The relationship between collaboration and gifted and talented students often is assumed to be an easy and successful learning experience. However, the transition from working alone to working with others necessitates an understanding of issues related to ability, sociability, and mobility. Collaboration has been identified as both an asset and a liability and as a constructive or destructive quality of personal or group achievements and innovations. The necessity to develop both an appreciation for and the skill sets required to collaborate is noted formally with references to the 21st Century Skills and the Common Core State Standards. Here, author Sandra Kaplan provides examples of curriculum tasks that can be integrated into the core curriculum to explicitly teach the skills of collaboration across the grade levels. These include self-assessment, roles, and goals.