Gifted Teacher Toolbox: Academic Resources
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 do I even begin?!”. There […]
Mother’s Day Ideas for GATE Students
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 something that represented the stage […]
Keeping Gifted Kids Engaged: 10 Strategies for Review
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 I’m excited to share some […]
Keeping Gifted Kids Engaged: Teaching Critical Thinking
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 heavily on the reason many […]
Keeping Gifted Kids Engaged: Adding Creativity
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. Maybe its because there are […]
Gifted Back to School Planning: The 4 C’s
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 C’s of 21st century learning […]
Gifted Back to School Planning: Critical Thinking
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. What is critical thinking? […]
Convergent vs Divergent Thinking
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 thinking, there are a few […]
Differentiating Math for K-1
“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 not easy. Students come into […]
Higher Level Picture Books in all Grades for Critical Thinking and Gifted
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.