High Ability Blog

Check out this new blog for resources and information on Gifted Education and High Ability Children!

http://highability.wordpress.com/

HOW DOES Access to Resources Create a Stronger Community?

Within your community there are many different resources that help your community to prosper and grow. These resources could include schools, libraries, police stations, and hospitals. When major decisions are made regarding the location of new resources there is an extensive amount of research done before any construction begins. Community members, government officials, and city planners will sit down with a grid or map of the community and decide the location for the new resource that will best benefit the community. One important aspect considered is the actual distance for the new resource from existing resources. A community may want the school and library in close proximity to each other but the jail to be located far from the school. Community sustainability depends highly on the location of its resources.

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What Gifted Students Need From You

An article that is worth reading is written by Anthony S. Colucci, a National Board-certified teacher and member of the Teacher Leaders Network, coordinates and teaches in the gifted-student program at four elementary schools in Central Florida. He is the author of Copilots, Duties & Pina Coladas: How to Be a Great Teacher and has earned numerous awards for his innovative and creative lessons.

Here is the link to the article from Education Week Teacher. It's the first article:

http://www.edweek.org/tm/collections/teacher-leaders-network/index.html


Practical tips such as using data to differentiate instruction and create appropriate challenges, maintaining realistic expectations about what your students know and can do, and supporting your students' social and emotional learning.

Education Week Events shown on the right-hand side of website offer webinars that may be helpful. I signed up for the session on Blended Learning. It's called Blended Learning Strategies for K-12 Leaders that will be given on November 17, at 2:00 p.m.