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See yourself on the first day of school. Realize that you have a very wide variety of students to teach this year. Connect with the feeling of your stomach being upset and acknowledge the fear of rising to the occasion of accommodating so much diversity. You have already been told you will have no aides or student teachers for this experience. You hear a thought inside your head "I'm not ready for this." You are at a book Fair, see "Facilitating Forward Progress With All Your Students Without Going Crazy," and you purchase it. Sitting in the back seat of another driver's car, you start reading the pages, and your anxiety diminishes. The ideas for differentiating your classroom, grouping and regrouping students for pinpointed instruction, and using assessments and technology assure you that meeting the needs of your students is possible. Hallelujah...It will be a great year!
About the author
Susan Winebrenner has an M.S. in curriculum and instruction and a B.S. in education. A former classroom teacher and gifted program coordinator, Susan is an internationally recognized leader in the field of gifted education. She is the author of several books and teaching resources, including Differentiating Content for Gifted Learners in Grades 6-12, Teaching Kids with Learning Difficulties in Today's Classroom (with Lisa M. Kiss), and The Cluster Grouping Handbook and Teaching Gifted Kids in Today's Classroom Professional Development Multimedia Package (both with Dina Brulles). Through her consulting and workshop business, Education Consulting Service, Susan presents seminars nationally and internationally, helping educators translate education research into classroom practice. She has contributed articles to various educational publications and served on the faculty of New Leaders for New Schools. She lives in San Diego, California. Visit Susan's website at susanwinebrenner.com. Special Award from CA Gifted Education. Who's Who in America Award. Sold over 100,000 books over her career as an author.
