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Gifted Students:
Motivational Ideas
The Future Belongs to the LearnersNOTThe Learned
By Alan Haskvitz, teacher
National Teachers Hall of Fame
USA Today All American Educator, Tech Magazine Leaders Award
Readers Digest Hero in Education, Leavey Economics Award.
NCSS Middle Level Teacher of the Year, National Exemplary Program
Learning Magazine Professional Best American Teacher Award
Cherry International Great Teacher Award; Three Golden Bells
George Washington Freedom Foundation Award, McAuliffe Award
State/National Awards in economics, technology, ecology, agriculture, economics, art, service learning, journalism, English, history, photography, creative writing, civics, engineering, coaching
Featured on NPR, in CNN, Time, Newsweek, and USA Today
Featured in several textbooks, and national television, and books
Never been observed by District, State or Federal official
Some of My articles are here
https://carfamily.wordpress.com/category/teaching//Gifted educationhttp://www.teachers.net/gazette/AUG08/haskvitz/[email protected]
Definition of Underachievement
Underachievement is a behavior and thus can change over time.
Underachievement is content and situation specific.
Gifted children who do not succeed in school are often successful in outside activities.
Underachievement is in the eyes of the beholder.
What, Me Worry?
Highly gifted kids will often adopt a pattern of avoidance of hard work when they have never learned to work hard.
Many students haven't had to work very hard to do well, but that changes as they get older.
They may have gotten away with avoiding things they don't do well.
Another thing to consider is that many gifted kids, particularly the verbally gifted, would rather argue a point instead of using facts.
Intrinsic Rewards
Extrinsic Rewards result in a Whats in it for me attitude.
Intrinsic Rewards result in the building of self-esteem
Rewards need to promote long term behavior change. They do not need to be related to achievement.
Ideas that work
Use Doubt.
Short term. What is the learning involved?
Cover material in more depth
Do less. Use Tom Sawyer Approach
Use a variety of methods
Appeal to their negative nature
Get them on your side.
Avoid Dead End Projects
Where is this assignment leading
Application of Learning
Process
Motivation can be related to methods
-Alter the curriculum, but dont change the objective
-Accept different proofs of knowledge
-You need to realize that good words can be bad
-Fear of success
-Always value talking to student and asking opinions
Want to Get Student's Attention in a Hurry?
Today we are going to learn how to do aRESUME'Hand students form with room for name, address, contact numbers.Next ask them to write education they have.Next add experience, achievements, etc.That is what you have accomplished to date.Remember that your are investing in yourself
A Common Trait
Gifted students, in most cases are good test takers, and have the ability to remember things more quickly. But they aren't gifted in the sense that they have a gift. What they have is a different way of learning, and even that may reflect only one part of the curriculum such as music, or math.
They can more easily retrieve data.
SoApply LearningSolve ProblemsDo SomethingPush Outside Comfort Zones
Dealing with ProblemsUse indirect approach
If you see a student having a problem, visit other students before and after your visit.
Use Lost Scout Approach
How did they get lost?
Achievement is Not Motivation
It's important to remember that while you may get a student to do homework it may not be motivating to the child.
They need to learn where the material is leading. They need to see the path.
Make it Meaningful
Teach them speed reading
Teach them how to write by showing them the structure writers use. End First
Give them the answer and they produce the question
Relate to their life
Competition>Turn it to your advantage
>Importance of team work
>Help others be better
>Avoid The BestIt Teaches Avoidance
Learn by Doing
Set Baselines
Prove that you know this
How would you teach this to others
Use variety of intelligences/methods
CalendarDont underestimate value of large calendar andTimeline(what they learned)
Learning Timeline
Today I learned
Motivating as they look backANDHelps them organize their thoughtsANDEnables them to see direction
Create own learning aids
1. Use memory cards2. Use Cornell note taking3. Invent secret notetaking system4. Write own textbookhttp://www.bookemon.com/read-book/198980And StoryBird.com
Getting Them Organized
Battle Plan for the Day
Three Transfers
Linking
Use Linking
Make connections across curriculum
Ongoing
Large sheet of paper
Daily upgrades
Reflections
Teachers should be an example
Publish, Research, be Active
It is motivating for students to be proud of their teacher
Dont
Don't put up student examples
Dont isolate students
Dont compare their work
Dont judge creativity
Quotes
Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of
the way they are handled.
Itzhak Perlman
Genius without education is like silver in the mine. Benjamin
Franklin
Each time we steal a student's struggle, we steal the opportunity
for them to build self-confidence. They must learn to do hard
things to feel good about themselves. Sylvia Rimm
You can never hold a person down without staying down with him.
Booker T. Washington
High Interest Sites
https://www.awesomestories.com/
The first recorded trial - in 824 - took place when moles did something wrong in the Valley of Aosta (near today's Italian-Swiss border). Found guilty, the offending moles were excommunicated from the Catholic Church.
E. P. Evans, in his 1906 book entitled The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals, tells us that judging animals extends back in time to ancient Greece. Even inanimate objects - such as a fallen pillar - could become a criminal defendant. The point of the cases was to investigate how terrible events had come about.
Awesome Stories is the best source of material for motivating gifted students based on content and diversity.
Just In
Awesome Stories is Offering 30 Free Account
This site that allows students to publish work, correlates well with Common Core, and offers exciting and motivating stories. It is well worth a click or two. A great site for flipping, sponge activities and to develop interests.https://www.awesomestories.com/Signup/Membership/25
Example of Awesome Stories
The Little Boy Who Can Change the Weather: El Nio - Preface
You are a drop of rainwater and were born in a nimbus cloud that also produced your brothers and sisters. People living on earth call all of you precipitation. We'll just call you Drippy.
Now it isn't easy being a raindrop. When you are small, about 1 millimeter (the size of a pencil point), you are spherical and have a shape like a flattened bun. You grow by running into other drops until you reach about 4.5 millimeter and start to fall turning you into a little parachute with a tube of water around your base. As you fall you break up into smaller drops as the wind pressure pushes against you until you are flattened. Some of your brothers and sisters are larger because they have collided with others, but you are just glad to be done with the wild journey that started when you were born from water vapor and a little nuclei such as a piece of salt that has evaporated from the sea water or a bit of dust.
El Nino continued
Since seventy-one percent of the Earth's surface is ocean the chances are, Drippy, you are going to fall into an ocean. Since the largest is the Pacific the odds are that that ocean is going to be your landing place. Depending on the weather, your temperature is going to be between 32F and 80F. If it is below that temperature then you would be a snow flake. To give you an idea of what that temperature means, your bath is probably between 98F and a very hot 108F.
You probably want to know what is going to happen to you once you land in the ocean. Well, Drippy, you are fresh water and very precious. Only three percent of all the water on Earth can claim to be fresh water. You are still fresh water when you land on a calm ocean. If the ocean does not have any wind or waves you join with your fellow raindrops and create a fresh water layer on the ocean. However, most of the time the ocean has waves and wind and so you slowly mix with the ocean water and become saline or salt water that makes up 97 percent of the Earths water.
Recommended Reading
Environmental, Familial, and Personal Factors That Affect the
Self-Actualization of Highly Gifted Adults: Case Studies
Doctoral Dissertation
Introduction and Literature Review, Deborah L. Ruf, Ph.D.
Number one way to reach gifted students:EMPOWER THEM
Characteristics of gifted children predispose them to existential distress. Because brighter people are able to envision the possibilities of how things might be, they tend to be idealists. However, they are simultaneously able to see that the world falls short of their ideals. Unfortunately, these visionaries also recognize that their ability to make changes in the world is very limited. Dabrowskis Theory and Existential Depression in Gifted Children
Haskvitz's Student AccomplishmentsSelected for Bright Idea Award
by Harvard
Represented the United States in International Technology
competition in Rome
Worked with Joy Hakim on her book, The Story of Us
Selected best from 20,000 entries and they testified at the United
Nations on the importance of environmental education.
None of these were in curriculum area taught
Students' work was selected the best from 12,000 entries earned
an all expense paid trip to Washington DC to meet the
President.
The National Wildlife Federation selected program as best from 9000
entries for students involvement in political action and the
environment.
Students integrated work in agriculture was chosen as one of the
top 12 in the nation and was shared on national television.
Students research was published in the National Middle School
Newsletter.
Students passed state environmental legislation.
Students Piloted the Close-Up Foundations National Community
Service Program.
Graffiti campaign reduced graffiti by 90 percent in the
community.
Students' work was the centerpiece for the County of Los Angeles summit called by the Los Angeles Registrar of Voters and lead to rewriting of county and state voting forms.
Students' class work has earned trips them to the United Nations, Washington DC, Tampa, CNN in Atlanta, Sea World, and Disneyland in national competitions.
Students won five congressional writing competitions and over 20
essay and speech contests.
Students were finalist City of the Future engineering competition
for industrial creativity.
Students work selected by Oregon Trail and California Oregon
Trail group for their sites.
Students' work on environmental friendly driving techniques
featured on DMV website.
Differences
Bright child
Knows the answers
Interested
Pays attention
Works hard
Answers questions
Enjoys same-age children
Gifted child
Asks the questions
Extremely curious
Gets involved physically and mentally
Plays around; still gets good test scores
Questions the answers
Prefers adults or older peers
Differences Part Two
Bright Child
Learns easily
Listens well
Self-satisfied
Learns with ease
6-8 repetitions for mastery
Understands ideas
Enjoys peers
Grasps the meaning
Completes assignments
Gifted Child
Good at guessing
Bored -- already knew the answers
Shows strong feelings and opinions
Highly critical of self (perfectionist)
Has wild, silly ideas
Discusses in detail; elaborates
1-2 repetitions for mastery
Differences Part 3
Bright Child
Completes assignments
Is receptive
Copies accurately
Enjoys school
Absorbs information
Technician
Good memorizer
Enjoys straight-forward,
Is alert
Gifted Child
Constructs abstractions
Initiates projects
Is intense
Creates a new design
Manipulates information
Inventor
Good guesser
Thrives on complexity
Is keenly observant
ReferencesHow Do I Know if My Child is
Giftedhttp://www.tagfam.org/whoisgifted.html
Differences in Gifted, High AchieversJanice Szabos, Challenge,
1989, Good Apple, Inc., Issue 34Poor Teacher Training: End of
Gifted
Teachinghttp://www.teachers.net/gazette/AUG08/haskvitz/Making a
Difference: Motivating GiftedStudents Who Are Not AchievingDel
Siegle D. Betsy McCoachMotivating Gifted
Studenhttp://www.davidsongifted.org/db/Articles_id_10648.aspxHelping
Gifted
Studenthttps://carfamily.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/how-to-help-the-gifted-student/
Preventing Cheating
Marylou Kelly Streznewski in her book Gifted Grown Ups: The
Mixed Blessings of Extraordinary Potential, gifted people may make
up as much as 20 percent of the prison population.
http://school.familyeducation.com/gifted-education/criminology/40932.html#ixzz1nzHxglDk
ReWeaving
Education for the Gifted
--Blend the strands together by integrating--Re-examine product by asking the Five Whys--Evaluate Process, not Product--Consider classroom center for evaluation--Avoid dead ends by ReWeaving--Work rapidly, but return to weave new material--Motivates students through self-assessment
I asked Mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly
wouldn't have PAID for me. Calvin (Calvin & Hobbes)
Satire Videoshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr5kWOdkHYA
Have a sense of humor
Thanks for staying
When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.
Don't Leave Me with Him
Class dismissedYour attendance is appreciated
Alan [email protected]