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This software is a coding program that allows students to test different codes in a variety of ways. It is an excellent tool that teachers can use for their students, especially their gifted students. The website provides lesson plans and ideas that teachers can use in their classrooms.
Mensa for Kids: Lesson Plans
This website was designed for teachers and parents of gifted students. The resources provided are free to access and use. Teachers have access to lesson plans that they can use for their gifted students. This is an excellent resource that provides engaging and challenging lesson plan ideas for teachers to use in their own classrooms. The lesson plans are designed to enrich academic learning with the extension for gifted students built into the lesson.
Acceleration is a program model that is popular among gifted programs in North Carolina. There are numerous ways that students can be accelerated. Here is a project I completed in my GIFT 4100 course with Dr. Novak at East Carolina University. It focuses on comparing what we know about acceleration to what we do using an interview I completed with someone who was accelerated. It also touches on acceleration for twice-exceptional learners. It contains the project itself and the interview.
The article "Strategic Actions to Realize Equity and Excellence in Gifted Education for Multilingual Learners" by the NCDPI discusses strategic actions that policymakers and educators can take to help multilingual learners succeed in gifted education. It describes the strategic action, what to do, how to do it, and why it should be done.
This article "Critical Actions to Realize Equity and Excellence in Gifted Education Changing Mindsets, Policies, and Practices" by the NCDPI discusses actions that can help increase access and opportunities to increase achievement and growth for all. It describes the strategic action, how to do it and why it should be done.
Interested in serving gifted learners in your school? I've got good news for you... you can!
Interested in serving gifted learners in your school? I've got good news for you... you can! In North Carolina, educators are eligible to add AIG as an area to their license if they are fully licensed in another area. Here is a link to NCDPI's AIG Add-on Licensure web page. It has information on universities to attend to receive this add-on and information on the Gifted Education Praxis that one can take to receive this add-on. If you are an educator considering working with gifted learners, I suggest checking this out!
As gifted educators, we must possess knowledge of curriculum design models, especially ones that are implemented into our specific district's plan for gifted and talented learners. Here is a project I completed in GIFT 4200 with Dr. Novak at East Carolina University. In the video, I am acting as an AIG specialist who is advocating for the Parallel Curriculum Model to be implemented in Pitt County Schools.
The GRASPS tool is an assessment strategy that focuses on performance-based assessment rather than the traditional pencil-paper, multiple-choice test. Here is a project I completed in GIFT 4200 with Dr. Novak at East Carolina University. This project shows an example of how the GRASPS tool is implemented into a lesson to transform the assessment.
When you hear mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors, you probably think of a house, not education. However, these three things are not parts of a house but rather ideas within education that focus on multicultural literacy. It is important that students see themselves and others in the books they read and also have the opportunity to step into the worlds of others. This article by Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop explains this more in-depth. There is also a video of Bishop explaining these ideas presented in her article.
This TedTalk by Grace Lin also discusses windows and mirrors in children's literature and how crucial it is for these aspects to appear in children's books.
Differentiation is a key aspect of education, especially gifted education. Teachers must differentiate for their gifted and talented students to meet their needs. The following articles provide different strategies for differentiating for and challenging gifted and talented learners.
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