Mofield, a professor of education who has experience teaching and leading gifted services, and Phelps, a consulting teacher for gifted education, offer a guide to collaboration, co-teaching, and coaching in gifted education in and outside schools. They provide a structure for how teachers can approach instructional planning and lesson implementation together, and they discuss the definition of collaboration and different collaborative practices, such as co-teaching, coaching, and collaborative consultation, as well as a model for collaboration; collaboration within the context of systemic change; the elements of coplanning for differentiated instruction; coplanning in practice; co-teaching models adapted for gifted education; how specific instructional strategies can be used to design lessons with planned vertical differentiation and deeper inquiry; instructional coaching in the context of gifted education; collaborative consultation in which the teacher or specialist works with a team to develop plans to address the special needs of gifted learners, especially twice-exceptionalities, underachievement, and social-emotional concerns; specific considerations and supports for identifying and serving diverse populations of gifted learners; and collaboration beyond the school, including parent engagement, using community resources, mentorships, and partnering with advocacy groups. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
This must-have resource:
- Provides gifted educators with methods and strategies for successful coplanning, coteaching, coaching, and collaboration.
- Enables effective management of differentiation.
- Increases educators' understanding of gifted students' needs.
- Features the tools and "how-to" steps for facilitating and maintaining collaborative work in order to challenge and support gifted students all day, every day.
- Encourages professional learning and a focus on shared responsibility and reflection.
The book also includes considerations for working with special populations, including twice-exceptional students, underachievers, and culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse learners, as well as meeting students' social-emotional needs, collaborating with families and communities, and advocating for gifted education.
This must-have resource provides gifted education teachers, specialists, and coordinators with methods and strategies for successful coplanning, coteaching, coaching, and collaboration with a variety of school professionals and outside agencies.
Winner of NAGC's 2021 Book of the Year Award
This must-have resource:
- Provides gifted educators with methods and strategies for successful coplanning, coteaching, coaching, and collaboration.
- Enables effective management of differentiation.
- Increases educators' understanding of gifted students' needs.
- Features the tools and how to steps for facilitating and maintaining collaborative work in order to challenge and support gifted students all day, every day.
- Encourages professional learning and a focus on shared responsibility and reflection.
The book also includes considerations for working with special populations, including twice-exceptional students, underachievers, and culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse learners, as well as meeting students' social-emotional needs, collaborating with families and communities, and advocating for gifted education.
