3. Gifted students have special needs just as other students with unique needs. Imagine yourself the teacher of a gifted class. Select a lesson you are familiar with teaching and reflect on how it would need to be changed to address the needs of gifted students. What technologies would you employ to support this change?
Most teachers believe that gifted students work fast therefore they tend to be given more work. Making them complete the regular “lesson” before they get to do activities more on their level is a terrible idea and a form of punishment. There are groups of gifted students who are intrinsically motivated and will complete the lesson just because their teacher told them to. The group of extrinsically motivated children will catch on fast when they realize being gifted only gets them extra work. They will begin to work on projects more slowly or purposefully make mistakes to get out of doing the extra work. Giving student the option to volunteer to test out of activities is a good way to poll students. If you start with the most difficult items first and they get ⅘ correct with little guidance then they are ready to move on. Simply making the work more difficult is not the solution, but gauging student interest and including activities that appeal to them is important also.
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6/27/2020 11:35:55 am
Hi Ashleigh,
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Melanie Bryan
6/28/2020 03:11:36 pm
Hi Ashleigh,
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Mara Chitic-Holmes
6/28/2020 07:23:12 pm
Educators are encouraged to support and challenge gifted learners in innovative ways. However, the emotional aspect of the gifted student is almost never brought up to attention. Being gifted can make a student feel different from the rest of the class. Often there is a constant pressure to perform, to be perfect and this leads to anxiety and fear of failure. Sometimes gifted students are victims of bullying.
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AuthorAshleigh is a student in the Masters of Human Capital Development and Instructional Design program at the University of Southern Mississippi and an Instructional Designer at The University of Alabama. Blogroll
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