ARTICLE: What Gifted Students Need From You
"What Gifted Students Need From You" - a nice ditty from Ed Week / Teacher Mag...
My favorite part...
Maintain realistic expectations about what your students know and can do.
This is one of the most hurtful comments an educator can make to a gifted student: "You figure it out…you're gifted." Gifted students still need to be taught. While many are capable of absorbing a great deal of information independently, they still rely on your expertise and guidance. I have yet to see a student who can figure out long division without instruction.
Read the whole article HERE.
Views: 48
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by Stephanie Young on
-
This is right on time...I am now entering a new venture of facilitating advanced learner groups :-) If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, I will gladly accept them.
-
-
Permalink Reply by Ryan Goble on
-
Steph, you should describe what your trying to do (as I'm assuming you're doing this online) and post it as a crowdsource question in the New Media and Tech group since they have huge membership. If you give a few more details of your challange it seems to me like something people might really have ideas around! Hope you're groovy. Ry:)
-
© 2024 Created by Ryan Goble.
Powered by
