Competency 001 Flashcards
(28 cards)
What is the rationale of gifted education?
Identify gifted learners, provide GT services, differentiate the curriculum, create high quality products to demonstrate learning
What are the 7 guiding principles for curriculum differentiation?
More elaborate, complex, and in-depth
Reconceptualize existing knowledge and generate new knowledge
Explore and value knowledge
Expose and use specialized resources
Self-initiated, self-directed
Develop self-understanding and social understanding
Higher level thinking skills, creativity, and excellence
Summarize the Texas State Goal for Gifted Education in Texas
Self-directed learning, thinking, research, and communication
Innovative, creative, individual products and performances that are
Advanced compared to peers of similar age, experience, or environment
HS graduated have produced professional products / performances
Who was Piaget?
cognitive development theorist - we construct ideas and need stimulating responsive environments to do that
Who was Kohlberg?
developmental theorist - moral issues
Who was Freud?
developmental theorist - biological/sexual cognitive development
Who was Erikson?
developmental theorist - social/emotional build on Freud’s biological/sexual; father of identity chrisis
Asynchronous Development
different parts of children develop at different rates - expecially common in gifted children
Sir Francis Galton
earliest research into intelligence testing
Alfred Binet
developed first successful intelligence test
Leta Hollingsworth
published first textbook on Gifted Ed and established first school for Gifted children ages 7-9
Lewis Terman
Father of the G/T movement who published the Stanford-Binet, forever changing intelligence testing
Sputnik - 1957
catalyst for U.S. to pay attention to Gifted Ed
Triarchic Theory
developed by Sternberg - giftedness is a well-managed balance of analytic (academic), synthetic (creative), and practical (common sense) giftedness
List Blooms Taxonomy from least to most complex
remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, create
Name the 8 Intelligences in Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Theory
visual-spatial; linguistic-verbal; interpersonal; intrapersonal; logical-mathematical; musical; bodily-kinesthetic, naturalistic
What is the US definition of gifted and talented children?
capable of high performance, require differentiated educational programs and services beyond those normally provided by the regular school program in order to realize their contribution to self and society
Who is Joyce Van Tassel-Baska
Founded the Center for Gifted Education in 1988
What are best practices for gifted student instruction?
Increase depth and complexity
student choice
enrichment opportunities
accelleration
Identification and screening
ongoing
provides equal opportunities for culturally and linguistically diverse students
What federal laws protect the rights of gifted and talented students?
None. Each state has it’s own legislative responsibility for the education of the gifted.
What are the educator requirements to teach gifted students in Texas?
30 Hours of training that includes
1) Nature / Needs of the GT Students
2) Assessment of the Student Needs
3) Curriculum and Instructionf or the gifted students
and
a 6-hour annual update of professional development in gifted education
What types of groupings are used in gifted services in a general sense?
ability or achievement groups cluster grouping / flexible groups cooperative learning groups cross grade / cross age groups sent out groups
What methods of accelleration are included in some gifted programs?
grade, topic, or content accelleration, AP or IB Courses Credit by examination curriculum compacting dual or concurrent enrollment early college admission distance learning
