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On this site you will find information and strategies to utilize in the classroom setting.
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Independent Learning Project
Allow students to learn about a topic of their choice more deeply. As the teacher, approve the topic. Have the student complete tasks without teacher intervention for longer periods of time, use different resources to gather information, take notes in any way they choose for recall. This helps students to become more self-aware as a learner.
Encourage Goal Setting
Encourage gifted and advanced readers to set their own goals. Display the goals the student comes up with in their own personal calendar so the student knows what each day will hold and what they are to accomplish that day. By having an end target, it will eliminate gifted and advanced students from asking the question, “what’s next?”
Tiered Assignments
Brain Builders
Have stacks of cards with questions and answers on the back (for self-assessment). Students may practice with these cards when they finish a task early. When a student feels they have mastered a stack of cards, they can have another student give them the Brain Builders Test. If a student masters all cards, they earn a Brain Bead. Every 5 beads a student earns a reward, such as, lunch with the teacher, sit by a friend pass, extra computer pass, etc.
Extending the Story
Have students extend a story they have read. For example, students may add another character or problem to the story of their choice. This activity gives students the ownership of adding their own touch to a story they have read.
Bloom’s Taxonomy Questions
As students read their books, have them answer different types of Bloom’s taxonomy questions. Students may answer one question from each category as they read their books.
Hands On/ Real World Activities
Give students the option to create a hands-on activity, such as creating a structure out of all recycled materials. Or give the students an opportunity to experience a real world activity, such as writing a letter to their favorite author.
Work Together
It is critical that students who are gifted or advanced are allowed to work together and share with their intellectual peers. Student social and emotional difficulties diminish when they are able to connect with others who are gifted or advanced as well. Assign tasks for these students to take on together.
Create a Choice Board
Create a board with as many boxes as you as the teacher want giving students options of projects or other activities to choose from for when they are either done with current work or have tested out of a subject area.
Goal Sheet
Internet Exploration
Multiple Intelligences
Incorporate different activities for students to complete that touch on different multiple intelligences, this gives the student the option to choose an activity that interests them most and to complete it in an area they are strong in such as; musical, kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, etc.
Have students use the Internet to further their knowledge, help them to be able to recognize a reliable website for information from a website that may not be so reliable. Have students use their research they find online in a project of their choice.
