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Here are some suggestions on how to handle the gifted students in your classroom.
This article by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development offers a list of tips for teachers. It focuses on suggestions any teacher can use in the classroom to aid their gifted students and promote their achievement in positive ways. Common blunders are also discussed as well as why they can be detrimental to the gifted student.
Teachers can help students shine even brighter by simply adding a few additional strategies to their teaching repertoire.
GIfted Students
It’s the gifted students in our classroom that require the constant redirection to keep their intelligent minds engaged. Here's how to do that.
Anyone who's wrangled two or three dozen gifted minds at once knows there's much more to the story than angelic super-computers who eagerly obey your every whim
Are we failing our high achievers?
This article is a condensed version of an article by the same title from Understanding Our Gifted, Winter 2002.
Reprinted with Permission, Open Space Communications. www.openspacecomm.com
“Children and youth with outstanding talent who perform or show the potential for performing at remarkably high levels of accomplishment when compared with others of their age, experience, or environment.”
– US Department of Education, 1993
London Gifted & Talented creates high quality learning programmes and e-resources to stretch students and support their teachers at Key Stages 1–5 across the curriculum. Our online resources are free to use and accessible from all over the UK and worldwide.
A lack of appropriate recognition and response can lead to problems for gifted children, their families and educators. For example, young gifted children who are not extended in their learning can experience boredom, alienation, social difficulties and depression. Some become underachievers, failing to reach their full potential, and develop negative attitudes towards their early childhood setting or school.
This video is about Identifying Gifted Students
Are we doing our best to make sure we are identifying gifted students at a young age in our schools? Find out in this GT Ignite Minute from Dr. Joyce Juntune...
Relying on teachers and parents to identify candidates for gifted programs appears to discriminate against minority and poor children.
More than 3 million U.S. schoolchildren are classified as gifted. Thousands of others, however, are never identified as gifted and remain underserved because they start school not speaking English.
Are children with high ability or high learning potential being short-changed in Montana?
A short slideshow-type movie of a powerpoint on Gifted Identification in South Carolina that is available on the SC Schools website.
Gifted students in the regular classroom. The inclusional model for gifted students.
Gifted Students: They Myths - created at http://animoto.com
Brian Cooper, Duke TIP director of educational innovation and outreach, discusses the social and emotional characteristics of gifted students.
