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 * STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING GIFTED STUDENTS AND /OR STRATEGIES FOR “GIFTED “TEACHERS…**

Engaging students involves presenting and negotiating appropriately challenging tasks and differentiating our teaching to cater for individual differences.
 * FOCUS:** CHALLENGE is important for engaging students!
 * Each student learns differently. Teachers should cater for differences in need, backgrounds and learning styles.
 * Involve students emotionally in their learning. Give them some control and some responsibility over their learning.
 * Feedback should be ongoing, constructive and individual.
 * Remember that teacher expectation can have a PROFOUND impact on the way learners see their potential


 * IN 7.1, where all our students are perceived to be gifted according to the criteria and information we have gathered, there would still be several different levels of giftedness! **

We need to differentiate and differentiate again. We can’t make them learn BUT we can provide a classroom climate, relationships and conditions that encourage students to be more engaged!


 * SOME STRATEGIES: ** Try to vary the way you present a part of the lesson. Perhaps you could begin each day with something challenging …or end…or set for homework something that may grab their attention and be a stimulus for discussion.

Using the Williams Model Blank Matrix could help stimulate some ideas…. Look here for some general ideas as well as specific examples for English and HSIE. [] (Specific HSIE ideas) [] (Specific English ideas)

**ANALOGY**

How is a lever like a friend? How is Othello like a puppet? How was your day like the weather? How are fairy tales like a rulebook?


 * PROVOCATIVE QUESTION: **

Questions that require students to analyse, compare and contrast, investigate

I.e. Antarctica is rich in minerals. Should we mine it? Ancient Rome is far removed from Australia. Can we learn from what happened there?


 * HERE IS THE ANSWER, WHAT IS THE QUESTION? **

Provide students with the answer relating to a question under investigation. In groups, come up with the question. Share and recognize creativity. Some students could work individually. Provide different answers to some students, they have to challenge others to come up with the question. Look at criteria for your answers…the simplest, the most creative etc.


 * Resource**: Murdoch. And Wilson. (2004) Learning Links. Strategic teaching for the learner-centred classroom. Curriculum Corporation (Chapter 3)