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Can anyone recommend resources about how to:

(a) teach regular education teachers to differentiate instruction for the gifted? and

(b) teach gifted-ed. teachers how to differentiate instruction within gifted education classrooms?

I am particularly interested in people who would be useful as consultants. Other resources would be good too.

I believe she's more of a speaker than consultant but I've heard her speak about cluster grouping and gifted programming and she seemed to get it.
- Dr Dina Brulles http://www.nagc.org/bio/dina-brulles

I've also read this book -
http://www.amazon.ca/TEACHING-GIFTED-KIDS-REGULAR-CLASSROOM/dp/1575420899

Haven't seen anything in real life even remotely approaching what the book talks about but maybe somewhere there are teachers than can do this stuff....

The Davidson database has a lot of articles and resources related to this topic.

http://www.davidsongifted.org/db/browse_by_topic_resources.aspx

Beware of differentiated task demands, in which top students are not taught at a higher level (with appropriate curriculum placement, level, pacing, and intellectual peers in their zone of proximal development) but rather are required to produce at a higher level to achieve the same scoring or grades.

Considering the 5Ws may be helpful in keeping the differentiation focused on instruction, as opposed to differentiated work products, deliverables, or task demands.

The differentiated task demands approach sounds like all the worst of differentiation my kids have experienced. Instruction and curriculum must be done together. Gah! Yes, the kid's smart, but still needs a teacher!

I've seen the 5W's quite consistently. The collapse of the system in our experience is that H part....

Thanks, all!

Just reading along in anticipation of a meeting tomorrow that we have. This seems like great advice!