Planning for Gifted Learners

It's too much of a cliche to start a blog entry with "it's been way too long since I've written", so, being as we're all teachers here and everyone is too busy for words, I'll skip the cliche and launch right into something useful... hopefully.

After hearing from a colleague about putting together suggestions for new-to-Gifted teachers to assist with lesson planning, I started to wonder, "How do I plan for Gifted Learners, anyway?" You know, when you've been doing something so long that it's just "what you do", part of your normal mental process for the day? That's me and planning for my Gifted learners.

My boyfriend would tell you that I'm never NOT planning for Gifted learners... forever considering how a news story or science article or recent discovery might become a lesson. The map of my three year universal theme cycle - Change - Structure - Journeys - is ever-present in my head... like a spider's web, or sticky tentacles, waiting to catch whatever is floating past to turn it into a feast.

In an effort to try to illustrate the content creation process, I offer the following... with the usual caveat that, as with anything I do, once I think I've create something useful, I start to see everything that's wrong with it. In my current rediscovery of all things Sandra Kaplan, (thank you, byrdseed.com and #NAGC16), all I can see in this is that the Depth and Complexity Icons are not featured - so this can't possibly be useful. Thank God for my unwavering belief in iterations. :0) Expect improvements soon.

In the mean time - Happy Thursday, All!

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