The High Potential Education blog offers teaching tips and strategies for challenging your high achieving and gifted students. You’ll find posts with enrichment ideas, researched information about your learners, and teaching resources that emphasize problem solving, thinking skills, and teamwork. If you need help finding what you need, you can use the search bar at the top of the page or the category buttons below.
You hand back a test and notice your gifted student with the highest score looks devastated. They didn’t get 100%, and to them, that feels like failure. Many gifted students move through primary school with ease, rarely encountering a task that truly stretches them. This early success can mask a
The Maker Model is a framework for differentiating in four areas: content, process, product, and environment. Here’s how it works in practice with gifted learners.
“Can you see Brian, the invisible boy? Even Mrs. Carlotti has trouble noticing him in her classroom.” – The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig To mark Gifted Awareness Week, I submitted this guest blog post to the Australian Association for the Education of Gifted and Talented. Twice-exceptional students, rendered invisible
Imagine sitting in a classroom day after day, bored, patiently waiting for your peers to learn a concept that you mastered straight away. Enduring the slow pace and lack of challenge daily, your needs remaining unmet. Imagine doing this for years. We know that up to half of gifted students underachieve
Do you find yourself pulling your hair out trying to think of ways to provide enrichment for your gifted and talented learners? Challenging gifted and talented students in a mainstream classroom can feel like a daunting task! I am going to show you how to can cater to your high
What do you think of when you imagine a gifted and talented student? Does Sheldon Cooper come to mind? The Senate Inquiry (2001) into Gifted Education found that up to half of all gifted learners underachieve with as many as 20% leaving high school before year 12. There are 6
Are you looking for challenging tasks to give to your gifted and high ability students? Then keep reading… Okay teacher friend tell me if this is you? You have a few clever kids in your class, but you also have a lot of students who need extra support. You know
How do I differentiate my teaching for gifted students? What is the best way to support gifted students in my class? Do I need to challenge my gifted students? If you have ever asked yourself a question like this, you’re in the right place! This post shares ideas that help
This Harmful Quote Do we need to care less about whether a child is academically gifted? This harmful quote is pervasive throughout social media. I’ve seen it shared hundreds if not thousands of times. Every single time I see it my stomach lurches, my blood boils and my pulse speeds
Using Traits for Identification Knowing these characteristics will help educators in identifying the gifted students in their classroom. Not all of the traits in this list can or will apply to every gifted child. Each gifted student is unique. They may present with a mixture of these traits or they
