Here is a PodCast I recorded with My Ed Expert on how gifted students can be underachievers just as much if not more than your average student.
Here are resources, presentations, and book suggestions to further the professional development of teachers
Critical Thinking Workshop
Tools for PBL
Differentiating Up
Protocols for group reflection
Think-pair-square-share protocol
Skills inventory list for groupwork
Skills inventory (elementary version)
Blank Performance Review Rubric
Differentiated Websites for Jigsaw
How do you group your students (video)
Finding a way to make heterogenous groups a reality (literacy)
Effective grouping strategies (further research)
Grouping students in math (math)
Tools for Successful Groupwork
Ranking of Executive Functioning Skills
Strategies for Coping with Weaker EFS
Video on Working Memory Strategies
Project Contract with Focus on EFS
Overview of Executive Functioning Skills
Role Playing Cards (Elementary) Self Control
Role Playing Cards (Middle/HS) Self Control
Reflection (elementary) - Self Control
Reflection (middle/high) - Self Control
Challenging student activity - Grit
Teaching the Teacher EFS infographic
Teaching the Parent EFS infographic
Executive Functioning Skills
Developing Grit
Talent Development
Tools for Authentic Learning
Compacting Curriculum
Tools for Inquiry Learning
Visible Learning
How Do We Motivate Kids?
Tools for Higher Level Questions
Underachieving Gifted Students
Twice-Exceptional
Slide Decks from PD Presentations
Academically Challenging vs. Intellectually Stimulating - There is a Difference
Asking High Level Effective Questions
Choose Your Own Adventure - Student Choice (part 1)
Choose Your Own Adventure - Student Choice (part 2)
Critical Thinking - How Do We Intentionally Teach It?
Developing Grit in Gifted Students
Executive Functioning Skills - and How We Can Deliberately Teach Them
Higher Level Questioning - Raising the Rigor
How the Hell Do We Motivate These Kids
Letting Student Voices Shine - Teaching Public Speaking
My Child is Gifted…That’s a Good Thing, Right?
Onboarding Students to Groupwork
Opportunities vs. Choices for Challenge
Parent presentation on Executive Functioning Skills
Power of Authentic Learning Social Studies
The Role of the Teacher in Groupwork
SEL - The Needs of Gifted Students
Showing Students How to Collaborate Successfully
Surviving Your 1st Year in Gifted
TAGT - Opportunities for Challenge
Teaching Executive Functioning Skills through Project-Based Learning
What is Twice Exceptional (2e)
Underachieving Gifted Students
Conversations with Colorado Association for Gifted and Talented
Webinars hosted by Prufrock Press
Book Suggestions for Various Advocates for Gifted Students
Books that Every Educator Should Read
When Bright Kids Get Poor Grades and What You Can Do About It - Dr. Sylvia Rimm
Genius Hour: Passion Projects that Ignite Innovation and Student Inquiry - Andi McNair
Differentiation for Gifted Learners: Going Beyond the Basics - Diane Heacox
Teaching Young Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom - Marjorie Lisavskis
Fiction Books for Kids about Gifted Kids
Gifted Program Evaluation: a Handbook for Administrators and Coordinators - Kristie Spiers
Beyond Gifted Education: Designing and Implementing Advanced Academic Programs - Scott Peters
Talent Development as a Framework for Gifted Education - Frank Worrell
Best Practices in Gifted Education: an Evidence-Based Guide - Anne Robinson
For Administrators
Genius Denied: How to Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds - Jan Davidson
Dumbing Down America - the War on Our Brightest Young Minds - James Delisle
A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America’s Brightest Students - Acceleration Institute
The Cluster Grouping Handbook: a Schoolwide Model - Susan Winebrenner
Equity
And Still We Rise: the Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Kids - Miles Corwin
Identifying and Serving Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Gifted Students - Debbie Roby
Unlocking Potential: Identifying & Serving Gifted from Low-Income Households - Tamra Stambaugh
Removing the Mask: How to Identify and Develop Giftedness in Students from Poverty - Ruby Payne
Excellence Gaps in Education: Expanding Opportunities for Talented Students - Jonathan Plucker and Scott Peters
Achieving Equity in Gifted Programming - April Wells
As educators we have to constantly challenge ourselves to learn. Here are books I have either recently read, am currently reading, or am planning to read.
