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Grouping For Gifted Learners – Part 3

16 January, 2020
Grouping strategies are highly advantageous for gifted students. There are a range or grouping strategies that can be applied to different teaching and learning contexts. These strategies provide academic and socio-affective benefits including increased levels of engagement, enhanced motivation and greater achievement for gifted students. In…
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Grouping For Gifted Learners – Part 2

2 January, 2020
Last week I wrote about principles and strategies for grouping gifted learners. Grouping like-ability peers is a highly beneficial teaching and learning practice for gifted students (Rogers, 2002). Schools generally group according to chronological age. But for gifted learners this can inhibit their opportunities to engage in…
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Grouping For Gifted Learners – Part 1

19 December, 2019
How can teachers best cater for gifted learners as they lead incredibly diverse and complex classroom environments? Differentiation for gifted students through enriched and accelerated curriculum is most effective when complemented by intentional grouping strategies. Grouping like-ability peers is a highly beneficial teaching and learning practice…
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Understanding Giftedness

26 September, 2019
Jayden loves learning. He finds it really exciting to start with a subject and then explore it in different and abstract ways. When he starts learning a new topic at school he is usually really excited, he can’t help calling out and whispering what he already…
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8 Strategies To Differentiate For Gifted Students

28 February, 2019
Differentiation to accomodate for varying student needs can be incredibly exhausting and time consuming for teachers. It can often feel like you have to plan three separate lessons to target support, core and extension students. Therefore, we often teach to the core students and then spend…
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Social And Emotional Needs Of Gifted Students

7 December, 2017
Students who are gifted have a unique set of social and emotional characteristics. Listen to Max’s story: Max has not only been highly gifted all of his life, but also somewhat adolescent all of his life…at 14, he can display a ferocious insistence for justice with…
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