Re: Gifted Questions

Megan

Posted on 6/30/09

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Hey! I think we are in the same program at ASU. I am trying to
get answers for these questions, too. Hope we get some
responses. Have you found any other good chats or communities
for the gifted? This is SOOOO much work! Megan

On 6/28/09, Laura wrote:
> 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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