Why do under- achieving gifted students from diverse populations need special considerations for programming and curricular options?

Why do under- achieving gifted students from diverse populations need special considerations for programming and curricular options?

Understand the individual character- istics, attitudes, and circum- stances that can affect the achievement of a gifted student from diverse populations.

Explore ways to identify gifted students from special populations who are unsuccessful in school.

Identify strategies to assist these students.
Examine the character- istics and needs of these students.

 

Choice 1: Choose an Interest Inventory from the internet that would work with your population of students. Choose a sample of underachieving minority gifted students (minimum of three) and give them the inventory to completed. Use this information to develop activities (minimum of three activities per student) that are appropriate and engaging for these students. The activities should be standard based, derive from the students interest and work with the curriculum you teach.

Upload the completed inventories filled out by the students (feel free to scan or send a screen shot if the inventory was completed on-line) - include a typed word document that identifies how your activities match student interests and your curriculum.

Choice 2: Develop a rubric for identifying appropriate observable classroom practices by teachers that would indicate an environment that could potentially reverse underachievement in gifted students. The rubric should include beginning, developing and applying descriptions that can be used by administrators to document the teacher's behaviors. Minimum 7 areas of teacher/student contact, classroom policies and teacher behaviors. (Remember the rubric is grading the teacher not the student)

 

Interest Inventory

Completed rubric with observable classroom practices

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