Blog 3: video on gifted and talented students

Blog 3: Video on Gifted and Talented Students

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur64bToMpv4

This video talks about the facts of gifted and talented students and how to teach gifted and talented students.

·      About 6% of the K-12 population in the United States in academically gifted and talented.

·      18%-25% of gifted and talented students drop out of school before they reach graduation

·      In 2013, 14 states provided no funding for gifted education

·      Fewer than 45% of the nation’s secondary schools offer advanced placement courses

Gifted students exhibit an intrinsic motivation to learn. When you force gifted students to relearn information they already know, it will lead into frustration and boredom. Gifted students should be given the opportunity to utilize higher level thinking skills. It is possible for gifted students to have hidden learning disabilities.

There are several practical differentiation strategies that enable classroom teachers to increase classroom complexity such as adjust content pacing and content thinking. This video discusses how most teachers think that they are going to have a make a whole new lesson for gifted students because of the different levels that student is on, but that’s not the case. Differentiated the material is what teachers have to do to make sure that they are touching on all student levels in the classroom. This takes getting to know the students and seeing how their learning styles are. I think that it is important as teachers to see this and see how they do not have change their entire instruction for different students they just have to make sure each students needs are addressed for success.

Resources: (2015, November 18). Retrieved April 06, 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur64bToMpv4