If you have read any of my previous posts~ you know I am a huge advocate of incorporating gifted best practices into mainstream education.Im going to share another model~ designed by gifted education researchers~ that could make a big difference in...
Ive spent the last four years of my education careerimmersed in gifted education as a practicing teacher of the gifted and a graduate student in gifted education. The more I study the subject~ the more I am convinced that every teacher should be...
Summer is an excellent time to learn new skills and sharpen old ones.
Courses in common core standards~ classroom management~ and differentiated instruction all have their value. However~ Id like to offer a slightly different suggestion for...
Lets face it many of us feel exhausted by this time of the school year.Others have mentally checked out.Your students, in similar fashion, are dreaming of sandy beaches, lemonade, sleeping in late, and playing video games until their fingers hurt.I...
I want to share an idea I had for my gifted students~ but I believe would enhance the summer education of any childand make parents appreciative as well.After receiving questions about what their gifted child could do over the summer~ I proposed the...
I want to share an idea I had for my gifted students~ but I believe would enhance the summer education of any childand make parents appreciative as well.After receiving questions about what their gifted child could do over the summer~ I proposed the...
Research has shown that as much as 40 to 50 percent of traditional classroom material can be eliminated for certain students when it comes to science and other core subjects.That means that these students could essentially start mid-school-year and...
What if I told you there was a way to engage students in real-world learning and build their confidence~ please parents (even the demanding ones)~ promote your school~ and keep school administrators happy in one fell swoop?You would probably think I...
Ideally~ learning should be a natural process.Unfortunately~ with testing pressures and varied instructional approaches~ the process of discovering and mastering new skills and information is often contrived and~ frankly~ learned in an unnatural...
During my last blog~ I shared a story about how problem-based learning was used to challenge one of my students.In this post~ I want to outline the steps that have personally helped me implement this method.First~ you have to find the right problem....