GATE RESOURCES
Gifted and Talented Education
eLearning Resources
Depth & Complexity: Find the tools that will take students of all ages deeper and broader into any area of study. Icons, Thinking Like A Disciplinarian, Universal Concepts and Big Ideas can be used with all students to go beyond surface level understanding of a concept and enhance their ability to think critically and creatively.
Novelty: All students, including the gifted have the ability to be creative. Here you will find ideas for compacting curriculum and extension menus as templates for independent study.
Acceleration: Holding back gifted students is likely to be stressful for them, or harmful in other ways. In this section you will find specific techniques such as using advanced reading strategies for subject acceleration.
Inquiry: All students are curious by nature. Gifted students make more progress when they are in charge of their own learning. Inquiry encourages gifted students to learn at their own rate. Find templates of the Group Investigation Model as well as the 5E Model here.
Social and Emotional: Address all students' academic and emotional needs with these simple strategies, activities, and ideas you can start right now to support the social and emotional needs of your gifted students.
On Line Resources: Here you find links to many gifted education resources available on the internet. Great for teachers who are providing tool for parents of gifted children.
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CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION
ELA - Plan to take students beyond the standard by using these examples that are specific to your adopted curriculum.
Math - Plan to take students beyond the standard by using the math icons, compacting curriculum and providing extensions.
Thinking Like a Historian - Plan to take students beyond the standard by adding into your lessons opportunities for students to use the authentic language, tools and actions of specific disciplinarians in the field of history.
Thinking Like a Scientist - Plan to take students beyond the standard by adding into your lessons opportunities for students to use the authentic language, tools and actions of specific disciplinarians in the field of science.
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