Sep 22, 2014
SHOW SITE: http://www.courtneyanderson.com/swca-episode-195-educatorsrsquo-eden-series-teaching-gifted-students.html
SHOW NOTES: This episode is, “Teaching Gifted Students!”
In this show we discuss A
Stone* of Solutions™ including:
1) Full disclosure, I was in gifted (or gifted and talented)
programs from elementary school, through middle school, high school
and in college (undergraduate study).
2) I loved these classes and they were often the only bright part
of my academic experience. I had challenges with being bored in
other classes and would consequently not attend class (as I got
older).
3) I love information and learning. Unfortunately,
some of the schools I attended (and I attended a lot of them due to
my family moving often as my father was in the military), did not
have curriculum that provided me the opportunity to learn new
information. I would then either mentally check-out (daydream,
etc.) or physically check-out (not show up).
4) My anecdotal experience and professional teaching experience has
led to the conclusion that children
on the different ends of the skill acquisition spectrum are not
provided adequate resources for a quality
education (due
to the need for limited staff resources to be directed towards the
average student skill set).
5) From the National Association for Gifted
Children, "Good
teaching for gifted learners is paced in response to the student's
individual needs. Often, highly able students learn more
quickly than others their age. […] Good teaching for gifted
learners happens at a higher "degree of difficulty" than for many
students their age." - See more at: http://www.nagc.org/resources-publications/gifted-education-practices/what-it-means-teach-gifted-learners-well#sthash.XlYLESnO.dpuf
6) "Instruction for gifted learners is
inappropriate when it asks them to do "more of the same stuff
faster." Reading
more books that are too easy and doing more math problems that have
ceased being a challenge are killers of motivation
and [...]
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