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Removing the Mask This workshop defines poverty and how it can affect students that are gifted and talented. This excerpt from the workshop provides examples of how the characteristics of giftedness appear differently in students from low income homes. This workshop serves as a tool in helping me as an educator understand how my students living in poverty may not present the characteristics of giftedness as their peers.

Twice exceptional students Dr. Jack Naglieri speaks about the cognitive profiles of students identified as gifted and adhd, autism, and dyslexia. Dr. Naglieri goes over the differences in how these students present, as well as how to identify them based on cognitive tests. He focuses on how these diagnosis’s overlap and how they coexist within the 2e student. I found this to be very informative to understand how students identified as twice exceptional present in the classroom, and how to serve both their gifts and their needs.

This presentation on exceptionalities and economics was completed in my GIFT 6000 class at ECU with Dr. Novak. I included this presentation because it covers the complexities of gifted education through the economic lens as well as through the 2e lens. This is important to my group of gifted learners because I teach students who have multiple identifications, and basic needs being met through economic status have a large impact on students in the military community.

AIG Booster Shot: The basics of differentiating This AIG Booster shot from NCDPI breaks down differentiation models for the general education classroom teacher and how to best utilize this toward gifted and talented students in order to optimize their learning.

AIG Booster Shot: Tiered Assignments This AIG Booster shot from NCDPI explains the importance of tiering curriculum for gifted students, as well as provides information on when it is appropriate to utilize this model, as well as how to implement this into your lessons.

This GRASPS presentation completed in my GIFT 6200 course at ECU with Dr. Novak provides an example of an assignment following the GRASPs model for teachers to use with their gifted students. This assignment offered students with a project used as a tool for assessment of the standard being taught.

The Eight Steps to Curriculum Compacting This post from the Renzulli Center for Creativity, Gifted Education , and Talent Development breaks down the steps needed in order to compact curriculum. Compacting curriculum is an effective differentiation strategy used to support high achieving students while keeping them engaged and working in the classroom. This method of differentiation requires pre-assessments in order to determine what standards have already been mastered, what needs to be compacted and where to go from their prior knowledge.

The Gifted Guy This video addresses the 3 areas of learning and how to differentiate according to the standards and the lessons. This video goes over differentiation of content, product, and process.

The Grasps Assessment model This article explains why the GRASPS model is effective, along with what it is. It also explains how it aids in student's metacognition and goes through how to implement this assessment model in your classroom.

This Curriculum Design Proposal was completed in my GIFT 6200 class at ECU with Dr. Novak. It includes a synthesis of three of the curriculum models that can be used for teaching gifted students. In this proposal I summarized and reviewed the Parallel Curriculum Model, the Multiple Menu Model Curriculum, and the Integrated Curriculum Model. This is a helpful look at how each of these curriculums break down and the benefits of each.

Literature in Action: Introducing service learning through books. This service project from the North Carolina Association for the Gifted and Talented. provides a lesson plan that extends the learning of your students into a service project that also helps their local community.

We Will Write is a writing website that teachers can use in their classrooms to unlock creative potential, provide feedback on prompts, and isolate writing skills for their writing lessons. Students login with a class code and follow prompts to create short pieces of writing focusing on steps in the writing process, or tools used by good writers, in short, timed, challenges. We Will Write sorts students randomly into teams and then has them vote on their peers' writing. It allows the teacher to display writing and highlight strengths. This website is free for the first 6 months for the email address you use to sign up.

This article from Gifted with Goldens, Keeping Gifted Students Engaged: Teaching Critical Thinking provides great ideas of ways to include critical thinking lessons throughout the year- particularly at the end of the year, so that you keep your students engaged and growing and challenging their critical thinking abilities. This article has great links to free resources, and ways to implement them within your classroom.

Getting Started with Metacognition from Cambridge International Education Teaching and Learning team goes through the steps of what metacognition is, why it’s important for our students, how we can teach this skill, and how we can teach and encourage metacognition within our classroom. Macognition is more than just thinking about thinking, it’s about understanding and tracking your own learning to progress toward goals.

Using Local Norms to Identify GIfted Students: A Practical Guide This webinar goes over the Naglieri General Ability Tests and the importance of including local norms in order to have a more equitable representation within gifted programs. This offers a thorough look into testing, effective and fair assessments, and how local norms impact our identification process.

Teaching Critical Thinking through The Believing Game and The Doubting Game. This resource from the Morningside Center offers a game that you can introduce to your student to facilitate critical thinking and problem solving. This game will lead them into sometimes uncomfortable questions and situations that make them challenge their beliefs while developing these skills. This game is designed for upper grade students, but could be adapted to lower grades.

Development of Gifted Behavior. Dr. Joseph Renzulli discusses gifted behaviors, creativity, IQ, and how they come together within gifted students. Giftedness and creativity need to be developed in students.

Collaboration, Coteaching, and Coaching in Gifted Education in School and Online/Blended Learning This webinar featuring authors Dr. Emily Mofield and Vicki Phelps discuss their book regarding coteaching models and gifted education. This book is a great choice for professional learning for gifted and talented educators as well as classroom teachers with gifted students in their class.

A Gifted Service Model that Promotes Diversity and Inclusion This article breaks down the four popular program models- cluster grouping, enrichment classes, honors classes, and self-contained gifted classes. It breaks down the barriers each may present for diversity, and solutions for each.