What can I do to reach the high ability students in my general education classroom

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What can I do to reach the high ability students
in my general education classroom?

• Liz Koesters
• EDEL 450 Inquiry Project
• Spring 2006

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Key Terms

• High ability refers to those students who are
  above the learning level of the average student
  in the classroom in one or more subject areas
• Differentiation the most commonly used method of
  altering lessons to reach the diversity of
  learners in the classroom, at all levels

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General Information

• Students who are of high ability in one area may
  not be high in all areas.
• Giving students more work is not the way to deal
  with a high ability student.
• Differentiation in the classroom helps all
  students, not just those with high ability.

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My Personal Connection

• In my student teaching experience, there were
  several students who were working above the level
  of their peers.
• I wondered how I could help these students to
  learn and grow at their level, without giving
  them extra busy work

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What to Do in the Classroom

• Differentiate curriculum using learning styles,
  multiple intelligences, and your own knowledge of
  your students.
• Teach using a variety of methods, including
  cooperative learning.
• Facilitate your own professional development and
  research methods to help you teach to various
  learning levels.

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Importance to Teachers

• Students of high ability are in every classroom.
• High ability students are ready for instruction
  above the average student
• Teachers need to know how to reach these students
• Knowing how to reach the high ability students
  can help teachers to reach students at all levels

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Benefits to All Students

• All students are not the same.
• Using a variety of teaching methods and
  differentiating curriculum reaches all students.
• Students of different intelligences and learning
  styles will also benefit.

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Bibliography

• Ellett, P. (1993). Cooperative learning and
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• Ellis, E., Farmer, T., Newman, J. (2005). Big
  ideas about teaching big ideas. Teaching
  Exceptional Children, 38(1), 34-40.
• Noble, T. (2004). Integrating the revised Bloom's
  Taxonomy with multiple intelligences A planning
  tool for curriculum differentiation.Teachers
  College Record, 106(1), 193-211.

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Bibliography

• Reed, C.F. (2004). Mathematically gifted in the
  heterogeneously grouped mathematics classroom
  What is a teacher to do?. The Journal of
  Secondary Gifted Education, 15(3), 89-95.
• Watson, S. (2006). Practical advice for teachers
  integrating gifted students into the regular
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