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
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
Are you looking for an engaging literacy center that will save you time? Keep reading! Okay teacher friend, tell me if this is you? You spend way too much time every week planning and preparing engaging and differentiated literacy centers. Did you say “yep, that’s me!” Then let’s play an
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
What is a Problem Solving Mat? A problem solving mat is a useful teaching resource that will guide your students through the steps to problem solving. Each section of the problem solving mat matches a step in the process: How Can You Use a Problem Solving Mat? Why Teach Problem Solving?
