Teaching Young Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom: Identifying, Nurturing, and Challenging Ages 4-9

This guide encourages and enables teachers to identify gifted children as early as age four and create a learning environment that supports all students. Proven, practical strategies and techniques help you teach to multiple intelligences, compact and extend the curriculum, communicate with parents, and more.

Written for educators (and parents) who believe that all children deserve the best education we can give them, this book encourages and enables you to recognise and nurture giftedness in children as young as age four.

Look inside to find a wealth of proven, practical strategies and techniques you can start using immediately. to: identify giftedness; infuse your classroom with an atmosphere of wonder and an attitude of acceptance and understanding; recognise and reach to multiple intelligences; present the curriculum in creative and challenging ways; assess and document students' development; make the best use of standardised tests; and build partnerships with parents and enlist their support. Includes CD-ROM with 23 reproducible handouts from the book.