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Working With Gifted Students

Working With Gifted Students . Presented by: Carter Dillow Aja Wright. Definition of “GIFTED”. gift·ed adj. 1. Endowed with great natural ability, intelligence, or talent: a gifted child; a gifted pianist. 2. Revealing special talent: a gifted rendition of the aria.

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Working With Gifted Students

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  1. Working With Gifted Students Presented by: Carter Dillow Aja Wright

  2. Definition of “GIFTED” • gift·edadj. • 1. Endowed with great natural ability, intelligence, or talent: a gifted child; a gifted pianist. • 2. Revealing special talent: a gifted rendition of the aria.

  3. Characteristics of Gifted Students • An intellectually gifted child is characterized by a pattern of attributes in her/his approach to learning. • Gifted students learn quickly and get bored or disruptive unless occupied by an engaging task.

  4. Characteristics of Gifted Students • When they’re good, they’re very, very good, and when they’re bad they’re horrid!

  5. How to Identify Gifted Students • You learned about it last week. Why don’t you tell us how to identify them?

  6. Strategies to Accommodate Gifted Students • Enrichment Curriculum • Special Enrichment Programs • Webquests that allow all students to proceed at their own pace.

  7. Strategies to Accommodate Gifted Students in the Classroom • Give students opportunities to help design and develop their own curricula. • Assign original and independent research projects. • Have enrichment materials ready for review activities.

  8. Strategies to Accommodate Gifted Students in the Classroom • Differentiation of assignments • Choice of assignments • Differentiation of scoring/grading • Choice of grade--Rubrics • Creating differentiable webquests can help with all of the above to allow students to self-pace.

  9. Reference List • Chiapetta, E. & Koballa, T. (2002). Science Instruction in the Middle and Secondary Schools, 5th ed. Merrill Prentice Hall, Columbus OH. • US Department of State, The gifted and talented child, Education Options (11). http://www.state.gov/m/dghr/flo/rsrcs/pubs/7224.htm • ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education, http://ericec.org/fact/myths.html • The Free Dictionary, http://www.thefreedictionary.com/gifted

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