Susan Winebrenner

By far the most practical book I've seen for helping elementary children who struggle academically is Teaching Kids with Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom by Susan Winebrenner. It is designed for regular ed teachers without special ed training (so no excessive jargon), gives a number of practical strategies for helping children in all subjects, and has an annotated bibliography with each chapter. Have I ever mentioned that I love annotated bibliographies? :) It's also show more inexpensive and appropriate for homeschooling parents. show less

An excellent resource for teachers with students bored with the traditional curriculum. Winebrenner gives specific strategies that don't consume inordinate amounts of teacher time, explain how to motivate gifted students and keep from discouraging average students. Includes reproducible handouts and annotated resource lists for each chapter.

This book is THE absolute reference for Gifted parenting, Gifted education, Gifted teaching, Gifted differentiation, and for any school librarian, RSP, ERF, etc.

It presents in a few SIMPLE examples and paragraphs, how to identify and manage your students who are "different", whereas overachievers, or underachievers.

The tools and lessons ideas are very specific, but so well explained that they can be adapted to just about any classroom for any student, in any school context. It also presents show more just about all the technics that can be found in more specific books, therefore it's an easy to read introduction to those.

At a very low price (in the ~$20), this is an excellent resource (check for the version with the CDROM of electronic copies of the documents). A must have. show less

Although this is specifically for gifted students, many of the techniques can be easily used for any classroom or for home school either as "alternative activities" for the gifted as the book intends or to replace more traditional methods for students of any ability. I would encourage any teacher to read this book.