The Room Meeting for G/T Students in an Inclusion Classroom

Classroom management can be enhanced and improved a great deal by weekly cooperative class meetings in which gifted and talented children are given opportunities to offer ideas, solutions, and creative insights (Webb & Palincsar, 1996). All children can and should be encouraged to participate and offer ideas, but the advanced thinking skills, creative abilities, and diverse personal and social characteristics of the gifted and talented make them a particularly rich source of ideas for classroom management ideas. These meetings offered good opportunities for children to learn leadership skills, to engage in cooperative learning to enhance their learning of subject matter, and, for the gifted and talented, to master higher level cognitive and social skills.