Gifted Student Professional Development
Scenario: Your school does an excellent job of offering intervention programs and resources for struggling students. Teachers differentiate work for students who have not reached proficiency on state standards and, as a result, your non-proficient students have shown exceptional growth on state assessments. However, after examining the data, you notice a multi-year trend that suggests that proficient/gifted students show minimal growth over time.
In response to this trend, design a 10- to 12-slide presentation for a professional development session for your teachers that addresses the curriculum design, instruction, and assessment of gifted students.
Include the following in your presentation:
- Define gifted education and gifted students.
- Share data and research that supports the need for differentiated instruction for gifted students.
- Share at least five different strategies of differentiated instruction that could be used to meet the needs of gifted students.
- Design two learning activities that you could lead during the professional development session that would result in a better understanding of effective ways to teach and assess gifted students in a general education classroom.
