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Strategies and Methods For Teaching The Talented and Gifted Children
Strategies and Methods For Teaching The Talented and Gifted Children
Improvement of Education:
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.
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.