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
As gifted students grow, they can’t be afraid of making mistakes.
Schools need to do a better job of creating a continuum of services for their gifted population.
Rigor is NOT giving more work to students with less time to do it.
A gifted coordinator might be the only one in the school district looking out for gifted students.
Sports have a tremendous influence on the school environment
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.
Identifying the gifted students and providing support
Gifted programs are as elitist as we allow them to be.
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.