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 […]
Gifted Teacher Toolbox: Affective Resources
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 for their gifted students. If […]
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 […]
The Teacher Scramble
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 early finisher activity.” Ive […]
Gifted Back to School Planning: 3 Reading Strategies
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 outlet – I hope it […]
Gifted Back To School Planning: Low Prep, High Thinking Strategies
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 and learn from! Today, she […]
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? […]
Gifted Back to School Planning: 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. […]