If you are a general education teacher, chances are that you have a wide array of students in your classroom. Gifted, special ed, RTI, 504 - you name it, a child in your class is in that subgroup. Educating these students can feel DAUNTING. How can I possibly reach all 25 students at their own, ... READ the POST
Gifted Students and Overexcitability
Raise your hand if you've ever had a gifted student in your care who is routinely excited, sensitive, and intense. His or her emotions run high, almost all day, and their social-emotional life can be an extreme rollercoaster. You, my dear teacher friend, have met a student with an ... READ the POST
Educators of Gifted Kids: My Three Wishes
This post is specifically for elementary educators of gifted students, but everyone can benefit from this conversation! When I was a brand-new teacher, I remember getting my class lists and seeing a "G" next to a few of my students' names. I had no idea what that G stood for. Great? Gargantuan? ... READ the POST
The Truth Behind Gifted Pullout Services
In my last post in this series, I talked about the idea of how we service gifted students across the country. One of the methods for organizing gifted education is different than the others, so I saved the concept of gifted pullout services to have its own post. There's a lot of hype and ... READ the POST
The Social-Emotional Needs of Gifted Learners
Have you ever taught a child who is easily frustrated by assignments in your class? Perhaps they are frustrated because the content is too easy, or perhaps they are frustrated because you are challenging them and they're not used to that. Either way, the social-emotional needs of a gifted learner ... READ the POST
Gifted Students Should Not Be Peer Tutors
Raise of hands -- how many of you have one or more gifted students in your classroom? I think we all do. We all have a child... or five, or fifty-five... who falls into that Gifted category. We've been told many things about those kids - how they learn, what they do, who they are, and why they ... READ the POST
