Differentiation
Do's and Don't's Differentiation
Edutopia is a great resource for educators. I use it frequently to read articles and blogs to learn how to best approach my gifted learners. It also sends emails with activities you can use with your students.
Below is a link to an article about the do's and don't's when teaching gifted students in the general ed. classroom. This will probably be a review for most of you but please take a minute to skim over it. Think about any questions you may have.
Grouping:
* Pre-Assessments
* Bonus Questions
* Exit Tickets
Enrichment/Extension:
* Standards you are already teaching
* Can be Cross-Curricular
* Choice Boards
The activities that gifted students should be doing in your classrooms will be ones that are extensions or enrichment of the standards that you are teaching that week to your class and they have already mastered. They can also involve cross-curricular activities. If you have assigned a novel for your class. Your advanced students may need a different novel at a higher reading/Lexile level that involves the same theme. Other activities could include a choice board activity based on a them from a novel.
Example: One of my classes is reading the book "Ben and Me" this is about Benjamin Franklin. We will be completing a choice board project for the Revolutionary War to extend this book.
Real-World Situations:
Gifted students are also those students that want to know why they are learning what they are learning. Make sure to give them purpose. They need to understand the purpose behind something in order for it to make sense to them. Take a concept or standard that you are working on and have those students do an activity that allows them to apply that standard/concept in a potential real- world situation.
Interest Projects
Study People
Critical Thinking Practice
Other Opportunities to learn more about differentiation and teaching gifted students
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