![]() Chapter 6 Prompt: Gifted students have special needs just as other students with unique needs. Imagine yourself the teacher of a gifted class. Select a lesson you are familiar with teaching and reflect on how it would need to be changed to address the needs of gifted students. What technologies would you employ to support this change? Gifted students pose their own unique challenges for teachers, especially general education students who must remember that each student is individually gifted. It doesn’t mean that teachers should speed up their instruction for these students or skip over material thinking they’ll pick it up on their own; it means that teachers should engage their gifted students. Both my brother and I were in the gifted program in elementary and middle school; however, we are gifted in different ways. My brother is incredibly smart. I’ll never forget how my brother got in trouble for reading during class because the teacher mistook this as he wasn’t paying attention while he really was bored. He does well on standardized tests and multiple-choice tests whereas I excel at essay-type assessments and do dreadfully on standardized and multiple-choice tests. He is very musically inclined, and I am artistically inclined. In my Zoology class, I teach a unit on the phylum porifera and cnidaria (sea sponges, jellyfish, anemones, etc.). One activity that I had the class do was to create a poridarian, a new creature that fits both phyla. For gifted students, I would have them not just choose the characteristics that match both phyla but rationalize why those characteristics fit into their make-believe environment. Additionally, I would have them present their new creature as a new scientific finding as seen at a scientific conference, which would involve a presentation using Google slides, PowerPoint, or Prezi.
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