Gifted Teacher Toolbox: Academic Resources Welcome back to day two of Gifted Teacher Toolbox – today we will explore Academic Resources. If you missed day 1: Affective Resources, make sure to check out that blog post! As I sat down to write this blog posts, I thought “Where
Gifted Teacher Toolbox: Affective Resources Welcome to the newest series Gifted Teacher Toolbox! Last year, at the beginning of the year, I wrote a blog series titled Back to School Planning. This series was incredible in helping many teachers (both gifted and not) learn ideas and strategies for planning
Mother’s Day Ideas for GATE Students When I taught 3rd grade, I felt like I wanted to do something special for my students to give to their moms on Mother’s Day, but the kids were too old for arts and crafts. I wanted them to create something meaningful, but also
Kindergarten Ready vs Gifted in Kindergarten When I began as a Gifted Teacher, I was lucky enough to be a part time K-2 Gifted Teacher at 2 different schools. Though my passion had originally been with older students, my eyes opened to a few different important topics. One specifically that
Keeping Gifted Kids Engaged: 10 Strategies for Review Welcome Guest Blogger, Gifted365! Are you an educator struggling to keep your gifted learners engaged as the end of the school year approaches? You’re not alone. Gifted learners require unique approaches to maintain their motivation and enthusiasm for learning. That’s why
Keeping Gifted Kids Engaged: Teaching Critical Thinking Welcome to the third blog in the Keeping Gifted Students Engaged at the End of the Year blog series!! The topic of this blog is: Teaching Critical Thinking. If you have missed the last two blogs in the series, I spoke
Keeping Gifted Kids Engaged: Adding Creativity Welcome back to the Keeping Gifted Students Engaged at the End of the Year blog series!! Let’s review the problem: Review. At the end of the year, we review standards we have learned throughout the past 8ish months for our students.
Keeping Gifted Kids Engaged: Projects and Real World Application Welcome to my newest blog series on Keeping Gifted Students Engaged at the End of the Year!! How often do we find that some of our brightest students begin to become our biggest behavior problems at the end of
The Teacher Scramble Quick Question… How many times have you had a student finish something early because it was too easy for them? How many of those times have you answered: “Read a book” “Help a friend” “Log onto the computer for XYZ activity…” “Work on an
GT Back to School Planning: 3 Reading Strategies We have reached the final day in our back to school planning series! Thank you so much to everyone who has followed along, sent messages, commented, and supported. It has been so fun sharing my knowledge of gifted education in this
GT Back to School Planning: Low Prep, High Thinking Strategies Today we have an extra special blog post in our Back to School Planning series! When I began teaching K-2 gifted education 2 years ago, I had the most amazing 3-5 GT teacher that I got to work with
GT Back to School Planning: The 4 C’s The past two blog posts in this series have explored depth of knowledge and critical thinking. 2 ways to go about planning the thinking levels of objectives and activities. Today we are going to move backwards and talk about the 4
GT Back to School Planning: Critical Thinking In the first blog post of this series, we explored depth of knowledge and ensuring gifted students are thinking at higher levels. In this blog post, we will build upon that knowledge by looking at a specific type of thinking: critical thinking.
GT Back to School Planning: Depth of Knowledge Welcome to the first in the series of a week long guide for back to school planning with gifted learners in mind! For the first topic, I have chosen to discuss depth of knowledge; a vital part in ensuring rigor for
Top 4 Comments Gifted Teens & Adults Say About Their Childhood Almost 2 years ago I began my journey creating Gifted With Goldens – both on social media and through my blog. My goal: advocate for gifted students and support parents/teachers. The most wonderful surprise that came out of
Gifted students are still gifted over the summer… I truly believe that summer time is for exploring, being a child, playing, and resting…but gifted children are still gifted. Gifted children love to: Explore passions Learn new information Develop curiosities Build background knowledge And that doesn’t change over the
What is the difference between each thinking skill? Four of the most important types of critical thinking to explicitly teach within your classroom are: convergent thinking, divergent thinking, visual spatial thinking and judgement thinking. This article will explore the first two. First, before we dive into the types of critical
Have you wondered how to enrich and differentiate within the classroom? Within the classroom, there are many different ways of providing gifted enrichment, but which type is best? Before we go over each type of enrichment, there is one very important thing to remember: Regardless of which form you use,
“This math is too easy!” – how many times have you heard this from one of your students? Or even worse, how many times have you KNOWN that the math is too easy for a few of your students, but they are compliantly sitting there participating? Differentiating K-1 math is
My gifted students can read chapter books, so do they need phonics instruction? As my district has implemented a new phonics curriculum this year, this question has been at the forefront of many discussions. Many people are divided on this topic, so here are my unofficial thoughts. Many academically
All teachers can use picture books – AND SHOULD – but not all teachers are used to questioning at a higher level. The same book can be read to all students, but the questioning should be differentiated. There is a difference between reading and asking “right there questions” and asking deeper level questions.
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