Laura

Posted on 6/28/09

Hello!! I am working on getting my gifted endorsement this
summer and have to have some questions answered by fellow
teachers. You do not have to be a gifted teacher to answer
these questions. Anyone willing to answer these will be
greatly appreciated. I would love to have you answer all of
them, but if you just want to answer one or two of them
then that is cool too! If you do decide to answer just let
me know what grade you teach and the state. Thanks in
advance!

1. How do you recognize and identify the outstanding
talents and potentials in students?

2. How do you recognize and identify children and youth
having high potential in multiple areas?

3. How do you define gifted and talented?

4. What characteristics do you associate with gifted and
talented children and youth?

5. How do you compare historical and contemporary
identification of gifted and talented from the perspectives
of both theory and research?

6. What do you think are the best ways to develop
outstanding talents and potentials in students?

7. How do you select challenging instructional strategies
and materials for your students?

8. How do you choose to implement appropriately challenging
instructional strategies, materials, and technologies to
meet the unique learning needs of your gifted students?

9. How do you identify teaching models best noted for
meeting the unique educational needs of bright learners?
What strategies do you incorporate for differentiating
content, process, product, and learning environment?

10. How do you use major programs and prototypes developed
to provide differentiated instruction for gifted students?

11. How do you synthesize the major learning realms
(thinking skills, communication skills, and research
skills) to optimize development of gifted students across
the various curriculum realms?

12. How do you plan, implement, and evaluate the teaching
of gifted students?

13. What multiple strategies do you use for assessing
gifted student learning and program effectiveness?

14. How do you provide qualitatively differentiated
curriculum for the gifted/talented/creative learner?

15. How do you synchronize the curriculum of gifted
education with the general education curriculum?

16. Respond to this quote from Felix E. Schelling,
"Pedagogically Speaking", 1929. Do you believe that we have
made great strides in the education of the gifted? Why or
Why not?: "True education makes for inequality; the
inequality of individuality, the inequality of success; the
glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality,
not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization
is the measure of the progress of the world."

17. Note the impact you feel that the following concepts
have on giftedness: Perfectionist, underachievement,
stress, gender related issues, motivation, visual/spatial
learners, gifted with ADD/ADHD, profoundly gifted, gifted
students with learning disabilities, gifted students with
Asperser's syndrome, gifted students who are culturally and
ethnically diverse, linguistically different, and
economically challenged, High Intellectual-Low Creativity,
Low-Intellectual-High Creativity

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