Over the past year and half there has been a push for the recognition of inequity in education that has pushed into how students are identified and served in gifted programs around the State and Nation. It is important recognize there is an issue in how states identify and serve students who are gifted. In ..read more

Over the past few years, my view on Gifted Education has shifted from the classroom to the whole state. I have been learning more and more about what it means to be a gifted educator from talking to many gifted educators and coordinators about how they serve students who are gifted. In Ohio, we are ..read more

Gifted intervention specialists have their hands full. Having a class with students who are gifted with many of these students having personalities that range from introverted to extroverted. Students who are gifted have unique needs that need to be supported, such as being multipotentiality, having perfectionistic behaviors, being twice exceptional, or having underachievement behaviors.  Not ..read more

What I love about students who are gifted is that many of them can be so creative, and think much differently than their average learner peers. Sometimes that creativity doesn’t always work well with others. Sometimes due to their unique social and emotional needs such as perfectionism, multi-potentiality, and others can sometimes make working with ..read more

Asking questions is art. Being able to ask the right questions is an art form. I was sitting in the doctor office this week, listening to him ask a multitude of questions to get to the heart of the health issue I was having. It occurred to me that this is what teaching and assessing ..read more

The education pendulum has swung to side where collaboration and teacher teams are becoming more and more popular. Teacher based teams are the norm in many school districts across the country. These teacher based teams work to help improve curriculum and instruction for students in their classes. As a gifted intervention specialist, I spent some ..read more

This week, I have started reading a book by Seth Godin titled Tribes: We need you to lead us. As I am reading this, I am thinking of all my friends who classroom teachers, not only just gifted intervention specialists. I find that many of the ideas that Seth is writing about can be applied ..read more

Before the start of the school year, I would always go through my class lists of students to see what I need to know about them. I would look to see if any students had an IEP or a 504 Plan. I would look to see which students were gifted. I also checked on other ..read more

Teachers have a lot of responsibilities and protocols to get through in the beginning of the year. Compound that with teaching many classes and collecting data to effectively teach our children. General education teachers have a tough job. They are the front line of helping find and identify students who may have learning disabilities to ..read more

Last week I blogged about the importance of connecting with students who are gifted. In order to connect you have to break away the stereotypes teachers may have about students who are gifted. Just like all students, students who are gifted are unique, and have their own set of challenges they may have to conquer ..read more