Creating a positive and inclusive classroom climate for gifted students by EUN Partnership aisbl

2023-09-25 12:55:49 UTC

First o all, we don't have a gifted and Talented coordinator in my school. As for the various techniques mentioned, I have used some. For example, making learning fun is good for all students, not only gifted. Differentiation of activities could work but is extremely hard for the teacher. Giving gifted students a leadership role definitely works. Gamification is also a very good strategy as well as the use of technology.

Vasiliki , Greece

2023-09-25 15:20:49 UTC

In greek schools isn't very common to find a talented coordinator. So in many cases we try to find ways, to take courses so we could try to help aw much as possible. I create different games as kahoot, genially or puzzles (jigsaw) so they can learn having fun.

Aurora, Slovenia

aurora_calvet — 2023-09-25 19:01:14 UTC

We have a talented coordinator that doesn't make nothing for this students and that is sad. I try to work in groups, differentiation activities, leadership it depends on the student, but I try to make pair so they can help each other... I love gamification!

Edita, Lithuania

Edita_ — 2023-09-26 03:33:49 UTC

Creating an inclusive classroom is vital, with high expectations and diverse activities. Grouping across grades poses challenges. That's why we do lots of project based learning where they can be relaxed and motivated.

Alex, Italy

2023-09-26 14:43:48 UTC

Unfortunately, we don't have any gifted and talented coordinators in the Italian school system.
Focusing on the different strategies mentioned in the video, I can say I've chiefly provided students with project-based activities, sometimes aimed at creating some type of multimedia product.
In this type of context, I think talented students should be asked for a high degree of responsibility. This is why I try to provide them with specific criteria focused on some organizational skills that will be graded. This has proved to be effective in making them feel more engaged.

Magdalena Poland

2023-09-26 17:18:38 UTC

We haven't got a talented coordinator for gifted students. As a teacher I diffrentiate tasks for my students and I prepare additional tasks for gifted ones. I love gamefication and I use it a lot. I do agree that fun brings a lot of motivation in the clasrroom and is good for every one. I try to incorporate some funny elemets in my teaching. I try to support gifted students and encourage them to develop their passion and talents.

Monica, Romania

arotariteimonica — 2023-09-26 17:56:22 UTC

there a lot of Challenges in each school system.

ANNA, GREECE

2023-09-26 18:30:36 UTC

If a teacher wants to avoid routine in teaching gifted students, he should assign them tasks, let them set their own goals so that learning becomes fun.

Elisa

2023-09-27 05:46:43 UTC

I loved some of the ideas in the video and I am going to try to use some of them in classroom more often. Last year I faced a difficult situations with a classroom in which I had two gifted students together with several with educational needs plus une student within the autism spectrum. The extent of differentiation that I needed in every single lesson was exhausting when it came to preparing materials and projects. I have not yet found an easy or simple way to cater for such a variety of students. I really hope this course en lights me a little bit 🙂

Dr.Njoud.Jordan

ajloun_rose — 2023-09-27 09:28:21 UTC

Due to I work in gifted school.we diverse strategies like:
Grouping togather
Making learning fun
projec based on learning

Kerim, Turkiye

2023-09-27 09:53:22 UTC

I implemented project based learning. With a gamification method, they took positive ffedback when they moved to next level. In the end I delieved success badges when they finished tasks. I contacted the guidance teacher about gifted students. They take extra academic classes in my school but they are not much different from the ones they have in regular classes.

Jorge Conde, Portugal

2023-09-27 18:44:01 UTC

I usually use project based learning in my classroom, allowing students to discover according to their own pace and also being involved in group discussions. If they finish first they can help out their peers or I usually give them additional work if they ask. My aim is that they always have a call on what and how they want to work. This will help them feel emotionally secure and also develop their strengths of character or skills.

Agnieszka, Poland

amuc — 2023-09-29 07:47:27 UTC

I think that project based learning is a great opportunity for gifted students to be engaged in the topics, disciplines and subjects they like. At the same time - while working in teams - they can motivate others and create positive bonds with their peers.

Lidija, Croatia

2023-09-29 17:44:16 UTC

As many of you, we also don't have Coordinaters for gifter and talented students, so it really is up to the teacher to discover a child and adjust their teaching methods.
Since I'm an EFL teacher, I do a lot of project-based work and optional activities where students can really express themselves. The products of these projects are usually up to them, students decide how they will present the final work/product.
The one thing I struggle with is grouping them together - it may seem unfair for the rest of the class because then tey say that that group of gifted studnets is going to be the best, and they feel they can't do equally good. So, I don't do that. I mix them up with the others and ask the gifted to help other - peer teaching is what they can do.

Sofia, Greece

spoulioti — 2023-09-30 05:21:55 UTC

Unfortunately in Greece we don't have coordinator for gifted and talented students, and I don't think we are well trained to manage with these kids. We are trying to differentiate our teaching style, sometimes we use extra activities for the students that finish their assignments very quick. I would like to learn more things about that...

Araceli, Spain

alopezma — 2023-09-30 08:18:53 UTC

In my school there is a coordinater for gifted students and they work together in a project once a week and they love it.

Irene, Greece

milirene4 — 2023-09-30 15:04:38 UTC

In Greece we don't have coordinators for gifted students and it is difficult to differentiate the curriculum according to their skills and needs. However it is in the teacher's hand to help them and organise- plan the class and set goals. The teacher can divide them into groups to learn how to collaborate and not single them out. Give them additional tasks, prepare other activities and encourage them feel well, express themselves without stress and make the learning fun with activities based on their needs and interests. Especially, when the teacher applies gamification techniques to learning and promotes tech usage, it is certain that the gifted students would be happy and would enjoy the procedure.

Renata

renata_jakic — 2023-09-30 18:45:13 UTC

In 3rd and 7th grades, gifted students are recorded using forms filled out by teachers.
Later, they are identified through tests. Their teachers prepare a special individualized gifted education plan for them. We don't have coordinators for gifted students at our school. Teachers nurture students' talents within their regular and extra-curricular activities. In my class, I implement a lot of project-based teaching, where students have the opportunity to choose how they want to work on specific topics within the curriculum.

Corina Mitrulescu

2023-10-01 14:33:58 UTC

I have never come across the idea of having a coordinator for gifted students in a school so I found it particularly interesting. There are regional centers where gifted students can prepare under the guidance of specialists so I have always encouraged my gifted students to enrol in such centres.

Visnja, Croatia

visnjakovacvezmarovic — 2023-10-01 18:54:11 UTC

Yes, I paired gifted students in a group when we had group work in a class. They get the hardest tasks then as I know they will be able to do it. We don't have any support service like a coordinator.

Ruth, Ireland

2023-10-01 21:25:58 UTC

We are currently working at implementing a support coordinator, but I think it is so important to recognise that much of the work is done at the classroom level -- by the teacher being prepared to stretch and challenge the talented students in front of them.

Elpida, Greece

2023-10-02 09:28:24 UTC

In greek schools we don't have a coordinator for talented students. So teachers try to find ways to help them.

Alfonsina, Italy

alfonsinalauraraimato — 2023-10-03 14:46:46 UTC

Last years I had an Erasmus experience in Belgium. I was, for a week, in a school with an interesting project for Gifted Students. They have the possibility to skip some lessons in order to work on their own project (developed on their interests and skills). This school has also a Gifted and Talented coordinator, who dedicates all his time to gifted students monitoring their activities and progress, giving them advices and collecting needs, questions, difficulties.
It would be nice to have this kind of support service even in Italian schools, to better meet the needs of our gifted students.

Iva, Croatia

2023-10-03 17:13:40 UTC

In our school we don't have a support service or a Gifted and Talented coordinator. We try to support our students by including them in projects, grouping them and making learning fun.

Angeliki, Greece

2023-10-03 20:02:34 UTC

As already other colleagues have mentioned, in Greece there are no coordinators for gifted and talented pupils. We try to keep them enganged with modern teaching techniques such as gamification, quiz and project based learning .

Esra, Turkey

koyuncuesra — 2023-10-04 07:11:06 UTC

My school is for gifted students. When we say we need support services for them, the officials say they are already successful students and they don't need support services. Also we don't have a coordinator. We, the teacher are only supprt they get. I try to prepare extra activities for early finishers. They have the choice for activities. They can choose the tool to do the activity. Some prefers technology and some likes drawing, some prefers wiriting ,....It is up to them.

Emiliana, Italy

emiliana_rufo — 2023-10-05 09:12:11 UTC

My motto during the lessons:
My students "feel happy and comfortable" What can I do to make them feel at ease?
I like the atmosphere I can create in class, I want my students to learn without anxiety, I want them to wait for my lessons, where they can learn and feel well.
No one excluded!

Sandra from Portugal

sandravasc — 2023-10-05 17:24:49 UTC

In my school, I can say, that we have average students - some bright, some with difficulties, but they all help each other, because all of them have something to teach - even to us, teachers!!

Ana, Spain

anarociolucas — 2023-10-05 19:03:07 UTC

My school used to be a reference school for talented students some years ago. Students prepared projects, they presented them to the familiies and we had a coordinator that cooordinated the whole school. Now, it is no longer active because we have much burocratic work and noboby wanted to continue the project. Unfortunately, now talented students work in their subjects but there is not a common goal.

Iolanda, Italy

2023-10-06 10:12:37 UTC

In our school we do not have such a figure as a gifted and talented coordinator. We try to do our best as teachers

Valentina, Croatia

2023-10-06 10:21:09 UTC

My school does not have talented coordinators, all job with gifted students is on teachers and they are not paid more for that work. We also do not have help or some kind of support for projects or any work with talented students.

Anna P., Greece (Athens)

2023-10-06 15:28:47 UTC

I have sometimes implemented differentiated instruction, but not exclusively for gifted students.
Of the strategies presented in the video, I find that relatively easy to implement is to tap into and connect students' interests to the lesson. Also, anticipating further work ( attractive and challenging) or reading books from the library when they finish the assigned work is an interesting strategy. Also interesting, although difficult to implement in the classroom in Greek schools) is the opportunity for these students to use the computer for more personalized work.
Since there is no Coordinator in Greece specifically for these children, (as was said by other colleagues) the relevant guidance can be given by the General Education Counsellor or the Special Education and Inclusive Education Counsellor.

Marija, Croatia

marcagrh — 2023-10-06 20:39:31 UTC

I sometimes implemented differentiated instructions and freedom to chose their topic of interest. The problem was that I lacked knowledge and support to develop such topics and tasks into more details and also to make corresponding rubric for assessment. We don't have a gifted coordinator so we the teachers try to find our own way.

Mariana, Romania

m_gaiu — 2023-10-07 14:30:58 UTC

There is no Gifted or talented students coordinator in our school system. Teachers identify their students' needs and resort to different means and techniques to meet them. One of the strategies I use is to involve them in tasks/ projects requiring skills they have or assign individual tasks which are related to the lesson done in class but have a more complex level.

Marina, Croatia

marinamarkovicvukmirovic — 2023-10-08 17:08:48 UTC

I used some of the mentioned strategies as avoiding classical learning, in class a corner with books that students can read, I also use competitive forms of teaching when repeating teaching content.
In my school, we don't have gifted coordinators or a gifted service. Our school strives for it, but the problem is of a financial nature because we would have to buy tests.

Ioanna_Greece

technoway23 — 2023-10-09 17:25:33 UTC

As all Greek teachers mentioned above, no such coordinator exists in our education system. There are only school psychologists who take care of the children showing issues like dyslexia, school-phobia, etc. Especially in private schools that we are obliged to stick to the year schedule, it's very difficult to differentiate your lesson. It would be good if we had support from the school headmasters and the ministry as well.

vasiliki, d.Greece

2023-10-09 17:32:44 UTC

I give them the same opportunities as other.
They can help studeNts at the end.

Aleksandra, Serbia

2023-10-09 21:17:54 UTC

Giving gifted students the challenge and choice to set their own goals will enhance their productivity and enable them to develop at their own pace, which will additionally improve their performance. Whether it happens in the team of like-minded individuals or through an individual project, it is bound to have tremendous benefits, such as a boost of self-confidence and significant impact on students cognitive and functional development.

Brana , NMacedonia

bibrana — 2023-10-10 10:50:30 UTC

There has been a recently opened Municipal Comission for Gifted and Talented children , hope to see them delegating branches in schools. In the meanwhile , the Edu-Team in our school is dealing a bit with the gifted kids , but , unfortunatelly we are very busy with inclusion. As a librarian I try to attract the gifted kids from the school by animating them in different kinds of activities and projects- each to their own interest , just instructing them , coordinating and giving them space to pursue their interests.
While I used to teach , I supported the kids from my class only with projects and activities , in order to arrest their focus and also, adjusting them to the group.
Gifted and Talented Kids was my interest target from few years ago and I tried to make some kind of parent-teacher-kids community of Gifted and Talented kids, ran a few tests and a blog. All of which needs a proper update, hence my intyerest in this course.

Ana, Portugal

2023-10-10 15:17:25 UTC

In the classroom, there are always a wide variety of students, difficulties and interests. I often turn to the more advanced to teach those who have more difficulty, without emphasizing the characteristics of each one. In other words, I put them to work in pairs, strategically distributed, or simply ask those who finish their tasks to go help those who haven't done so yet. Providing more challenging work also works with gifted students. Or do research based on their interests, applied them to mathematics. Unfortunately, in Portuguese public schools, there is still no true integration of gifted students, so it will still be difficult to implement a specific service for these students.

Milena

2023-10-11 08:03:39 UTC

I have implemented most of the suggested techniques and they have a positive impact on learning, but the teacher needs a lot of preparation and planning to do this on a daily basis. I teach 2 subjects, 6 grades (10 groups), without a text book nor activity book, with different tech equipment in each classroom and it's impossible for me to do this for every class. It's sad, but it's true.
However, one of the techniques that I have never think of trying and that sounds great for two of my current gifted students is Allowing students to set goals. I think that this implements their interest and their skills, at the same time fights with the boredom they sometimes feel during the classes. This will also make them more engaged in their learning and in realistic in their expectations.
Sadly, but we do not have any support for working with gifted students. A workshop or a course for the teachers occasionally and some rewards for the students who achieved something on state competitions, but nothing more.

Dijana, Croatia

2023-10-12 13:55:30 UTC

There are no gifted coordinators in our school. All depends on us, teachers, how we manage and cope with challenges in the classroom. Working with talented students is one of my priorities and challenges. In the classroom are children with so many different skills so we always have to prepare all sorts of tasks and activities to accomplish the progress with every student. Giving them some level of freedom of choosing the materials and methods for theirown learning. Of course, guiding them through the process.

Cecilia - Italy

ceciliamancini — 2023-10-14 08:08:52 UTC

The video suggests some non-trivial ideas. I already use some practices now, because small group work helps both the more gifted and the less gifted, as does the presence of numerous books that can be freely accessed by all those who finish the activities early. In my school there are no "talented" coordinators, unfortunately. I can work better if I have a support teacher in my classes, this is an advantage for all the pupils, gifted or not.

Silvana, North Macedonia

sk437179 — 2023-10-15 13:15:41 UTC

I use most of the indicated methods in my teaching. Gamification is especially represented in my classes. As a mathematics teacher, every two weeks I set them a mathematical challenge in the form of a story in which a mathematical mystery is set, which the students have a week to solve and submit their correct answer. This method has a very positive effect on talented students, but not only on them. And the rest of the students are more and more motivated to think and solve the mysteries, which has a very positive effect on their success.

Rocio González, Spain

magnus179s — 2023-10-15 17:28:11 UTC

I have used some of the suggesetd methods in the video.
I have noticed that talented students love investigation and researching about unususal or original topics, they like using ICT tools, so the topics of the projects allow them to get involved in the work.

Amaya A., Spain

2023-10-15 19:19:34 UTC

A creative and innovative methodology is through eTwinning projects that work in a multidisciplinary way in mixed international groups. These groups are heterogeneous with students of different academic levels and aptitudes. We work on a digital platform, with current methodologies and in which the tastes and preferences of the students are taken into account. In each group, one or two student coordinators are chosen (among those who show the best level of leadership, usually gifted students) and all students in each group must participate in all activities with one role or another in order to obtain the QL. In the students' assessment, they all feel that their self-esteem improves, they feel integrated and they also get to know other cultures and colleagues with whom a great affinity can arise.

Georgiana,Romania

mariusgeorgianaantonia — 2023-10-16 18:52:27 UTC

We do not have a support service or a Gifted and Talented coordinator in our unit. Where there are cases, we support students by including them in projects and making learning fun.

Tanja, Slovenia

2023-10-16 19:21:48 UTC

the classroom climate is created by teachers, students and also parents. it is necessary to nurture a positive classroom climate, an inclusive and loving attitude towards both gifted and other children. we learn equality regardless of knowledge, appearance, etc.

Seyhan Pullukçu /İstanbul -Türkiye

seyhankonferans — 2023-10-16 19:25:16 UTC

Since I teach gifted students, I pay special attention to the classroom environment.

Anica, Romania

tanaseanicamaria2015 — 2023-10-16 19:41:18 UTC

I have noticed students in the classroom who are passionate about engineering, construction and mathematics, and I have suggested our school's robotics club or extracurricular activities at the city's Center of Excellence. We also had students who were talented in drawing and music and they went to the Art School activities in their hometown.

Lucica, România

lucy87ot — 2023-10-16 20:53:17 UTC

I implemented most of these thehniques i my clasroom, my children work as a team, play is the basis of all activities

Bettina, Germany

2023-10-18 08:42:50 UTC

All my kids I gifted, so most of the strategies are implemented.

Maria

2023-10-26 21:58:58 UTC