Gifted and Talented Education
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The Edvocate’s Guide to Working With Twice-Exceptional Students
Twice-exceptional is a term used to explain kids who have exceptional talents in some educational areas and challenges in others. In some instances, a ... -
Implementing Curriculum Compacting in Your Classroom
All educators agree that differentiating instruction for students is very important. Yet, many districts cannot put this policy into practice. An almost unlimited amount ... -
What Does Academic Enrichment Involve?
Academic enrichment activities in the class can take numerous forms and do not always involve prescribed lessons from the curriculum. Enrichment encourages learners to ... -
What is Academic Enrichment?
Some learners struggle to keep up in class. Other learners have the opposite challenge. For some learners, their learning moves through content too slowly, ... -
The Edvocate’s Guide to Cluster Grouping
Cluster grouping is a method educators utilize to meet gifted kids’ educational needs. If cluster grouping isn’t practiced at a certain grade level or ... -
What Matters When Identifying and Serving Gifted Students from Low Income Backgrounds?
Gifted students are those whose creative, intellectual, artistic, leadership, or specific content abilities are greater than those of the average student. Gifted children are ... -
What Do Grades Tell Us About Student Ability?
Back in grade school, I remember my teachers equating letter grades with intelligence and future success. This was always perplexing to me because I ... -
Personalizing The Curriculum To Challenge Gifted And Talented Learners
All students show an aptitude for certain subjects, but what about those students are significantly advanced in areas such as math, language, music, and ... -
Revolutionizing Gifted Education Through Mastery-Based Instruction
Traditional school systems generally adhere to “seat time requirements” in which students must spend at least 9 months in each grade level before advancing ... -
Implementing Successful Behavioral Interventions With Gifted Students
Behavioral interventions are tough to stage and stage successfully regardless of a student’s cognitive abilities and achievement status, but they can be especially rough ...
