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Jennifer Bumgardner | 12:37 PM

As a teacher, I differentiate for my gifted students through content (the curriculum student access and how they access it), process (how teachers sequence the learning and the ways in which students learn), product (how students demonstrate what they have learned), and environment (how learning is structured).  I also utilize different types of lesson plans in which differentiation is built-in: Kaplan, technology, choice boards, Bloom's Revised Cognitive Taxonomy, Taba, Creative Problem Solving, etc. Currently in Enrichment and AIG, I am implementing Genius Hour during which students have about 45 minutes per week to work on a passion project. They will present their passion projects to others when it is complete. We spend about 6 weeks on this.

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If a student has shown mastery of a concept, their time is better spent going deeper with an extension or enrichment activity. I call these "expert projects". Students take ownership over one specific aspect of a broad topic, create a PowerPoint or other presentation of their choice, and then teach the class.

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I implement book clubs as an extension of Guided Reading. I meet with the high group once a week to check in and see if they need anything specific. The rest of the time, they are involved in book club discussions and projects.

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Have gifted scholars do the most difficult math problems first. If you see that they understand the concept, there is no need for them to waste time on the easy problems. They should be doing something more meaningful with their time.

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You can implement word study groups where the gifted scholars analyze multisyllabic words or prefixes and suffixes. After introduction of the concept, they collaborate and complete activities/projects as a team.

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Scholars could write their own math word problems demonstrating their understanding of a particular concept.

Students could take a current science or social studies topic and write their own Readers' Theatre script to reflect their deeper understanding.

Scholars could write quality EOG-like questions in reading or math with answer choices (2 ridiculous, 1 close, 1 correct).

Anything that makes them delve deeper into a grade level topic is great!

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There's a couple things I do: I might pair them with a scholar that could be struggling. I have found scholars learn well from their peers because it's explain through through the brain of a child rather than an adult. If it's math or reading, I might give them an assignment that extends on what we are doing taking it a step further with more critical thinking or task that are higher on Blooms because it's still the same concept, but a little more challenging.

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Pair them with scholars that are below grade level and let them explain from their student point of views to help each other.

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With gifted students, you have to give them above grade level text. During Guided Reading or WIN time is a great time to give them more challenging activities.