Resources

Teaching TAGS

Talented and Gifted Students

Education Department of Western Australia 1995

Copies available from Supply West

151 Esther Street

Belmont WA, 6104

Phone (08) 9478 7444

ISBN 0 7309 6261 X

The purpose of this kit is to assist classroom teachers in primary schools to:

i) identify gifted and talented students;

ii) provide appropriate curriculum for gifted and talented students; and

iii) evaluate the success of their programs and progress of their gifted and talented students.

 

“Brain Compatible Classrooms”

by Robin Fogarty

Hawker Brownlow Education 1997

ISBN 1 86401 710 4

 

The purpose of this book is to bring the message of the brain research and its implications for the classroom to educators in a user-friendly format.  The book uses the four-corner framework which addresses the elements of setting the climate for thinking, teaching the skills of thinking, structuring the interaction with thinking, and thinking metacognitively about thinking.

 

 

“Multiple Intelligences”

by Dr. Spencer Kagan & Miguel Kagan

Kagan Cooperative Learning 1998

ISBN 1 879097 45 1

 

This book is intended as a resource and guide to translate enthusiasm about the theory of multiple intelligences into educational practices.  It challenges educators to see that if we can engage all intelligences through the instructional strategies we use on a regular basis in our classrooms, we reach each student regardless of his or her particular pattern of intelligence, and foster the development of all facets of all intelligences in all students.

 

 

“Cooperative Learning”

by Dr. Spencer Kagan

Kagan Cooperative Learning 1994

ISBN 1-879097-10-9

 

This book is dedicated to the teachers of the future.  It helps educators provide for a broad range of structures and activities, that when they prepare lessons they would no more dream of trying to teach primarily through Teacher Talk than they would dream of going back to the 20th century.

 

“Cooperative Leaning and Higher Level Thinking – The Q-Matrix”

by Dr. Chuck W. Wiederhold

Kagan Cooperative Learning 1998

ISBN 1-879097-24-9

 

The whole Q-Matrix is based on twelve simple words, most of which have one or two letters! But in combination these words form powerful tools. These simple tools placed in the hands of our students, revolutionize student interaction patterns and thinking.  It is as if Multi-Level Questioning Materials were the key all along, waiting to be discovered.  Now with little effort we can pick up that key and open the door to higher level thinking for all of our students.

 

“So Each May Learn” – Integrating Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences

By Silver, Strong and Perini 2000

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

ISBN 0-87120-387-1

 

As the title suggests, this book addresses a model of integrating the two powerful learning models of multiple intelligences and learning styles to meet the challenge of accommodating and encouraging the full range of student diversity.  The book provides an easy to read background in the theory for both learning models that includes the principles on which they are based.  This is balanced with practical ways of applying the theory to planning, delivery and assessment.

 

 

 

“The Thinking Platform”- Strategies to foster Whole Brain Thinking in the Cooperative Classroom.

by Kate O’Brien & Dan White

K.D. Publications 2001

ISBN 0-9578473-0-0

 

This book is a practical endeavour to provide educators with a combination of fresh new ideas and proven scaffolding techniques to assist in the development of ‘Whole Brian Thinking’ within a ‘Cooperative Classroom’ environment.  It offers a series of 28 lesson strategies designed to engage learning teams in sustained, focused thinking activities.  Each activity attempts to cater for at least two or three of the major thinking styles and to challenge students to cooperatively utilise higher order, critical thinking skills.

 

 

 

“Reflections on classroom thinking strategies” – Practical strategies to encourage thinking in your classroom.”

By Eric Frangenheim

Rodin Educational Consultancy 1998

ISBN 0646-282247

 

All strategies presented in this book offer teachers the opportunity to have a break from active teaching and offer the students an opportunity to be independent learners.  It is therefore an attempt to encourage the transfer of learning energy from behind the teacher’s desk to the learners’ side of the teacher’s desk.

 

 

  

 

 

 

“Higher-level thinking Questions- Developing Character

by Miguel Kagan

Kagan Cooperative Learning 1999 

 

In this book you will find questions, questions, and more questions! But these are no ordinary questions.  These are the important kind – higher-level thinking questions – the kind that stretch your students’ minds; the kind that release your students’ natural curiosity about the world; the kind that rack your students’ brains; the kind that instill in your students a sense of wonderment about your curriculum.

 

 

 

“Community building in the Classroom”

by Vanston Shaw

Kagan Cooperative Learning l992

ISBN 1-879097-14-1

 

This book provides inspiration and a rationale for educational change, presentations of nifty things to do tomorrow in your classroom and a theory of classroom behaviour which explains why students and teachers behave the way they do.  It provides step-by-step structures and lessons to put that theory into practice.

 

 

 

  “Cooperative Learning Structures for Teambuilding”

by Minguel, Laurie & Spencer Kagan

Kagan Cooperative Learning l997

ISBN 1-879097-41-9

 

This book is written for you and your students.  It is loaded with powerful cooperative learning structures and ready-to-use, proven teambuilding activities designed to transform student groups into caring and cooperative teams.

 

 

 

“Higher-level thinking Questions – Personal & Social Skills”

by Miguel Kagan

Kagan Cooperative Learning l999

ISBN 1-879097-55-9

 

This book contains question cards which can be used in a variety of game-like formats to forge students’ thinking skills.  They can be used for cooperative team and pair work, for whole-class questioning, for independent activities, or at learning centres.

 

“Teaching Thinking Skills in the Primary Years”

by Michael Pohl

Hawker Brownlow Education

ISBN 1-86401-660-4

 

This book provides the framework for a whole school approach to the explicit teaching of thinking skills across the primary grades.  The modules can easily be sequenced so that students may be exposed to the diversity of thinking strategies presented in this book before they move into secondary schools.

 

 

Graphic  & Planning Outlines”

For Authentic Instruction and Assessment

By Imogene Forte & Sandra Schurr

Hawker Brownlow

ISBN 1-86401-598-5

In this book you will find useful forms, planning outlines, and graphic organisers.  These are the learning aids whose effectiveness depends on visual organisation of information.

 

 

 

 

 

Resources from Gifted Education Section

Department of Education, Employment and Training

 

Teacher Information Pack

 

Parent Information Pack

 

 

 

 

General Resources

 

Gifted  Students in Primary Schools” – Differentiating the Curriculum

by Gross, Macleoad, Drummond, Merrick

A Gerric Publication, University of New South Wales

 

Diffentiated Programs for Primary Schools

By Eddie Braggett l997

Hawker Brownlow Education