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.
Do you ever ask yourself “How can I challenge my gifted and talented students in math?” Gifted and talented students make up approximately 10% of students in each class. As educators, it’s our responsibility to provide these students with challenging and engaging learning opportunities to help them reach their full potential!
Myth 1: Gifted students are good at everything! This simply isn’t true! When I asked my daughter’s pre-primary teacher if she thought she could be gifted (not a question I asked lightly) she said “no, because she isn’t good at everything.” Boy was she wrong! Formal assessment later showed her
