Educational Issues Presentation Lesson Plan

Issues Topic
Group Members

Learning
Objectives
What do you want your
classmates to learn?

Assessment
How will you know your
classmates have learned?

Materials
What resources will you
need for your
presentation?

Introduction

Body

Closure

Engagement for Gifted Learners

Jocelyn A, Kasey H, Shayla N, Emily K

Date

June 1, 2015

Students will:
Understanding the value and need for having projects and other
activities for students to do if they finish an assignment before the
rest of the class/time is up.
Be able to apply strategies to class room setting.
Have an opinion on inclusion vs. seclusion
An example activity of how students have different abilities and
some learn faster than others.
Questions at the end of the presentation to get feedback and what
they would do for their students in this kind of situation.

Power Point Slides

Small math activity also will show how everyone comes to an
answer a different way

Introduce the topic and why we chose it. Discuss quickly what it is and why
it is important to not focus more on the struggling children, but give as
much attention to both ends of the spectrum. Dont aim for the middle.
About 2 minutes
Use the slides we made to guide us through dissections. About 16 minutes.
Includes a 4 minute activity to demonstrate what we mean. Also includes
question about what the class believes as good alternatives for students
who finish early.
Quick summation of what we have been discussing and short question
period to see what the rest of the class would do if they had children like
this in their class- would they use the same ways that we discussed or
would they do it differently? About 2 minutes.

Key Resources:
Litlinks: Activities for Connected Learning in Elementary Classrooms. By Dena G. Beeghly
and Catherine M. Prudhoe.
Accelerating Gifted Students in Canada: Policies and Possibilities
Catering for Mathematically Gifted Elementary Students: Learning from Challenging
Tasks.
Gifted kids faces serious school hurdles