Valley Park Gifted Education & eMINTS Program              
Valley Park School District, One Main Street, Valley Park, MO 63088                                            
Email address: jrhoades@vp.k12.mo.us  Phone: 636.923.3593  Fax: 636.225.4518                         
     

Jaime Rhoades, M.A.Ed., Ed.S., Gifted Education Program Coordinator                                                   

"All of us do not have an equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent."  - John F. Kennedy

 

Bright Child versus Gifted Learner 

 

Gifted Cluster Grouping Program

Gifted students in grades 1-5 are placed in small groups (called clusters) in a larger, mixed-ability, regular classroom known as a Gifted Cluster Classroom. Teachers in these classrooms receive training in gifted education, differentiation and acceleration. The teachers modify the regular education curriculum to meet the individual needs of the gifted students.  Below are links to some articles pertaining to gifted cluster grouping.

Ability Grouping Is Not Just Tracking Anymore by Carol L. Tieso

An Analysis of the Research on Ability Grouping by James Kulik

Challenging Gifted Students in the Regular Classroom by Beverly N. Parke

Cluster Grouping Coast to Coast by Patricia A. Schuler

Cluster Grouping of Gifted students: How to Provide Full-time Services on a Part-time Budget: Update 2001 by Susan Winebrenner and Barbara Devlin

Differentiating Curriculum for Gifted Students by Sandra L. Berger

Differentiating Instruction for Advanced Learners in the Mixed-Ability Middle School Classroom by Carol Ann Tomlinson

Differentiation of Instruction in the Elementary Grades by Carol Ann Tomlinson

The Elephant in the Classroom by Ellis Page and Timothy Keith

Grouping the Gifted and Talented: Questions and Answers by Karen B. Rogers

How Should We Group to Achieve Excellence With Equity? by Bonnie Grossen

Providing Curriculum Alternatives to Motivate Gifted Students by Susan Winebrenner and Sandra Berger

Teaching Young Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom by Joan Franklin Smutny

The Tracking and Ability Grouping Debate by Tom Loveless

Within-Class Cluster Grouping and Related Strategies: Brief Summaries by Joseph Renzulli and Harry Milne

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