproducible student planner takes your students step-by-step through every phase of the product development process. A sure hit with students who tend to wait until the last minute, the student planner is a perfect cure for the chronic procrastinator. Filled with more than 250 pages of creative product ideas, suggested evaluation methods, and common sense teaching advice, this book promises to bring learning to life in your classroom! Book jacket.




Prank University


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BAD BEHAVIOR 101 Forget about Punk’d. Or any of those other stupid hidden camera shows. Executing the perfect prank is an art that demands deft craftsmanship and sly cunning. Whether you’re talking about a good-natured practical joke between roommates or an elaborate hit against a nosy neighbor, nothing sends a message with satisfying elegance like a well-designed prank. But how can you, just some regular schmo, become an ultimate prankster? Welcome to Prank University! Here are 100 essential pranks—from classics such as Doorbell Drench and Silly-String Sleep to more modern operations like Quick Leg Shave, Wasabi Paste, and Plastic Forking (you’ll have to look inside for that one, but trust us, it’s good). Step-by-step instructions and ingenious diagrams make these diabolical schemes all too easy. An icon system denotes prank difficulty as well as the number of accomplices needed, costs involved (if any), and whether to film the event for posterity. Just remember to use this information judiciously . . . you never know when some young jokester (also armed with this book) might be coming after you. With Prank University, jackass class is in session!




Strategies for Differentiating Instruction


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Offers teachers practical strategies designed to help students learn by appropriately challenging levels and making continuous progress by focusing on their varying levels of knowledge and readiness to learn.




Alternative Assessments With Gifted and Talented Students


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Alternative Assessments With Gifted and Talented Students provides a concise and thorough introduction to methods for identifying gifted students in the school setting. Including overviews of assessment tools and alternative methods of assessment, as well as pertinent discussions concerning the need to identify gifted and talented students, this book combines research and experience from top scholars in the field of gifted education in a convenient guide for teachers, administrators, and gifted education program directors. Topics covered include the need for nonverbal testing with traditionally unidentified students; the identification of students from minority populations; the value of using traditional assessments with students; the role of creativity tools as a measure of giftedness; and the use of portfolios, products, and performance-based assessment to document learning; among others. This handy guide to assessing and identifying gifted students is a necessity for anyone serving and working with this population. A service publication of the National Association for Gifted Children (Washington, DC)This designation indicates that this book has been jointly developed with NAGC and that this book passes the highest standards of scholarship, research, and practice.




Fostering Creativity in Gifted Students


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It is not possible to teach someone to be creative. It is not possible to teach someone to be intelligent. It is, however, possible to teach students to use the creativity and intelligence they already have. Students can be taught to think more creatively or intelligently, and can also learn strategies for thinking more rationally or imaginatively. Encouraging creative thinking in the classroom is an exciting component of any effective gifted education program. This guide offers basic foundations required for supporting creativity. From establishing the right classroom environment, to using creative teaching strategies, to assessing student outcomes, this book is filled with practical information. The book also includes a listing of competitive contests and programs and an extensive list of resources. 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.




Teaching Culturally Diverse Gifted Students


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This is an easy way to nurture all seven intelligences and provide opportunities for each student to work in a way that is most appropriate for his or her abilities.




Research in the Real Classroom


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Your upper elementary students can begin learning lifelong research skills! This, the second volume of the Research in the Real Classroom series, modifies the IIM process for every skill level in your 3-5 classroom. Includes CD of both read-to-use and customizable reproducibles.




Teacher's Survival Guide


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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.




IIM


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Aligned with the CCSS and the TEKS College and Career Readiness Standards, IIM: Teaching Research Skills in Grades K-12 offers a comprehensive plan for integrating a schoolwide research program into existing curriculum. The seven-step Independent Investigation Method (IIM) guides students through group and independent research projects, empowering them with the skills to conduct research in any discipline and to pursue projects in subjects of most interest to them. This teacher's manual provides the tools to implement the IIM program with students at all grade levels, acting as a template on which to build curriculum that both fulfills local and state requirements and is appropriate for all students' skill levels and needs. This manual includes: steps for the whole-class process, in which students learn basic research skills; steps for the independent process, in which students apply skills in individual and small-group studies; reproducible pages for designing and implementing units; sample research studies using the independent process; reproducible assessment forms and student handouts; teacher resource pages; and online access to editable teacher, student, and assessment forms. Grades K-12




Methods and Materials for Teaching the Gifted


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The newly revised and updated fourth edition of Methods and Materials for Teaching the Gifted is an excellent introduction to gifted education and real-world learning. The chapters of this comprehensive textbook are written by respected leaders in the field of gifted education. The authors review the unique needs of gifted learners and give current information on instructional planning and evaluation, strategies for best practices, and ongoing enhancement and support of gifted programs. Chapters include topics such as differentiated curricular design, extending learning through research, writing challenging instructional units, and developing leadership skills and innovative thinkers. Instructional practices such as problem-based learning, technology literacy, independent study, simulation and gaming, and more are addressed. A special focus is given to using the Gifted Education Programming Standards and Common Core State Standards. The fourth edition provides updated information on funding sources and public relations strategies for gifted education programs. It also includes updated lists of books, teaching materials, websites, and other resources for teachers of the gifted.