Practical Recommendations and Interventions
According to Bauer et al (2013), it is estimated that students who are gifted and highly talented encompass 5 to 15% of the school age population. These advances students can have increased capabilities in academics, creativity, music, dance, art, and/or leadership. The following are recommended:
- Compact the curriculum and provide enrichment activities
- Implement a multi-level and multi-dimensional curriculum
- Be flexible with the curriculum
- Make the curriculum student-centered
- Allow students to pursue independent projects based on their own individual interests
- Allow gifted children to assume ownership of their own learning through curriculum acceleration
- Try to maximize your students’ potential by expecting them to do their best
- Teach interactively
- Explore many points of view about contemporary topics and allow opportunity to analyze and evaluate material
- Consider team teaching,collaboration and consultation with other teachers
- Provide opportunities for gifted children to interact with other gifted children across grade levels and schools
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- Involve students in academic contests
- Allow gifted children to create and publish a class newspaper to distribute
- Set individual goals
- Consider parental input about the education of their gifted children
- Always remember that gifted children are similar in many ways to the average child in the classroom
- Address the counseling needs of each student to support emotional growth, as needed
- Remember that gifted children may not excel in all areas
- Do note assign extra work to gifted children who finish assignments early
- If a child attends resource rooms, communicate with the specialist for suggestions on how to enrich daily
classwork - Provide plenty of opportunities for gifted children and average children to engage in social activities
- Try to find the joy and uniqueness in each child
- Organize resources in order to free yourself to work with individual children and give the children greater
control of the learning situation - Establish and maintain a warm, accepting classroom
- Remember that implementing some of these strategies will benefit all of the children in the classroom
Source:
Bauer S., Benkstein P., Pittel A., & Koury Gabi. Gifted Students: Recommendations For Teachers. Practical Recommendations and Interventions: Gifted Students. Retrieved from: http://www.education.udel.edu/wp- content/uploads/2013/01/GiftedStudents.pdf
Bauer S., Benkstein P., Pittel A., & Koury Gabi. Gifted Students: Recommendations For Teachers. Practical Recommendations and Interventions: Gifted Students. Retrieved from: http://www.education.udel.edu/wp- content/uploads/2013/01/GiftedStudents.pdf