This book offers timesaving, classroom-tested strategies for challenging the gifted students in your classroom. Put an end to boredom for bright students with Curriculum Compacting. This effective and practical set of teaching strategies enables teachers to streamline the regular curriculum, ensure student mastery of basic skills, and provide time for challenging enrichment activities or acceleration activities. This highly effective teaching strategy allows every child in a classroom to be challenged.
Curriculum Compacting is a set of strategies that allows any classroom teacher to help students move on to other learning opportunities if they've already mastered the material about to be presented. Also, compacting allows faster learners to move more quickly through the material.
This book offers everything the classroom teacher needs to implement curriculum compacting. The text includes a rationale for using curriculum compacting, an overview of the strategies involved, step-by-step instructions and reproducible forms, and a section addressing common questions posed by teachers using the strategy.
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