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Differentiating Instruction With Centers in the Gifted Classroom: Grades K-8
Author(s): Julia Link Roberts (Author), Julia Roberts Boggess (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1 Jan. 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 158 pages
- ISBN-10: 1593638396
- ISBN-13: 9781593638399
Book Description
Differentiating Instruction With Centers in the Gifted Classroom provides teachers with tons of ideas and guidance for creating unique classroom centers that will challenge gifted learners and encourage high-level, independent thinking. Implementing centers in the gifted classroom gives elementary and middle school teachers the opportunity to develop in-depth learning experiences on a variety of topics. The book discusses the use of centers in each content area, with suggestions from experts in the content areas and easy-to-implement lessons that go beyond the core curriculum.
Grades K-8
Editorial Reviews
Review
Advocating centers to put forth a focused study of a certain topic and give students what they need to excel in their interests, Differentiating Instruction With Centers in the Gifted Classroom is the combination of experience and dedication and leads to a very much recommended pick for teachers and educational administration.,James Cox,Midwest Book Review, 2/1/12
About the Author
Julia Link Roberts, Ph.D., is the Mahurin Professor in Gifted Studies and director and founder of The Center for Gifted Studies at Western Kentucky University. Dr. Roberts was named a Distinguished Professor at Western Kentucky University and was honored as the first recipient of the National Association for Gifted Children David W. Belin Advocacy Award.
She was also named Executive Director of the Center for Gifted Studies and the Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky.
Julia Roberts Boggess is an elementary librarian at Pearre Creek Elementary School in Williamson County, TN. She has taught in the primary grades and has been a gifted resource teacher. In 2008, Mrs. Boggess was awarded an $8,000 Jenny’s Heroes grant from the Jenny Jones Foundation. She has taught drama and literature to elementary and middle school students in Saturday and summer programs offered by The Center for Gifted Studies at Western Kentucky University. Mrs. Boggess earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education, a master’s degree in elementary education with an endorsement in gifted education, and a master’s degree in library media education at Western Kentucky University. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, Mark, and her delightful daughter, Claire.
