For many years educators have only taken the brain into account when working with gifted children without realizing that there are many other pieces to giftedness that it are essential to understand. Gifted children also have very unique social and emotional characteristics and needs which need to be understood and addressed if they are going [...]
Did you know that according to research about half of the gifted students in this country go unidentified and unserved? That is a lot of talent we are missing out on as a culture. Gifted children represent a broad and diverse group of abilities which is not limited to the arbitrary “upper 3%” definition that [...]
Though AP classes are not GT specific, they serve many GT students and teachers due to the flexibility allowed by the College Board. We have a great deal of freedom to teach in any way we like as long as all the bases are being covere, including writing. Writing is one of the most essential [...]
Many times we’ll see PreAP English I and II and AP Language as individual, stand-alone classes. But you can create a unique and cohesive program by aligning the English 1 and 2 GT classes with the AP Language class. We’ll discuss how to do that in a sec, but first let's consider why we would [...]
Math Strategies to Engage Those Easily Distracted G/T Students (A review of Differentiating Math Instruction from A to Z by Carol Raymond of EA Young Academy) We all know the difficulty of trying to engage our G/T students. When not challenged, they bore easily, get restless and become a distraction to others. Most importantly, they [...]