Category: Creativity
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The first six weeks – Gifted students
The first six weeks is vital in any classroom – for the teacher and students and seeing as this is a gifted blog – how can we make sure we are supporting our gifted students in the first six weeks? We still need to get to know them but go beyond just likes and dislikes.…
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Adding challenge to a passion project
Passion projects are a bit of a buzz word and can be lots of fun for students to take part in – they get to choose what they study and also how the present it. But are they learning? When we create passion projects we need to make sure that there is: Challenge Limited amount…
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Encouraging creative thinking
All children need to be encouraged to think creatively but our gifted learners are able to really go beyond what we imagine the responses to be. Having a weekly prompt to encourage more than just creative writing helps with not only creative thinking but also problem solving, independent ideas, collaborative planning and working on ideas…
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A literacy lesson and more on Myths from different cultures…
In Year 3 this term I am embarking on teaching students about myths from different cultures and times. This week we started on what a myth is and how to tell the difference between a myth, legend, folktale and fairytale. But what made this lesson higher order is what we did next. Choose a natural…
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Creativity
Gifted children, from an early age can show the capacity to think creatively, critically and abstractly. Have you ever had them ask a question and you wondered how they came up with that thought? Or wondered why they have thought so hard about something that just seems trivial to you? Gifted children need to know…
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