Coaching in Gifted Education: Tools for Building Capacity and Catalyzing Change

by Emily Mofield, Vicki Phelps

Gifted students spend most of their time in the regular classroom, yet few general education teachers have the specialized training to address their unique needs. This book provides the structures, processes, and resources needed to facilitate GT (Gifted/Talented) coaching as a means of building capacity among classroom teachers to identify, serve, and teach gifted and high-potential learners.

Guided by best practices and research in professional learning, this resource provides the steps, strategies, and tools needed to create and sustain effective coaching practices designed to maximize access to advanced learning and differentiation throughout a school. Bolstered by downloadable resources, chapters address how to support, stretch, and sustain teachers’ instructional practices through a sequence of co-thinking, co-planning, and reflection that emphasizes ongoing and sustainable professional learning.

Outlining a step-by-step guide for the coaching process, this valuable resource equips gifted and talented coaches with tools to support teachers to meet the needs and reveal talent among gifted and high-potential students through differentiation in the regular education classroom.

188 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 18, 2023

Reviews

[Görkem Saylam]

Coaching in Gifted Education: Tools for Building Capacity and Catalyzing Change | Emily Mofield
Scoring Rubric
1: baseline
2: creative contextualization bcs of covering almost all basics of coaching for gifteds
1: routine conceptualization bcs of no new holistic comprehension on coaching for gifteds
4: total points by 5

[Amy]

This book provided valuable tools to help bridge the gap in coaching for differentiated learning. I walked away with tools to help me be successful.

[Paula]

I joined a group of educators online to discuss and role play scenarios in this book. The author is so sweet and encouraging.

[Holly Mueller]

I read this book with a new team of gifted education coaches, and we liked the practical ideas. Emily Mofield's work is very good and helpful!