Note: This is the third and final installment of a three-part series on Type 3 projects for gifted/advanced students.
Now, that you have introduced students to Type 3 projects and helped them plan out their projects, it’s time to manage their work...
Note: This is the second installment of a three-part series.
In my last blog, I introduced Type 3 projects—long-term investigations that involve solving real-world problems with real-world products and services. After introducing Type 3s to...
Note: This is the first of a three-part series.
One of the best tools I have come across to challenge gifted and advanced learners is the Type 3 enrichment project. Type 3s are real-world, problem-based, long-term investigations. They...
During my decade of teaching, most of my time was spent working with gifted children, trying to find ways to enrich and challenge them academically and intellectually. I found that project-based learning, in its many forms, was a surefire way to...
In the film, A Bronx Tale, the character Sonny tells his young protégé that good women, are like great fighters, they only come along every 10 years. In my experience, great co-teaching is a similarly rare phenomenon.
I had one, outstanding co-...
While as a teacher right now you may be enjoying the beach, traveling, spending time with family, perhaps teaching a bit, or attending training in a more relaxed setting, the last thing on your mind right now is how to deal with the stress of the...
Have you ever overlooked a child for gifted education services?
Be honest—then again, maybe they slipped through the cracks because, as many teachers do, you operated from some partially or completely inaccurate preconceived notions when...
Recently, I was cleaning the garage, going through some old classroom supplies, when I came across a pile of money.
Well, not really—it was “play” money I had created years ago, when I taught a self-contained fifth-grade, gifted classroom. The...
I’d like to take a moment to write about an often-ignored topic in teaching. Likely, it’s not covered in professional development or faculty meetings or college coursework, but I believe it is, nonetheless, a vital, living, breathing component of...
It’s no secret that social studies regularly takes a back seat to other academic subjects. If teachers are honest, they will admit that they struggle to find time to teach social studies, and if they do, it’s crammed into the last minutes of the day...