Description
What makes gifted students different from the rest of your students? Aside from the legal definition of gifted, your gifted students tend to behave and think differently than others. For each gifted student, there are cultural, racial, and economic factors that all affect them academically and relationally. Their gifted traits can have both positive and negative aspects.
In this 3-hour course, Dr. Colleen Boyle gives an overview of common characteristics of gifted children and discusses their strengths, weaknesses, and potential hangups. You will learn how to help gifted students work through common struggles and use evidence-based data to create solutions to help them succeed.
After taking this course, educators will walk away knowing:
- Key characteristics of gifted students
- Theories of asynchronous development
- Types of overexcitabilities and their influence on classroom performance
- The impact of giftedness on relationships
- How outside factors affect giftedness
- Strategies for managing perfectionism and underachievement
ODE teacher competencies: d, e
NAGC teacher preparation standards: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 5.5
Click here for a leader’s guide created by the Ohio Association for the Gifted and Talented.
Elizabeth – DANVILLE LOCAL (verified owner) –
I thought the information and strategies presented in this course were FANTASTIC! I loved all of the discussion questions and I thought the presenter did a wonderful job. I liked how she told personal stories from her own point of view and from people or students she knows. I was really able to connect with this course and thoroughly enjoyed taking it!
Sandra – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
This is great for classrooms with GT students and a good refresher for teachers on giftedness.
Michelle – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
A lot of great strategies to use in the classroom. I gained a very clear understanding of gifted learners.
Paul – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great course all around — addressed many practical issues that teachers face daily in a classroom setting!
Hayley – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
It was a good learning experience.
Norma – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was very informative.
Eve – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
This course is informative and beneficial for teachers.
Hiroshima – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was very informative.
Emilia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoy it. It was very helpful.
Angelica – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
It was super helpful to understand the characteristics of gifted students.
Jenny – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
The student resembled a dependent conformer. The student’s reading level was well above grade level but student did very little reading. The class had a reading goal each six weeks and the student never reached the goal. The class had an individual tracker to track reading and progress. Towards the end of the year student started reading more but not to her full potential. All students chose their own reading material.
VELMA – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
The course gives you information needed in quick short slides.
Suzanne – COLUMBIA-BRAZORIA ISD (verified owner) –
General GT presentation
Lisa – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
I liked the strategies to use in the classroom for the perfectionist and underachiever GT students!
Debra – ASHTABULA AREA CITY (verified owner) –
Lots of information! But, there were many great ideas.
Caroline – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was very informative.
Edward – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great insight on understanding and getting to know gifted students in your classroom.
Celina – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was very interesting and learned more.
Erika – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
great
Cecily – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful and informal when working with gifted students.
Alisha – CLEAR CREEK ISD (verified owner) –
Thank you!
Jose – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very informational.
Rogelio – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Nice, thanks for the insight.
Vanessa – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
Pia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This was an excellent course! Very informative!
DIANA – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
Course was good but way too much information for me.
Belinda – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Great insight!
Kelley – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
I thought it was very informative
Elise – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
well done though sometimes the pacing was too slow
Shelley – MARION CITY (verified owner) –
Good overview of giftedness.
Brandon – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
An acceptable intro to the material.
Melissa – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
Lots on information about gifted students
James – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
Too much just explaining not enough interaction.
Sandee – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
This is the first of the courses that has been useful or interesting.
Samantha – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
The content was excellent.
Laurie – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
Would probably be fine if it aligned at all with the population that I teach, but it doesn’t so it feels like a state mandated waste of my time which is actually taking resources FROM my stident population.
Nathaniel – Bedford City School District (verified owner) –
It was good. I would have preferred more frequent Reflection Questions and Quizzes to stay engaged with the material.
Daniel – RIVER VIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –
Valuable information
Candy – MERCEDES ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative all the type of categories for Underachievement.
Anthony – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
Very informative, a ton of strategies
Cari – RIVER VIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –
This course was excellent and very informative. I was able to relate the concepts to what I face in my own classroom.
Abbey – ST MARYS CITY (verified owner) –
This was a good course.
Josh – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
Very helpful as an introduction to gifted learners.
Erin – MARION CITY (verified owner) –
Great detail and lots of really good information!
Mitchell – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
Repetitive at times, especially for someone with experience with gifted kids. A lot of new terminology for things that are commonly known. Great for those having never experienced this population in the classroom.
Rebecca – EASTERN LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This was very informational, insightful, and established the importance to assess what type of gifted student we have and how to encourage healthy perfectionism.
Dee – Yellow Springs Exempted Village (verified owner) –
Lots of information
Chaunci – SPRINGFIELD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the course!
Kimberly – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
Liked the information of the course, it aligned well with my experiences as a teacher
Janah – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
This is very relevant and I learned many things that I can now use in my classroom.