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

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This book is great! Every elementary teacher should be required to read this. This book helps teachers to identify and help their gifted students in a regular classroom. This helps to break some of the myths about giftedness as well as providing useful material teachers can apply without additional budget. Please value this advice because the lack of gifted programming in our schools is leading to unusually high numbers of unmotivated, underachieving, depressed, and work inhibited gifted students. The schools dropped the programs due to lack of budget. The new teachers are untrained in identifying and helping the gifted so they blame the families. The parents and students are begging and pleading for the schools to add appropriate challenges so the gifted students might value their education.

This book inspires teachers to keep a sharp lookout for bright young students--including those who may not appear "high-ability" at first glance! Students will be happier and more productive both at school and at home if teachers and parents used approaches to learning described in this book. I think it would make a wonderful gift from parents to a teacher at a parent-teacher conference!