GREAT THINKING THURSDAY!
For Klein ISD Educators of Gifted Learners
KLEINTALKS: THIS SATURDAY APRIL 14, 2018!
You are INVITED! Plan on attending to encourage, enjoy, and enhance your understanding of our learner's passions and interests!!
Most Difficult First
PreAssessment: Five Most Difficult First
Shared by Carie Barber, Advanced Academics Program Coordinator
Here is an easy way to pre-assess skills so that advanced students can move on to extension activities without unnecessary practice. Find the five most difficult problems in your practice activity and place a star next to them or note the question numbers on the board.
- Students can opt to do those 5 questions first and have them checked by you.
- The first student to correctly complete those five (or 4 out of 5) can become the checker for other students.
- If they do not want to be the checker, they can move on to their extension activities.
- The next one to correctly complete the 5 most difficult becomes the checker.
You, the teacher, are freed up to work with a small group. You only have to check 5 questions and have extension activities ready!
For more information and FAQ, check out Susan Winebrenner’s Teaching Gifted Kids in Today’s Classroom.
By Ian Byrd
Part 1 of Byrdseed's Guide to Curiosity can be summed up like this:
When we become curious, we are anticipating learning information.
Our brain releases dopamine, a pleasurable chemical related to the anticipation of a reward (in this case information).
Simply being in this curious state activates the hippocampus, enhancing memory.
We remember things better when we are in this state, even things we weren’t actually curious about.
Closing Question: How many times a day are your students in a curious state, eagerly anticipating information?
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Alcumus: Art of Problem Solving Online System: FREE!
Shared by Gordon See, Advanced Academic Program Coordinator
Alcumus offers students a customized learning experience, adjusting to student performance to deliver appropriate problems and lessons. Alcumus is specifically designed to provide high-performing students with a challenging curriculum appropriate to their abilities.
Alcumus is FREE!
Gifted Professional Development-Summer 2018!
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