Strategies and Methods For Teaching The Talented and Gifted Children

Strategies and Methods For
Teaching the Talented and Gifted

Children
PREPARED BY:
Zahirni Binti Ramli
Yasnizah Binti Yahya
Syamsina Haryanti Binti
Hawalit
All the time I just sat there….waiting,
Waiting for something new to learn,
My teachers should have ridden of
Jesse James,
For all the learning time they have
stolen from me!
No Child Left Behind Act (2001)
Improvement of Education:
• Subpart 6 — Gifted and Talented St

udents
VS
• Akta Pendidikan 1996

What Gifted Students Need:
• Compacting:
• Condensing a semester or a year’s
worth of learning into a shorter time
period.
• Differentiation:
• Providing gifted students with
different tasks and activities than
their age peers – tasks that lead to
real learning for them
1.Content 2. Process
5 Elements
5. Assessment 3. Product
4. Environment
Content……
• All kids need to learn all the content they
are expected to know!
• Content is differentiated through the use
of more advanced, complex texts and
resource materials, compacting, learning
contracts, interdisciplinary learning,
accelerated pacing, etc…..
• Focusing more understanding than just
the information
Process
• Method students use to make sense
of concepts, generalizations, and/or
the required standards
• Encompasses learning styles
considerations, creative and
productive thinking, conceptualizing,
focus on open-ended and problem
solving tasks and to share what they
have learned
Product…..
• The ways in which children choose
to illustrate and demonstrate their
understanding of the content and
process
• Often more willing to produce actual
product – an exhibition,
independent study or performance
Environment….
• Actual physical where learning take
place
• Spend more time in an independent
study than their classmates, often
work outside the classroom as part
of their differentiated work
Assessment….
• Should experience consistent
opportunities to demonstrate
previous mastery before certain unit
being taught
• Should be encourage to develop
their own rubrics and other methods
to assess their study projects
Recommendations for all teachers.
Adapted from the Martinson-Weiner Scale of Teacher Behaviors.
1. Conduct group discussions.

2. Select questions that stimulate higher-level thinking.
3. Use varied teaching strategies effectively.
4. Utilize critical thinking skills in appropriate contexts.
5. Encourage independent thinking and open inquiry.
6. Understand and encourage student ideas and student-
directed work.
7. Demonstrate understanding of the educational
implications of giftedness.
8. Utilize creative thinking techniques.
9. Utilize problem-solving techniques.
10. Synthesize student assessment data and curriculum
content effectively.
From Comprehensive Curriculum for Gifted Learners by Joyce Van Tassel-Baska, Simon &
Schuster, Inc., MA: 1994, pg. 65.
Strategies for Teaching
Gifted and Talented Students
• Create • If possible, involve
alternative activities students in academic
that go beyond the competitions in your
regular curriculum. area.
• Work with students • Create tiered assignme
to design an nts
independent project , which have different
that they would be expectations for
interested in different levels of
completing for credit. learners.
Technology and Gifted and
Talented Students
• Computers allow
students to move at their
own pace.
• Computers can be used

to complete alternative
activities and
independent projects.
• Many computer
programs can be used to
help students learn and
master new material not
covered in the regular
classroom.
• There are some online
educational programs for
gifted and talented
students, such as EPGY
at Stanford University.
Common Myths
• Gifted students do not need help. If they

are really gifted, they can manage on
their own.
• The social and emotional development
of the gifted student is at the same level
as his/her intellectual development.
• The primary value of a gifted student
lies in his/her brain power.
• Gifted students
need to serve as
examples to others,
and they should
always assume
extra responsibility.
• Gifted students are
naturally creative
and do not need
encouragement.
References
• Driscoll, A., & Freiberg, H.J. (2005). Universal teaching
strategies 4th ed.
Boston : Pearson Education Inc.

• Fry, H., & Ketteridge, S., & Marshall, S. (1999). A handbook for
teaching and
Learning in higher education. London : Kogan Page Ltd
• Gibbs, G., & Habeshaw, T. (1989). Preparing to teach. Bristol :

Technical and
Educational Services ltd

• Gibbs, G., & Habeshaw, S., & Habeshaw, T. (1984). Interesting
things to do in your
lectures. Bristol : Technical and Educational Services ltd

• Tolan, S.S., & Meckstroth, E.A., & Webb, J.T. (1991). Guiding
the gifted child : a practical source for parents and
teachers. Australia : Hawker Brownlow Education

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Teaching the Talented and Gifted

• Subpart 6 — Gifted and Talented St

• Akta Pendidikan 1996

1. Conduct group discussions.

• Computers can be used

• Gifted students do not need help. If they

• Gibbs, G., & Habeshaw, T. (1989). Preparing to teach. Bristol :

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