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WHAT GIFTED KIDS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT INTEREST CHALLENGE CHOICE & ENJOYMENT AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT BRIAN HOUSAND - KATIE BLANCHARD - LIZ FOGARTY EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY
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CHALLENGE INTEREST CHOICE ENJOYMENT
The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all children as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects in the same way. - Howard Gardner
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RESEARCH QUESTION ONE: Do gifted students’ perceptions of their educational settings differ? REGULAR CLASS? AIG CLASSROOM? AIG CAMP CLASS
RESEARCH QUESTION TWO: Do gifted students’ perceptions of INTEREST? CHALLENGE? CHOICE? ENJOYMENT in three educational settings differ?
Year Number of Participants ? 2011 2012 2013 65 63 60
My Class Activities • Thirty-‐One questions ? • Five point Likert Scale ? • Addresses interest, challenge, choice, and enjoyment ? • Students self-‐report on a series of questions in regards to each of three educational settings (regular classroom, AIG classroom, camp classroom) ? ?
PROCEDURES • Students registered for and attended camp. ? • Throughout the week at camp, study buddies interviewed their camper using the My Class Activities survey for each of three educational settings (regular classroom, gifted classroom, camp classroom). ? • Survey results were totaled and analyzed.
CONCLUSIONS • Students had different experiences across their three educational settings. ? • The regular classroom’s mean score was the lowest of the three educational settings, suggesting that the regular classroom provides the least amount of student engagement. ? • There were different levels of interest, challenge, choice, and enjoyment across the three classroom settings.
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Long Term, Never Ending Projects • Writing a Novel • Conducting a Survey • Making a webpage • Designing a Science Experiment • Creating a notebook of poetry • Reading • Creating an alphabet book on a topic