Practices Make Perfect
Young, Gifted & Black
Trick or Trait
"Myth"conceptions
100
Gifted students require these adjustments to their educational experiences in order to learn and realize their potential.
What are modifications?
100
This screening method evaluates all students in a grade or school, ensuring every child has a chance to demonstrate giftedness.
a. referral screening
b. universal screening
c. toxins screening
What is universal screening?
100
Find the word that links these 3 words together:
EASY
WISE
MAIN
What is STREET?
100
Some gifted students also have learning disabilities.
Not a myth
200
Universal screening has been shown to increase the identification of low-income and minority gifted students by this percentage.
a. 50%
b. 75%
c. 180%
What is 180%?
200
These tools look beyond test scores to measure characteristics like motivation, creativity, and problem-solving.
a. nominal scales
b. ratio scales
c. rating scales
What are rating scales?
200
This trait makes multiple-choice assessments difficult because these students see nuance and context.
a. tendency toward complexity
b. a need for precision
c. divergent interests
What is a need for precision?
200
Gifted students should serve as role models and tutors in regular classrooms.
MYTH
300
Do you hear what I hear (Say the words you see really fast)
Fur Awes Teeth Us Gnome An
What is Frosty the Snowman?
300
This term describes when high academic achievement or speaking standard English is viewed negatively by peers.
What is "acting white"?
300
Some highly gifted children may appear average in school due to the difference between ability and this.
What is performance?
300
All children are gifted according to the educational definition of gifted.
MYTH
400
Students from this socioeconomic background often underperform compared to gifted peers due to fewer early education and enrichment opportunities.
a. upper class
b. blue collar
c. poverty
What is poverty?
400
Find a rhyming two-word phrase for
PERSPIRING ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN
What is a Sweaty Yetty?
400
Because giftedness is not always obvious, adults may rely too heavily on this visible indicator to identify gifted students.
What are high grades?
400
What is 43?
500
Students who are both gifted and have disabilities such as ADHD, dyslexia, or autism are referred to by this term.
What is twice-exceptional?
500
This type of thinking blames the student or their family instead of addressing academic needs when achievement is low.
What is deficit thinking?
500
This gifted trait usually presents as perfectionism or a very defined sense of justice leading to challenges when understanding rules set by others or interacting with same-age peers who don’t hold the same standards.
What are high expectations?
500
What is "head for cover"