Gifted and Talented Education
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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 ... -
How To Solve The Segregation That Plagues Gifted-and-Talented Programs
The sad truth about the majority of gifted-and-talented programs throughout the United States is that there are thousands upon thousands of high-ability students from ... -
Public Attitudes Towards the Gifted: Myth and Reality
Gifted and talented students are defined as: “Students, children, or youth who give evidence of high achievement capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, ...