Keeping Gifted Kids Engaged: Adding Creativity

Creative Kids

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

Collaboration, Communication, Workibgn

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: Depth of Knowledge

Depth of Knowledge

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 each of our gifted students. […]

Types of Gifted Enrichment Within the Classroom

Gifted Project Based Learning

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, there MUST BE INSTRUCTION. Just because […]

Differentiating Math for K-1

Kindergarten Math Differentiation

“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 […]