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Preassessment

Practical Tips For Pre-Assessments

I get a lot of questions about the practical details of running pre-assessments and setting up multiple groups in a classroom. I brainstormed a big ol’ list of tips I learned from my own experiments and those of my colleagues.

Tags: assessment, Groups, preassessment, tests

Pre-Assessment Documents

Pre-Assessment Documents

In a previous post, we discussed traits of quality pre-assessment. Here are three documents to help you make pre-assessment easier: a parent letter, a daily work log, and a rubric for grading project presentations.

Tags: preassessment, projects

Six Traits of Quality Pre-Assessments

Six Traits of Quality Pre-Assessments

Judy Galbraith identified boredom with school as a gripe of gifted students. This complaint is completely understandable. How many meetings have you sat through, going over material you had already mastered? For our gifted students, their school career is a long stretch of those meetings.

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Filling In Students’ Gaps

Filling In Students’ Gaps

I’m constantly reminded that just because a student is gifted, doesn’t mean they have mastered every skill. In fact, it’s just as possible to have a first grader reading at a sixth grade level as it is to have a sixth grader who lacks third grade skills. Being a teacher of gifted students means feeding their appetite for big concepts while also fine-tuning fundamental skills that may be lacking.

Tags: Inspiration, preassessment

Offer Choice With Extension Menus

Offer Choice With Extension Menus

One way to build flexibility into your classroom is through extension menus. Extension menus require upfront work to build, but offer endless options for your gifted students. Make them a part of your classroom culture and you’ll enable students to interact with content in meaningful ways.

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Differentiating Math Lessons For Gifted Students

Differentiating Math Lessons For Gifted Students

100%, 100%, 100%. If you’ve ever taught gifted students math, you’re probably familiar with those kids who can knock perfect scores out week after week. You’ve probably also questioned what good you’re doing for those students. A differentiated math program may be just what you need.

Tags: differentiation, Groups, Math, preassessment

Differentiating Within A Gifted Classroom

Differentiating Within A Gifted Classroom

Nothing stirs up behavior problems like trying to teach a gifted student something they already know. After watching my class average over 90% month after month on their Houghton Mifflin end of unit tests, I began to get a sneaky suspicion that some of them already knew the material prior to my instruction. This realization led to my use of the HM Theme Skills tests as a pre-assessment to create flexible groups.

Tags: Groups, Language Arts, preassessment

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