Gifted, Talented, & Creative
- Individuals who have extraordinary abilities in one ore more areas of performance.
- Currently there is no federal mandate in the US requiring educational services for students identified as gifted.
- Definitions guide school personnel and others in pursuing several important objectives. IDEA doesn’t recognize Gifted and Talented as a classification for special education services in most states including Utah.
The Seven intelligence's include:
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Characteristics of students are gifted, talented, & creative
- Early and rapid learning
- Enjoyment of learning
- Superior language ability
- High-capacity memory
- Recognizes patterns, connects topics
- Uses high level thinking skills
- Greater metacognition
- Needs for logic and accuracy
- High curiosity
- Long attention span, high concentration
- Imaginative
- Reflective
- Self-directed, works alone
- Moral thinking
- Perfectionist
- Nonconformity
- Excessive self-criticism
- Interpersonal difficulties
Services and supports for students/Environmental resources
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Enrichment:
- Experiences extend or broaden a person’s knowledge
- Educational experiences that enhance student thinking skills
- Classes added to a student’s curriculum like foreign language, mythology, or music classes. They are not necessarily difficult classes.
- Enrichment activities do not appear to detract from the success that students experience on regularly administered achievement tests
- The key to enrichment is high student interest, excellent teaching, and superb mentoring.
Tips for the General Education Teacher:
- Provide opportunities for enrichment as well as acceleration.
- Allow students who are gifted to pursue individual projects that require sophisticated forms of thinking.
- Encourage students to become active participants in various events that emphasize particular skills like science fairs.
- Differentiate instruction for all levels.
Accommodations for students
- Create a room environment that encourages creativity and discovery through the use of interesting literature and reference materials. • Allow flexible seating arrangements. •
- Encourage students to get involved in school clubs and extra curricular activities that support and extend their learning and experiences.
- Supply reading materials on a wide variety of subjects and levels.
- Create an environment where ideas are accepted without being evaluated and criticized; where risk-taking is encouraged.
- Provide a learning-rich environment that includes a variety of resources, media, tasks, and methods of teaching.
- Provide alternatives for students who complete their work early.
- Allow students to make choices in their learning.
- Help them learn to set their own learning goals, then provide them with the opportunity to work towards those goals.
- Create a contract with students that outlines tasks to be completed, concepts to be learned and the evaluation technique so students can be active participants in their learning.
- Evaluate students individually instead of as a group.
- Allow gifted students to take an assessment before starting a new unit to see what information is already familiar to them.
Technology/Environmental Resources:
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