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Download full textWinebrenner, Susan; Devlin, Barbara – 1996
This digest in a question and answer format, provides basic information on cluster grouping of gifted students. Questions address such concerns as: the meaning of cluster grouping, differences between cluster grouping and tracking, advantages of cluster grouping, learning needs of gifted students, the argument that gifted education is elitist, the…
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Educational Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
Winebrenner, Susan; Devlin, Barbara – 1991
This fact sheet on cluster grouping of gifted students explains what cluster groups are, contrasts cluster grouping with tracking, offers a rationale for cluster grouping, outlines the special learning needs of gifted students, lists specific skills needed by cluster teachers, points out that cluster grouping should supplement rather than replace…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Cluster Grouping, Educational Methods, Elementary Secondary Education
Winebrenner, Susan – Understanding Our Gifted, 2002
The following strategies are presented for creating conditions in which gifted students consistently move forward academically: curriculum compacting and differentiating for gifted students in heterogeneous classes; pre-testing content; and allowing gifted students to be grouped together to work on alternative tasks during cooperative learning…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education
Winebrenner, Susan; Devlin, Barbara – 2001
This digest discusses research that documents the benefits of keeping gifted students together, the advantages and disadvantages of cluster grouping, and how to implement cluster grouping strategies. It argues that cluster grouping allows educators to come much closer to providing better educational services for groups of students with similar…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Cluster Grouping, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
Peer reviewedFiedler, Ellen D.; Lange, Richard E.; Winebrenner, Susan – Roeper Review, 2002
This reprint of a previously published article describes a study that examined the relationship of six commonly held myths regarding ability grouping to educators' efforts to provide the best instructional programs for all students. The article is preceded by a commentary stressing the need for appropriate services. (Contains references.) (CR)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Classroom Techniques, Educational Practices
Fiedler-Brand, Ellen; Lange, Richard E.; Winebrenner, Susan – 1992
This brief bulletin addresses seven "myths" of tracking or ability grouping with gifted students in response to what is seen as a current movement against both ability grouping and tracking, which are characterized by the "anti-tracking" movement as inflexible and unaccommodating of a varied schedule. The following myths are countered: (1)…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cooperative Learning, Educational Principles, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedWinebrenner, Susan; Devlin, Barbara – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1998
Using a question-and-answer format, this research digest discusses using cluster grouping in regular classes to teach gifted students. The learning needs of gifted students, benefits of cluster grouping, the effects on peers, identification of students for the cluster group, and specific skills that are needed by cluster teachers are addressed.…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Classroom Techniques, Cluster Grouping, Educational Methods
Winebrenner, Susan; Espeland, Pamela, Ed. – 1992
This book is designed to assist teachers in meeting the needs of gifted elementary students in general education classrooms. Each chapter presents a particular teaching/management strategy. The strategies in chapters 1-3 are designed to be used with subject areas that lend themselves to pretesting because it is likely that some gifted students…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cluster Grouping, Cooperative Learning
