Gifted education

work drama with gifted children for my thesis. He supported my idea and I will extend this project for a big group. Next Fall, I will start to work on my thesis in Baton Rouge. - Did you learn anything that will help you to be a more successful teacher with high ability learners? It was the first experience for me to work with gifted children in the US. I got a chance to see the one of EBR gifted class and it was great experience for me. I learned something about gifted education in EBR…

The main idea of this article by Karaman and Tochon (2010) was the fundamentals of language to gain a more profound comprehension of the feelings that new teachers who participate in international teaching situations gained in the nation of Ecuador. The only person who was the focus of this study was a future Spanish language instructor. Her record of the things she learned and her comments, analysis and recorded discussions represented the information that comprised the study. The…

sizes with various years of experience. A teacher with years of experience has knowledge gleamed from situations they have encountered through their years of service that is invaluable. New teachers come with valuable insights of new trends in education and ideas that a more experienced teachers does not know. The equity of teachers does not lie in the number of years that the teacher has been teaching, but in quality of instruction, they provide. While I was not surprised by most of the…

(independent variable) and student behavior (dependent variable). Gates measured these variables by admitting students to gifted education classrooms. These classrooms had a limited number of seats so not all so-called “gifted students” were admitted. So, Gate’s experimental group was those “gifted students” who were placed in a regular classroom and later told that they were in fact gifted. The theories used throughout this article include labeling theory, control theory, the pygmalion effect,…

What are some steps that might be taken to help students with learning disabilities, ADD, mental retardation, or gifted students develop literacy? There are many things teachers can do to help both students with disabilities, gifted and talented students, and even general education students develop literacy. It would be beneficial for teachers to: Provide students with tasks that are meaningful, interesting, and appropriate to their reading levels…

to completely revolutionize education today. Ability grouping, which places children with peers of similar skill levels, has long been controversial. This, as well as similar processes known as cluster grouping and tracking, became widely debated in the the 1990s. For several years after the controversy, the idea of ability grouping was not mentioned. However, schools have started using ability grouping increasingly in the past few years in the hopes to improve education. Today, many teachers,…

classroom.” 2. How would you differentiate your instruction to accommodate the varied needs of students (ELLs, racial diversity, gifted, special education, and slow learners)? She said “instruction is tailored to students’ needs.” An example she gave was when students are sequencing items to give some students fewer amount to sequence. Another example is one of her gifted students instead of drawing a picture for the vocabulary words, she would have the student write a paragraph. 3.…

Interview My main reason to learn what participants thinks about the giftedness in early childhood. Therefore, interview is a great tool for me to achieve that goal. The semi structured interview are will be the center of this mini study, since guided interview allows researcher to follow format to utilize with all participants (Litchman, 2013). Even though the participants know the purpose of the interview, I will begin the interview by providing information about (a) why conducting the study,…

thinking. One of the traits that “differentiates gifted students from their age peers is their exceptional capacity to perceive information and use it productively” (Parks, 2009, p. 261). As a teacher, we are “challenged to select or design instruction to teach reasoning processes that are abstract, sometimes requiring a technical understanding of logic” (Parks, 2009, p. 262). By evaluating the simulation, does it take information that gifted students understand already to a different level…

talents of our gifted children. The book says, "The characteristics of affective learning are gifted students ' self-concepts, personal and social adjustment, educational and career motivation, and values and moral thinking"(Davis, 171). Self-concept is important for all gifted children. Self-concept has several parts of development. The book says that students need to feel capable and confident, and this will lead to higher motivation. Another part of the self- concept is that gifted…