Differentiating for the Young Child: Teaching Strategies Across the Content Areas, PreK-3

Meet the highly diverse needs of primary students with these differentiated teaching strategies!

Designed to help primary teachers value and support the unique experiences and learning styles of diverse young learners, this book offers strategies for promoting intellectual discovery and creative thinking across key discipline areas, tackles issues related to underserved students, and discusses differentiated technology use. This second edition:

• Includes new charts with strategies for differentiating lessons in math, science, social studies, and language arts
• Presents new focus questions to help teachers clarify their own priorities and target student needs efficiently
• Offers Web sites for further reference

Author: Joan F. Smutny
Publisher: Corwin Publishers
Published: 11/09/2009
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781412975551

About the Author
Joan Franklin Smutny is founder and director of the Center for Gifted at National-Louis University. She directs programs for thousands of gifted children in the Chicago area annually. She also teaches creative writing in many of these programs as well as courses on gifted education for graduate students at the university. She is editor of the Illinois Association for Gifted Children Journal, contributing editor of Understanding Our Gifted and the Roeper Review, a regular contributor to the Gifted Education Communicator, Parenting for High Potential and the Gifted Education Press Quarterly. Smutny has authored, coauthored, and edited many articles and books on gifted education for teachers and parents, including Igniting Creativity in Gifted Learners, K-6 (2009), Acceleration for Gifted Learners, K-5 (2007), Reclaiming the Lives of Gifted Girls and Women (2007), and Differentiating for the Young Child, first edition (2004), and Designing and Developing Programs for Gifted Children (2003). Other recent credits include Underserved Gifted Populations (2003); Gifted Education: Promising Practices (2003), and Stand Up for Your Gifted Child (2001). In 1996, she won the NAGC Distinguished Service Award for outstanding contribution to the field of gifted education.

S. E. von Fremd is an independent scholar, writer, and editor with a background in education, cultural studies, and dance. She performed with the Never Stop Moving Dance Company in Chicago under the direction of Reynaldo Martinez and taught creative dance and theater to children in the city and surrounding areas. Her interest in creativity and culture eventually led her to do a doctorate in performance studies at Northwestern University. This included a year′s research in Uganda, where she focused on the role of popular theater and dance in reviving cultural identity and educating children and young people throughout the country. She has written several book reviews on African musical traditions, a monograph on the cultural legacy of Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiong′o and Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka, a monograph on refugees in Africa, and an article on the performing arts as a popular forum for education in Uganda. She has also given presentations on Uganda′s creative artists under the reign of Idi Amin and on dance movements throughout the continent of Africa. She collaborated with Joan Smutny on the first edition of Differentiating for the Young Child (2004) as well as with Igniting Creativity for Gifted Learners, K-6 (2008).

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