Traits/Characteristics
Classroom activities
Meeting the need
Tips for teachers
100
Students classify as this if they have the talents or capabilities to perform at higher levels in comparison to those in the same age, environment, and experience.
What is Giftedness?
100
The act of temporarily grouping students by ability to allow gifted students the motivation of each other and avoiding non-gifted students feeling incapable compared to their peers.
What is cluster grouping?
100
Giving gifted students the option to explore a specific area of interest independently in this way can allow them to develop creativity when work is finished quickly.
What is Independent Projects?
100
Teachers should ____ to be able to identify traits and characteristics of gifted learners early on in their career.
What is familiarize with characteristics?
200
While Gifted students demonstrate many traits like curiosity, emotional intelligence, analysis, and many others, they can also be perceived by their peers as this character from The Polar Express.
Who is a "know-it-all?"
200
An option that students may benefit from in the case they are much further above the abilities of their age group.
What is skipping grade levels?
200
When assignments and/or testing for the same material are developed and assigned according to level
What is leveling assignments?
200
This type of assessment does not require an extensive amount of work and allows for the teacher to check in with students on a personal level and meet every student's needs.
What is an informal assessment?
300
While gifted students may have a specific area of interests that they are motivated to develop their understanding of, it is true that they may _____ when it comes to other topics.
What is resisting activities or topics that do not align with interests?
300
Utilizing this in the classroom can give teachers an extensive amount of online resources and the ability to formulate assignments/activities to each student's capabilities.
What is technology?
300
The idea that everyone is intelligent in different ways, and application of this can ensure that students are challenged in one or more specific areas that may benefit them
What are multiple intelligences?
300
This option allows for students to attend courses of the level that they are at.
What is acceleration?
400
When gifted students are not allowed material to continue to go above and beyond to develop, they may ____
What is become bored and show disruptive behavior?
400
Students should be able to utilize these three upper levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.
What is analysis, synthesis, and evaluation?
400
When a gifted student is given an activity that goes above and beyond what is learned in the classroom instead of more of the same.
What is vertical enrichment?
400
Instead of turning Gifted students into tutors, finding them someone who does this can be beneficial in helping students reach their full potential.
What is a mentor?
500
The 12 traits of gifted learners.
What is: motivation, interests, communication skills, problem solving, memory, curiosity, insight, reasoning, creativity/imagination, humor, sensitivity, intensity/excitability?
500
Instead of simply giving gifted students information, doing this can be extremely beneficial.
What is guiding them to discover on their own?
500
Involving students in these can introduce friendly competition and allow development of skills and ideas of gifted learners.
What is Academic Competition?
500
These two theorists developed ideas that describe and elaborate in developmental stages.
Who are Piaget and Bloom?