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Standards
Standards
This site details the National Standards in Gifted and Talented Education. Also, teachers should look at the “For educators” link on the left side of the page to find gifted education practices, teaching for high potential and other topics of interest to teachers in order to best meet the needs of gifted learners.
This site has research and links for many issues regarding meeting the needs of gifted children. The main topics are: identifying advanced learners, supporting advanced learners, lessons specifically for advanced learners, enrichment and other programs, assessing advanced others, and more. Each topic has resources and suggestions for other links that may be of interest to teachers.
This webpage has a plethora of links to resources for parents, educators and children. Hoagies has a page with links and resources titled “Educators, Counselors, Psychologists and Administrators of the Gifted”. This site regularly hosts “blog hops” on topics for gifted education.
MEGT is a professional organization in Minnesota for educators of the gifted and talented. Teachers will find valuable information on the link titled “Position Papers”. In addition, teachers can find more information and assistance on the link titled “Resources”.
Differentiation
Differentiation
This is an interactive website to assist teachers in writing objectives. The site offers differentiation in the areas of thinking skill, contents, resources, products and groups. The differentiator helps teachers apply Bloom’s Taxonomy in order to guide students to higher-level thinking.
This article provides many links to help teachers learn about differentiation and meet the needs of diverse learners.
Carol Ann Tomlinson is a leading expert on the topic of differentiation. Teachers who want to learn about differentiation should start with Tomlinson. This site offers readings and videos.
This site includes resources from the University of Virginia, including videos of Carol Ann Tomlinson discussing differentiation. The site also includes links to blogs on the topic of differentiation.
This site has helpful videos for teachers on a variety of topics. Teachers can find resources and ideas for working with gifted students. For meeting needs of gifted and talented students, search the topics of “gifted”, “high achievers” and “differentiation”.
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