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Teachers,
Thank you so much for caring about your high-achieving kids enough to spend your precious time seeking out this resource to better teach them. And your time is well-spent. They desperately need you. In fact, did you know the average gifted 4th grader spends 87 minutes* of the school day idle?
87.
Each.
School.
Day.
Through collaboration, we can reduce this idle time in a manner that is streamlined, simplified, and effective to move advanced students in your class forward without overloading your already overflowing plate. You can't do it all alone, so stop trying!
My promise to you- this will be your one-stop-shop for everything you need to differentiate for your high-ability learners in your room this year. I'll keep it refreshed with new ideas ready to go and at your fingertips.
In this together.
Jaime
Support for Teachers
Support for Teachers
Part of the AIG teacher's role at Salem is supporting YOU! This can be done in 3 primary ways:
emailing resources
Sharing digital or print resources
Providing professional learning about the needs of gifted students
Support around integrating specific strategies for teaching gifted learners: Depth and Complexity, Inquiry-Based Model, Flexible Grouping, PBL
Participating in professional learning communities
Demonstrating effective strategies for classroom teachers
Presenting information at parent meetings
Coplanning a lesson for a team or a classroom with tiered instruction
Creating shared plan books (virtual coplanning)
Applying methods of coteaching in the classroom
Working directly with other specialists to support gifted students (ESL, CCR, Speech, Counselors, etc)
Coaching you through reflective practice as you hone your skills as a gifted guru!
Working in collaboritive team meetings to plan for Level 4 opportunities
Consulting with a team to consider specialized interventions
Collaborating in Individualized Education Program (IEP) meetings for 2e students
Identifying students for gifted services
Linking your team with community organizations, and outside programs to support the gifted
On-Demand Professional Development
On-Demand Professional Development
SHOULD all kids do it? COULD all kids do it? WOULD all kids want to? If the answer to any of these questions is “yes” then it isn’t differentiated..
– Harry Passow’s test for a differentiated curriculum
PD on Exceptionality
PD on Exceptionality
We are altogether too easily deceived by the time-worn argument that the gifted student, 'the genius' perhaps, will 'get along somehow without much teaching. The fact is, the gifted... and the brilliant... are the ones who need the closest attention of the skillful mechanic.
– W. Franklin Jones, Ph. D., in An Experimental-Critical Study of the Problem of Grading and Promotion (1912)
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