What should a teacher do when one or more alights in the classroom? This field guide will begin to help answer that question. Gifted students are rare birds, truly neurodivergent. They must consider the needs of such a diverse array of learners, often in several subjects. This field guide, as you call it, seems very usable. She and I both wish I’d known the term “deviance fatigue,” for example, back then! I know that when I first “met” my daughter, and as I watched her grow up, I didn’t have much vocabulary for what was going on, nor much understanding. This book aims to help educators identify and begin to support their gifted learners. School can feel like the wrong fit for many gifted learners. This book is an illustrated introductory workbook designed primarily for teachers. That's one of the reasons we wrote this book. High achievement is very possible for them, but not guaranteed at all. And - importantly - they are learners who are often at risk. Rubrics are not often their natural habitats. One of the ways I look at it is that gifted students are quite likely to take an unusual route to an unexpected destination. The state of Maine defines gifted children as those in grades K–12 who excel, or have the potential to excel, beyond their age peers, in the regular school program, to the extent that they need and can benefit from programming for the gifted and talented. What we put on our gifted and talented instructional support site in my district is, for starters, the following: There are many definitions of giftedness, ranging from the very narrow (the top 1% of the population based on IQ) to the very broad (the top 20% based on the School-wide Enrichment Model). What exactly is a gifted student? It's more than just the smartest kid in the grade, right? about writing for teachers, common characteristics, and who gets missed. Agell, a teacher at an elementary school and middle school in Yarmouth, Maine, talked to Ed. These are just three of the 12 fictional neurodivergent students that Charlotte Agell, Ed.M.’86, profiles with Molly Kellogg in her new book, A Field Guild to Gifted Students - her 15th book overall. And Pam, a shy third-grader who checked out a dozen books from the school library just before winter break and can talk about blimps and batting averages in depth. rewriting an already perfect paper and has meltdowns. Haley, the perfectionist who stays up until 1 a.m. There’s Louis, the fifth-grader who can talk about concepts like the inner workings of a computer and the language of music.
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