introduction to teaching gifted students
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Teaching Gifted Learners in the
Regular Classroom
Presentation at UMN New Teacher Conference
Dr. Liz Fogarty ([email protected])
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THINKWho are gifted kids?
PAIRHow do gifted kids learn
differently?
SHAREIn what ways should instruction
for gifted kids be different?
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From: It’s About Time by Alane J. Starko, Mansfield
Center, CT: Creative Learning Press, 1986.
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Put Gifted
Kids on
Your Radar
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Knows the answers
Asks the questions
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Is
InterestedIs Highly
Curious
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Has good ideas
Has wild, silly ideas
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Listens with interest
Shows strong feelings & opinions
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6-8 Repetitions for mastery
1-2 Repetitions
Understands ideas
Constructs abstractions
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Enjoys peers
Prefers adults
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Enjoys school
Enjoys
learning
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DON’TDO
(Tomlinson, 1997)
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DO PACE IN RESPONSE TO
STUDENTS’ INDIVIDUAL
NEEDS
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DON’T ASK THEM TO
DO WHAT THEY
ALREADY KNOW HOW
TO DO
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I’ve mapped out the concepts I've already
grasped to save you time.
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COMPACTING
Approximately 40-50% of traditional classroom
material could be eliminated
for targeted students.
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Students
1. Allison
2. Debbie
3. Jake
4. Jamie
5. Mary
6. Matthias
7. Paige
8. Sullivan
9. Thomas
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The CompactorJoseph Renzulli & Linda H. Smith
Student’s Name Allison
Areas of Strength Documenting Mastery Alternate Activities
Reading/
LA
92% on Theme 1
Pretest
-will attend group mini-lessons on only
those activities she did not master
-will spend her time finishing her novel
Math Chapter 2
Addition/
Subtraction
91% on Pretest -Worked on addend/inverse sentences
w/class
-Did all extra activities with the class, as
well as her project
Reading / LA 98% on Theme 2
Pretest
-Will be involved in Birchbark Book group,
continue her novel and attend mini-lessons
on skills she has not mastered
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DON’T ASK THEM TO
DO MORE OF THE SAME
STUFF FASTER
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DON’T CUT THEM LOOSE
FROM PEERS AND TEACHERS
FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME
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DON’T HAVE GIFTED
STUDENTS BE A TUTOR
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BECOME
AN
EXPERT
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DON’TGIVE THEM
ACTIVITIES
TO JUST
FILL THE
TIME
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DO GIVE THEM A HIGHER
DEGREE OF DIFFICULTY
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Minimum Requirements
Build a complex machine which is made up
of at least two simple machines and can
move a roll of pennies 3 feet.
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Exit Ticket
What was most
helpful to you about
today’s session?
What do you most
wish to learn about
next?
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Best Books for
Differentiation
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“In a completely rational society, the best
of us would aspire to be teachers and the
rest of us would have to settle for
something less, because passing civilization
along from one generation to the next
ought to be the highest honor
and the highest responsibility
anyone could have.”
-Lee Iacocca
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Questions
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