Great Ideas for Teaching
Gifted Learners

I teach my Gifted and Talented program using an enriched and accelerated curriculum guide that includes learning opportunities to incorporate both cognitive and affective strategies for the identified high achieving student. These activities are designed to become a platform for discussions probing for breadth and depth as well as precision and clarity of rigorous and diversified academic challenges.
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Participating students are encouraged to reach their potential through problem solving, critical analysis and creativity. The structure of the classroom and teaching style reflect flexibility, broad based interdisciplinary curriculum, higher level thinking skills and activities that reflect variety and complexity for enrichment.

TOP 10 FAVORITE LESSONS
​(Rated by Students)
  1. Fairy Tale Trials
  2. Stock Market Game
  3. Third World Delivery Challenge
  4. Cantilever and Crane Design
  5. Saving the Ocean
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Students accept greater responisbility for thier own learning using Meccano Roboitcs .
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Students engage in complex levels of thinking by working collaboratively using Mand Labs Electrical Design kit.
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Students develop creative and divergent thinking skills using TinderCAD to design 3D objects on the Dremel printer.

Simulations and Game Based Learning Activities

Hubblesite
Amazing Space
NASA: Benefits Stemming From Space Exploration
Discovery Education: Lesson Plan Library: Understanding Space Travel
NASA: Imagine the Universe!
Discover Magazine: How Google Earth Has Revolutionized Archaeology
GlobalXplorer
Camp NaNoWriMo
NaNoWriMo: Young Writers Program
National Novel Writing Month
Code.org: Middle School - Computer Science Discoveries
Creative Computing: An Introductory Computing Curriculum Using Scratch
The Stock Market Game