Teaching for High Potential (THP) is a quarterly publication for teachers, gifted coordinators, and other professionals interested in engaging and
challenging gifted students in today's schools.
The good news is, after considering
some challenging gifted students I presently work with, I feel confident saying that I am much better prepared to meet their needs.
Once you resolve to
challenge gifted students in your classroom, the next question naturally becomes how do I do that?
Please prepare a written statement in response to two of the following questions: A) How will you design differentiated activities to
challenge gifted students?
A gifted student might be able to grasp new concepts more quickly than the average student, but that just means that you need to find ways to
challenge your gifted student to make sure he keeps on learning.
The Davidsons show parents and educators how to reach and
challenge gifted students.
The Cluster Grouping Handbook: How to
Challenge Gifted Students and Improve Achievement for All.
Not exact matches
The parent of three highly
gifted daughters of her own (one with learning
challenges), throughout her career, Carolyn has designed innovative strategies, as well as unique programs to help
gifted students achieve life success.
Carolyn is currently an educational therapist and educational consultant helping
students, parents, and schools meet the
challenges of
gifted students with learning
challenges through her offices in Santa Monica, California.
The Waldorf schools acknowledge and respect the natural
gifts of each person, encouraging and
challenging students to achieve their fullest human potential.
I could go on ~ but I think you get the point:
gifted students can have their own unique social - emotional
challenges.
When
Gifted Kids Do nt Have All the Answers by Jim Delisle and Judy Galbraith is another book that provides all kinds of activities to help
students with
challenges they may face.
Qhile we look a tthe low performing
students, it is equally important to look at your
gifted student who needs to be
challenged.
Grouping
gifted children together within the classroom (not all the time, but occasionally based on the learning objective at hand) provides them with an opportunity to collaborate with similar - ability
students, which can cause them to positively
challenge each other to higher performance levels.
In other words ~ the Common Core provides
students with the basic skills and thought process to be ready for college and the workplace ~ but the standards were not specifically designed to
challenge and provide differentiation for
gifted children.
This special report looks at the
challenges educators face in adapting the Common Core State Standards for
students with disabilities, English - learners, and
gifted students.
This special report looks at the
challenges educators face in adapting the standards for
students with disabilities, English - learners, and
gifted students.
These tasks are designed to
challenge Gifted and Talented
students.
Because her
students love to hear stories from the popular Chicken Soup series, she uses that to
challenge them to create their own Chicken Soup books to take home as holiday
gifts.
These
students may simply fall in the normal range of differing learning styles and
challenges; they may be «
gifted» in some subjects and not in others.
For these
students to thrive academically and remain
challenged, it is helpful to first view them as being
gifted and see their disability as secondary.
I have an assignment for you this week (sorry, the teacher in me): take a close look at your
gifted and advanced
students and ask yourself this question: Is he or she really being
challenged in my classroom?
When asked during an interview what he thought
gifted students needed from school, Dr. James Webb, founder of Supporting Emotional Needs for Gifted, responded that they need to be chall
gifted students needed from school, Dr. James Webb, founder of Supporting Emotional Needs for
Gifted, responded that they need to be chall
Gifted, responded that they need to be
challenged.
«When we look at the things that are advocated for
gifted and talented
students, there is an argument they should be given to everybody — the enrichment, the
challenge, the recognition and so forth,» he says.
As a teacher of
gifted ~ who uses the independent study method with my first - through - fifth - grade
students ~ I face the
challenge of guiding children through the research process.
Tracy Cross and Nicolas Colangelo both told me they doubt that profoundly
gifted students can be accommodated in the typical public - school classroom: Like profoundly
challenged children, they may need special classes, teachers, and even schools that adapt to their differences.
Just restructure
gifted programs so that there are enough highly and exceptionally
gifted students in one school building, and provide those
students with appropriately
challenging classes.
Both
gifted and
challenged students are in need of strategies that allow them to work at their own pace with high expectations of success.
It takes a straight - forward approach to teaching
gifted students in inclusion settings and provides a host of strategies and lessons to
challenge them, including independent project ideas and enrichment ideas for various subjects.
It's time to end the bias in American education against
gifted and talented pupils and quit assuming that every school must be all things to all
students, a simplistic formula that ends up neglecting all sorts of girls and boys, many of them poor and minority, who would benefit from more
challenging classes and schools.
This is a great way to promote engagement,
challenge students, develop critical thinking, and push
gifted students.
The
challenge is that
gifted students can display similar characteristics as those diagnosed with ADHD, leading to misdiagnosis.
In the first week or two of school, engage your
students in a community circle devoted to discussing the
challenges and
gifts of transitioning to middle school.
Personally, my
gifted students become fiercely engaged in this lesson, and I can almost see the wheels turning in their heads as they try to create
challenging questions that stump classmates.
I agree with Dr. Jim Delisle when he points out the incredible
challenge of trying to educate a highly diverse groups of
students, for instance, some highly
gifted students, struggling readers, English Language Learners, all thrown into one classroom.
Gifted Education as a Whole School Model Dr. Joseph S. Renzulli, director of the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, advocates for lessons that challenge all levels of learners, including gifted stu
Gifted Education as a Whole School Model Dr. Joseph S. Renzulli, director of the National Research Center on the
Gifted and Talented, advocates for lessons that challenge all levels of learners, including gifted stu
Gifted and Talented, advocates for lessons that
challenge all levels of learners, including
gifted stu
gifted students.
Sept. 28, 2011:
Gifted Students Click on E-Learning Our guests discuss how best to serve gifted students in an online learning environment, as well as what challenges may arise for this population of stu
Gifted Students Click on E-Learning Our guests discuss how best to serve gifted students in an online learning environment, as well as what challenges may arise for this population of s
Students Click on E-Learning Our guests discuss how best to serve
gifted students in an online learning environment, as well as what challenges may arise for this population of stu
gifted students in an online learning environment, as well as what challenges may arise for this population of s
students in an online learning environment, as well as what
challenges may arise for this population of
studentsstudents.
Trauma, schooling instability, poverty: Any one of those
challenges can make it harder for
gifted children to be found and to show their strengths, and
students in the foster - care system often have all of those disadvantages and then some.
Dr. Joseph S. Renzulli, director of the National Research Center on the
Gifted and Talented, advocates for lessons that challenge all levels of learners, including gifted stu
Gifted and Talented, advocates for lessons that
challenge all levels of learners, including
gifted stu
gifted students.
Gifted and talented
students present a unique and frequently unmet
challenge.
How can we
challenge the provision of deeper learning - like projects primarily for
students in
Gifted and Talented programs, but not for other
students?
At each grade level, the variety of life science words, for which definitions and contextual sentences are provided, mirror elementary and middle school science curricula so as to engage all learners and
challenge even the most
gifted science
students.
This concept is equally true for academically
gifted as it is for academically
challenged students.
Well, after so many promises about differentiation, a full year's growth, Multi-Tier Systems of Support for high ability
students, curriculum that would
challenge all
students, and other help for
gifted learners, we knew that our school district would never provide what our
gifted daughters needed.
They may be ill - equipped to deal with these additional
challenges coupled with a
student's
gifted characteristics (VanTassel - Baska & Stambaugh, 2005).
Pages include: Measuring Mass using a triple beam balance, Mass vs. weight, Measuring volume using a graduated cylinder, Density of a solid, Density of a liquid, Density
challenge for
gifted and talented
students, Two levels of online assessments.
Our new 6 +1 Trait Writing institute addresses one of the greatest
challenges teachers face today: how to scaffold instruction for diverse learners — including English language learners,
students with special needs and
gifted and talented
students — so that all
students in your classroom become stronger, more confident writers.
Author Jenny Rankin provides quick, easy - to - implement instructional strategies to identify, adequately
challenge, and engage
gifted students both within and beyond the classroom.
While these courses may often provide a more
challenging curriculum than the basic level courses, AP courses are NOT designed for
gifted students, nor does the College Board claim they are.
We are passionate about serving the needs of
gifted students by providing a creative,
challenging and unique learning environment.