Category: Education
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Identifying What Works: Can We Teach Cross Cultural Talent Recognition?
In their paper featured in the latest issue of Gifted and Talented International, Worley and Hines consider those teachers who have undercovered talent in underrecognized subgroups. They explain that, “… paucity of research exists regarding culturally competent teachers who have taken a critical stance against their biases” (pg. 1). They…
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Looking Ahead: Gifted Girls and Career Development
In the latest Gifted Child Quarterly, an open-access article looks at the career aspirations of 18 girls at highly selective secondary schools with the hopes of understanding what impacts these students and how we can address the gap between males and females in career “eminence” worldwide.
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Academically Advanced? Gifted? Both?
“He’s a hard worker, but I don’t think he’s gifted.” – Stella, 4th grade teacher “I mean, she gets all As, but she isn’t gifted? What’s wrong with this picture?” – Parent, 5th grade student As a gifted teacher, I frequently have to explain the criteria for gifted programs, both…
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Configuring a District’s G&T Program
Show me one gifted program, and you’ll have shown me… one gifted program. Each program is unique to the location’s history, requirements, quirks and personalities, among other factors. And once a program is in place, those practices can be hard to dislodge, even when a better approach is found. One…
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Be Specific: Planning for G/T Outcomes
In the latest Texas Association for Gifted & Talented (TAGT) podcast featuring Celeste Sodergren, Director of Advanced Academics in the Waco, Texas, Independent School Distirct (WISD), she explores the need to map specific projects to skill development, with each skill rolling up to a larger skill set.
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What is enrichment?
Although enrichment has taken up increasing space in student schedules, the goals of such programs are unclear.
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Motivation Matters for Gifted Growth
How many times have we second-guessed how to motivate and challenge the gifted child? Too much praise is problematic (Glass & Tabatsky, 2014), but we also want to recognize student effort and achievement. For gifted students, the student’s status and self-identification as a “gifted child” and how that impacts their…
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Gifted DEI Efforts: What Does the Admin Think?
“Equity” muttered with an eye roll is an unfortunate side effect of Diversity and Equity Inclusiveness (DEI) efforts over the past few years. I have heard frustration expressed by those across the political spectrum with DEI’s performative aspect, its ineffectiveness, and the polarizing nature of large-group equity conversations. During doctoral…
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Can Differentiation Improve Learning for All? Part One: A Short Introduction
While a homogeneous classroom of all gifted learners is antithetical to the pursuit of recognizing gifted potential across ability levels, effective differentiation requires an increase in human and other targeted resources to serve the variety of needs in our general education classrooms. Research indicates that differentiation is necessary to meet…
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iReady as an Indicator of Giftedness?
Districts have long searched for an online tool to support all assessments. Serving as a diagnostic Swiss knife, the online program should measure mastery of skills, remediate as necessary, challenge where appropriate, and provide fine-tuned data to allow a grade-level team to address learning gaps. For many districts, these tools…
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