Gifted Learners

What it means to teach gifted learners well is an article that discuses what gifted learners are. After briefing the audience on gifted learners the article goes in to great details of good and bad instruction for gifted learners. The article discusses how it is not ok to use gifted learners as another teacher nor is it ok to have them continue to work on the same content until al the other students are on the same page. These two bad instructions can lead the students to get bored when learning/ teaching the same content. Some solutions that the article discusses includes: Assigning gifted learners higher level content versus double the lower level content, and understanding “supported risk” of the gifted leaners to ensure that those students can take a risk by having support from teachers and parents to feel comfortable going above and beyond in the classroom.

What it Means to Teach Gifted Learners Well. (n.d.). Retrieved November 06, 2017, from https://www.nagc.org/resources-publications/gifted-education-practices/what-it-means-teach-gifted-learners-well