Gifted+Education

This page is for teachers of the gifted to find and share ideas, successes and challenges.

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Ideas for differetiating instruction for gifted students in high school (from Schuylkill County educators):

ENGLISH 9 - ROMEO & JULIET - Have students explore an aspect of Shakespeare's time with //choices//. Choose a topic such as Queen Elizabeth or the Bubonic Plague or the theater, music and fashion. Cokmpile the research and create one of the following: Webquest, PowerPoint to share with class or traditional research paper in MLA.

MATH - Give students a "challenge" problem (real-life scenario) that requires connecting and combining concepts and ideas that students may not usually associate with one another. //Kris Bet, MAHS// Geometery and algebra - Make cards with expressions, equations, etc. on one and the solution on another. Students will need to solve the problem and match the answer. Graphs and grids - Allow students to make up a survey that measures favorite holiday activities. Have them generate a list of options and distribute to classmates. Students will then crunch the data, create a spreadsheet and graph and present findings to the class.

SAT TUTORIALS - Have gifted students do the last five problems (the most difficult add challenging). The studnets would get bored doing the rest, run out of steam and never do the most important part.

SPANISH - When doing the food unit, assign projects according to the multiple intelligences. Ex. writing and performing a skit (restaurant scene), designing a menu, etc.

A gifted child is like:



A Computer.................... A Tributary .......................A Box of Chocolates .............Austism ...................................Music

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**The Non-negotiables For Differentiated Instruction**

 * 1)  **Supportive Environments** - meet the needs of all learners. Levels, styles and readiness.
 * 2)  **Ongoing (formative) Assessment**  - identify and assess knowledge, skills through student products.
 * 3)  **Quality Curriculum**  - based on standards, benchamarks, 21st Century Skills.
 * 4)  **Respectful Tasks**  - respct for the individual learning needs.
 * 5)  **Flexible Grouping** - grouping based on student interests, levels, and learning styles.


 * //DI Webpages

http://web20guru.wikispaces.com/Strategies

http://people.virginia.edu/~mws6u/diff/index.htm

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/questions/choose_lang.cfm//**//

FRANNIE McALEER'S WEBSITE

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CREATIVITY IDEAS:

1. Build with Legos 2. Write a new character into a story 3. Options for presenting knowledge 4. Provide activities that might include 3 or more unrelated objects (ruler, cookie, etc.) to be tied together. 5. Create a soundtrack that would enhance the theme of a story 6. Book report option - Take one character - What would you find in his/her garbage? Relate it back to the plot 7. Original musical composition to be used by school band. REAL WORLD CONNECTION 8. Direct a play 9. Multimedia project**

SCAMPER -**

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SCAMPER is an acronym for useful list of words that can be applied as stimuli to make you think differently about the problem area.

__Substitute__
What can you substitute? What can be used instead? Who else instead? What other ingredients? Other material? Other process? Other power? Other place? Other approach? Other sounds? Other forces? Instead of ... I can ...

__Combine__
What can you combine or bring together somehow? How about a blend, an alloy, an assortment, an ensemble? Combine units? Combine purposes? Combine appeals? Combine ideas? I can bring together ... and ... to ...

__Adapt__
What can you adapt for use as a solution? What else is like this? What other idea does this suggest? Does past offer a parallel? What could I copy? Who could I emulate? I can adapt ... in this way ... to ...

__Modify__
Can you change the item in some way? Change meaning, colour, motion, sound, smell, form, shape? Other changes? Also: Magnify: What can you add? More time? Greater frequency? Stronger? Higher? Longer? Thicker? Extra value? Plus ingredient? Duplicate? Multiply? Exaggerate? And: 'Minify': What can you remove? Smaller? Condensed? Miniature? Lower? Shorter? Lighter? Omit? Streamline? Split up? Understate? I can change ... in this way ... to ...

__Put to other uses__
How can you put the thing to different or other uses? New ways to use as is? Other uses if it is modified? I can re-use ... in this way ... by ...

__Eliminate__
What can you eliminate? Remove something? Eliminate waste? Reduce time? Reduce effort? Cut costs? I can eliminate ... by ...

__Rearrange//__
What can be rearranged in some way? Interchange components? Other pattern? Other layout? Other sequence? Transpose cause and effect? Change pace? Change schedule? I can rearrange ... like this ... such that ...