Gifted students have a unique need that oftentimes a typical classroom is not meeting.
Todd Stanley
Todd Stanley is the author of several education books including Project-Based Learning for Gifted Students and Performance-Based Assessment for 21st-Century Skills, both for Prufrock Press.
Additionally, he wrote a series of workbooks for them entitled 10 Performance-Based Projects for the ELA/Math/Science Classroom. He wrote Creating Life-Long Learners with Corwin Press and is a regular contributor of blogs to Corwin Connect which can be accessed at https://corwin-connect.com/author/toddstanley/.
Author Posts
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As gifted students grow, they can’t be afraid of making mistakes.
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Schools need to do a better job of creating a continuum of services for their gifted population.
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Rigor is NOT giving more work to students with less time to do it.
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A gifted coordinator might be the only one in the school district looking out for gifted students.
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Sports have a tremendous influence on the school environment
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In Todd Stanley’s latest article, he discusses the death of Social Studies; if we wanted it to survive, we should have fought for it.
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Identifying the gifted students and providing support
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Gifted programs are as elitist as we allow them to be.
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Gifted funding across the nation is like the wild west. There is no law or controlling entity, so many states and districts decide what they will or won’t do.