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What? So What? Now What? Note Taking Chart

You are going to learn more about various topics that play a part in the ideal classroom for gifted and advanced learners.

1. Use a minimum of TWO of the resources provided, including Advancing Differentiation, to research EACH of the “areas to consider” on the organizer
below.
2. Type your notes in each of the boxes. As you type, the boxes will increase in size to accommodate your work.
3. There are empty boxes at the end of the chart. Add your own categories based on your questions from the schema activity, readings, assignments, or
personal experiences or use the Other Topics to Consider sources.
4. Some of this chart will be completed during Module 2. The rest will be completed during Module 3. Resources for each item are provided in a resource
folder on each module
5. Please note, that you do not need to complete the Affective Needs on this organizer since these areas to consider were studied in Course 1. You may
wish to examine resources provided since you will be incorporating our gifted students’ affective needs in a future performance task.
6. At the bottom, there is a chart for you to list the title of the resources you used. Remember, you must have a minimum of 2; however, you should
include any resources used on this chart.
7. Complete the topics for Module 2 and submit by the due date. Then, finish the rest of the chart of Module 3 and submit the completed chart by the due
date for Module 3.

As you read the articles attached and view the videos, keep in mind that you are looking at ways to create an ideal classroom for gifted and advanced learners.
Area to Consider Module What? So What? Now What?
(Overview of information.) This (Why is this important?) Provide (How will this impact your
can be a bulleted list. deep, meaningful, thoughtful thoughts and practice?) Provide
responses. deep, meaningful, thoughtful
responses.
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Building Relationships 2 - Ensure that you are saying
thank you and meaning it when
building relationships.
- A classroom that serves as a
community of care is a “place
where students and teachers
care about and support each
other, where individuals’ needs
are satisfied within a group
setting, and where members
feel a sense of belonging and
identification with the group”
(Ellerbrock & Kiefer, 2010, p.
396).
- Fostering a classroom
community begins on the first
day of school.
-A caring educator supports the
physical, psychological, and
emotional safety of each
student to cultivate a
classroom culture where all
students feel free to take
academic risks.
- Creating shared norms and
values with a class for your
classroom, rather than for your
class can be very powerful.
- An open and honest
classroom is essential for
creating a caring classroom
community
- When a teacher opens up to
the students, the entire class
There are so many different
reasons why building
relationships with your students
is so important. Part of my
teaching philosophy includes
that I provide students with an
environment in which they can
grow not only mentally, but
emotionally and physically as
well. Building relationships is also
important because it creates a
positive and supportive learning
environment. When students
feel that they are connected to
their teacher they are more likely
to feel comfortable, engaged,
and motivated in the classroom.
This also fosters trust and
respect between the student and
the teacher. Trust is a huge part
of the classroom. It allows for
effective communication,
collaboration, and a positive
classroom environment. Building
a relationship with students that
they feel they can trust also
allows for students to feel that
they can facilitate open and
effective conversations with their
teacher. In these moments
students are more likely to talk
about their thoughts, concerns,
and questions. This is so
important when teachers are
Building student-teacher
relationships is essential for
creating a positive, supportive,
and effective learning
environment that contributes to
the holistic development and
success of students. This will also
impact my practice by ensuring
that I am going to support my
students in the classroom. It is
also important because I need to
ensure that I am providing my
kids with an environment that
they are excited to come be in. It
was also stated in one of the
articles that by building these
relationships with your students,
you are opening up for so much
growth in the classroom. One of
those things being, higher
engagement. This is one of the
most important things to me as
an educator because I believe that
if a student doesn’t feel valued or
trust their teacher, they are not
going to want to come to school
to learn. Reading these different
articles only solidified my
thoughts on building that strong
classroom community. This is
something that takes place from
the very first day kids walk into
my classroom.
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Community Involvement 2 -Parents, families, educators,
and communities—there’s no
better partnership to assure
that all students have the
support and resources that
they need to succeed in school
and in life.
- The whole community has an
essential role to play in the
growth and development of its
young people.
-Over time this has switched
from families volunteering
within the classroom to a
school-family-community
approach. This includes
mothers, fathers, stepparents,
grandparents, foster parents,
other relatives and caregivers,
business leaders and
community groups that all
participate in goal-oriented
activities, at all grade levels, is
linked to student achievement
and school success.
- Parent, family, and
community involvement in
education correlates with
higher academic performance
and school improvement.
When schools, parents,
families, and communities
work together to support
learning, students tend to earn
Community involvement is so
important for many different
reasons. One of those reasons is
because when you involve the
community, you are bringing a
diverse range of resources and
expertise into your classroom.
This then exposes students to
diverse perspectives,
backgrounds, and cultures.
When students feel that
connection with their culture and
others in the classroom it fosters
an inclusive and open-minded
learning environment that
encourages students to
appreciate and respect each
different culture. This also allows
for students to have some
exposure to different careers and
industries. This allows them to
make more informed decisions
about their future career paths.
This connection can be made to
what we learned about some of
the difficulties with gifted girls
and even girls in general. It is so
important to expose them to
women in careers that are
dominated mostly by the men.
Collaborating with families and
communities creates a
supportive network for students
and strengthens the partnership
One thing that our school is very
good at is involving the
community within our school. I
think that this is something that
was affected when Covid hit but is
beginning to ramp back up. It was
so interesting to understand how
important this is for the success of
students. I think that by allowing
families and communities to be
involved in not only the school,
but within my classroom is so
important. This is something that I
can implement by ensuring that
the problems I am giving to the
student relate to the community
and real-life situations that they
would understand. This makes
learning more relevant and
meaningful for students.
Understanding the community my
students live in can help me
incorporate diverse perspectives
and cultural elements into my
teaching, creating an inclusive and
respectful learning environment
that reflects the backgrounds of
all my students.
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Leadership Development 2 -Leadership has been made
into something beyond us. We
treat it as a level of cockiness
that we feel that we don’t
deserve it right now.
- We have a hard time allowing
ourselves to take the time to
give ourselves the credit that
we deserve when we do things
that make us a leader.
- There are things that you do
every day that change people’s
lives, and you don’t even know
it.
-We let people who have
changed our lives for the better
walk around without knowing
it.
-“Our greatest fear is not that
we are inadequate, our
greatest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure. It is
our light, and not our darkness
that frightens us.” We need to
get over this. We need to get
over out fear of how powerful
can be in someone else’s lives.
- We need to redefine
leadership as being about
lollipop moments, how many
we create how many we
acknowledge, how many we
pay forward, and how many we
Leadership development is so
important in students’ lives. It
contributes to their personal,
academic, and future success.
Engaging in leadership activities
allows for students to develop
self-awareness, confidence, and
positive self-image. They learn to
trust their own abilities, make
decisions, and overcome
different challenges that they
might face. All of these things
foster growth within these
students. Leadership
development also equips these
students with a versatile skill set
that extends beyond simply just
academic success, but also lays
the foundation for responsible,
effective, and ethical leadership
in various contexts. This is also
important to understand
because we as leaders need to
understand what a leader is. We
need to be sure that we are
understanding that these lollipop
moments are huge moments for
the other person’s life that we
are affecting.
In my teaching I need to ensure
that I am fostering leadership
development in my own
classroom. I can incorporate short
lessons into my weekly curriculum
or choose to teach a thematic
concept unit focusing on
leadership. One thing that I would
like to begin to in cooperate into
my teaching is by sharing
biographies about great leaders
with different ethnic backgrounds.
This allows students to analyze
what made these leaders
successful, and students discover
various leadership styles and
characteristics. This also allows
students to hear about people
who came from many different
walks of life that became leaders.
Students need to understand the
different qualities that leaders
possess. In understanding this,
students begin to identify these
different characteristics in other
children and friends.
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say thank you for.

- As society grows into a more
cooperative society, the
importance of finding emerging
leaders had become crucial.
- Teachers do not receive
proper training in leadership
skill development, which leads
to students being given limited
opportunities to develop their
potential.
- There is a lack of a clear
definition of a leader, and this
is a problem.
- All children experience
leadership in daily life through
interactions with their families,
peers, and community
organizations.
-A child with giftedness in
leadership may be one who can
balance the many roles in the
various aspects of life. These
people can see both their
success and failures as a part of
life.
- Leadership education should
begin as early as preschool or
kindergarten.
Enrichment 2 - Academically advanced Providing students with It is so important that I implement
Opportunities students have unique and enrichment opportunities is this into my teaching practices. It
challenging needs. This important because it contributes so important to enrich students in
requires that they have to their overall development and the different areas that they need.
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opportunities to expand, grow,
and experience that which may
be difficult for a public or
private school to provide.
- Gifted students are defined as
“Students, children, or youth
who give evidence of high
achievement capability in areas
such as intellectual, creative,
artistic, or leadership capacity,
or in specific academic fields,
and who need services and
activities not ordinarily
provided by the school in order
to fully develop those
capabilities”.
- Gifted students need to be
identified, recognized, and
supported. They need to be
provided with enriching and
challenging opportunities to
stretch, grow, and develop
their strengths and passions.
Their social and emotional
needs are important, they need
to spend time with their true
peers, other gifted students
who share their interests,
abilities, and excitements
about learning.
- It is critical for these students
to receive these challenges. In
course one we learned that it is
academic success. Enrichment
activities challenge students
intellectually which promotes
cognitive development. Engaging
in activities that go beyond the
standard curriculum encourages
critical thinking, problem-solving,
and the development of
advanced analytical skills. This
also allows students to dive
deeper into the content that
they are exploring. This
deepening of understanding goes
beyond surface-level knowledge,
fostering a more profound
comprehension of subject matter
and encouraging a love for
learning. Enrichment
opportunities can boost
students' motivation to learn. By
offering engaging and
challenging activities, we can
ignite students' curiosity and
passion for a subject, creating a
positive learning environment.
Providing enrichment
opportunities can transform
students thinking. This has
allowed me to understand that I
also need to be providing my
parents with different
opportunities for enrichment
outside of the classroom as well.
This is something that can provide
students with that love for
learning that celebrates curiosity,
exploration, and a passion for
acquiring knowledge beyond the
confines of standards. I need to
ensure that I am individualizing
each student’s enrichment
opportunities to tailor it to their
individual needs in the classroom.
In doing this I am fostering a
greater comprehension of the
subject and encouraging that love
for learning in my own classroom.
These opportunities nurture
students' creativity, imagination,
and self-expression, contributing
to a well-rounded education.
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critical for these students to be

challenged and engaged in
learning because if not, they
can become bored and
disengaged with school.
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- There are many different
outside opportunities to grow
your child’s thinking. It is so
important that initiatives are
taken outside of school as well.
Student Engagement 2 -Not yet is something huge for Student engagement is crucial Student engagement is something
students to understand. When for several reasons, as it directly that has always been extremely
you have a not yet mind set impacts the learning experience important to me and my teaching
students are understanding and overall academic success. philosophy. If students are not
engaged, students are not
that their abilities can be Actively involved students tend
learning. This was a huge reason
developed and have that to exhibit enhanced learning
why I made the decision to take
growth mindset. Other have a outcomes by actively
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fixed mindset where they don’t
think that they can meet the
challenge at hand. Studies
show that these students who
run from difficulties might
cheat the next time or might
even look for someone who did
worse than them. They tend to
run from the challenge instead
of growing with it.
- What do we do? How can we
build that bridge to yet?
- We can praise wisely, not
intelligence, but the process
that they engage in. Praise
their growth, engagement,
perseverance, and effort. This
process praise creates kids who
are hardy and resilient.
-The word yet or not yet alone
gives students more
confidence. We can change
students’ mindsets when we
have discussions about growth
mindsets and how to foster
growth mindsets within their
learning. This improvement has
been shown within many
different studies.
-There are groups of students
who chronically underperform.
When educators create growth
mindset environments within
participating in class activities,
contributing to an interactive
learning environment. A positive
learning experience is cultivated
when students are engaged,
fostering a favorable attitude
towards education, and instilling
a lifelong love for learning. This
involvement not only encourages
the development of critical
thinking skills and problem-
solving abilities but also
promotes increased motivation
among students. The
collaborative nature of engaged
learning also contributes to the
development of social skills,
preparing students for future
interpersonal and professional
interactions. Student
engagement supports
personalized learning
experiences by allowing teachers
to tailor instruction to individual
interests and learning styles.
Student engagement creates a
positive classroom environment,
preparing students for a lifetime
of learning, personal growth, and
success in various endeavors.
this endorsement. I felt like I was
not best serving my gifted and
high achieving students. I was
providing enrichment, but this
course has allowed me to better
understand how to successfully
implement enrichment
opportunities for my students to
keep them engaged. I am going to
ensure that I am always using
growth mindset conversation
within my classroom every day. I
never understood how important
it is to make sure that I am
fostering a growth mindset for
these students. I always thought
that when a student has a fixed
mindset, that it was near
impossible to change that
thinking, and this module has
taught me that, that is not the
case.
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their classrooms, equality

happens. There have been
many studies that have proven
this.
- Once we know that abilities
are capable of such growth it
becomes a basic human right
for children to live n places that
create that growth and to live
in places filled with yet.
- Effort leads to achievement,
effective feedback helps
students learn and achieve,
and we can teach students
about the value of effort.
- Learning helps neurons grow,
the more students learn, the
more connections they make.
- Students can always change
from a fixed mindset to a
growth mindset. Intelligence
praise and effort praise is very
important to give to students if
you want to see a change in
their mindset.
- Girls’ achievements and
interests in math and science is
shaped by the environment
around them.
- It’s important to highlight the
struggles and challenges
because they are all apart of
scientific work.
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- Talk about the skills you have

today that you didn’t
yesterday, because of the
effort and practice you put in.
The growth mindset is about
being a lifelong learner.
Accepting risk and a certain
amount of failure is part of that
process.
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Differentiation 3 -An effective curriculum for
students who are gifted is
essentially a basic curriculum
that has been modified to meet
their needs. The unique
characteristics
of the students must serve as
the basis for decisions on how
the curriculum should be
modified (Feldhusen, Hansen,
& Kennedy, 1989; Maker 1982;
TAG,
1989; VanTassel-Baska et al.,
1988).
-It is hard to generalize about
gifted students because gifted
students are so unique and
different. Although this is true,
these students grasp concepts
more quickly than their peers.
They need time for in-depth
exploration, they manipulate
ideas and draw generalizations
about seemingly unconnected
concepts, and they ask
provocative questions.
-Content, as well as learning
experiences, can be modified
through acceleration,
compacting, variety,
reorganization, flexible pacing,
and the use of more advanced
or complex concepts,
abstractions, and materials.
It is important for teachers to
differentiate the learning of
gifted/ high achieving students
because gifted students have
unique learning needs and
abilities that are different from
their peers. Differentiation
allows teachers to tailor the
learning experience to match
the pace, depth, and
complexity that best suits each
individual student in their
classroom. This is also
something that can be so
important for teachers when
trying to prevent behavior
issues within the classroom.
We learned in course one that
students become bored or
frustrated if they are not
appropriately challenged in
the classroom. Differentiation
ensures that they are engaged
in meaningful learning
activities that help their
intellectual curiosity and
prevent them from becoming
disengaged.
Through the learning that I have
done throughout this course, I
have learned just how important
differentiating curriculum is. This I
is something that I have begun
implementing within my
classroom. One thing that I have
done with my students is
providing them with a
preassessment. This allows me to
see where students are before we
even dive into the new standards.
I also group students flexibly
based on their learning needs,
interests, and abilities. My team
and I have also begun creating
tiered assignments that provide
different levels of challenge or
complexity to meet the needs
of each diverse learner. Each
tier addresses the same
concepts but varies in depth,
complexity, or application. This
endorsement class is also a way
for me to provide
differentiation for my kids in
my classroom. Engaging in
ongoing professional
development enhances my
understanding of
differentiation strategies and
techniques.
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Rigor & Bloom’s/Depth of 3
Knowledge
-Blooms Taxonomy is a
classification process that is a
system that is divided into
groups/categories. Each
segment in this triangle is
represented by a different
category. These segments each
represent a different size. The
bottom point of the triangle,
begins with remember,
understand, apply, analyze,
evaluate, and create. As the
students move up the triangle,
the learning should be building
on itself. Students need to have
the content at the remember
level in order to be successful
at the create level.
- Each area of the triangle has
cognitive processes which are
the actions that a student is
taking with each level.
-Blooms taxonomy is a tool for
instruction. This can be used to
help teachers plan lessons,
decide how to build or
sequence an instructional
activity, decide on the optimal
teaching strategy, and review
and make improvements to
instruction.
-Depth of Knowledge (DOK) is a
framework developed by Dr.
Rigor & Bloom’s/Depth of This is something that has
Knowledge are both important affected my practice in the
frameworks in education classroom tremendously. It’s
because they promote higher important as educators to ensure
that the students in our classroom
achievement, prepare students
are gaining access to the quality
for real-world challenges, ensure
education that they deserve. I
equity and access to quality have began to make sure that
education, and foster depth of students are being provided with
understanding. By incorporating instruction that is more rigorous
these frameworks into when they have shown signs of
instruction, we can create readiness/meeting the standards
engaging and effective learning before other students. I now
experiences that promote design activities and assessments
student success. It is important that require students to analyze,
that students’ educational needs evaluate, and create, rather than
just remember and understand
are being met within the
the content because by focusing
classroom. Teachers need to
on higher levels of Bloom's
ensure that they are providing Taxonomy, we are also helping
students with the rigor needed students develop a deeper
to promote learning and understanding of content.
extension when needed. When
instruction is rigorous and
aligned with Bloom's Taxonomy,
students are more likely to
achieve at higher levels. They are
challenged to think deeply,
which leads to greater
understanding and retention of
material. By focusing on higher
levels of Bloom's Taxonomy, we
can also help students develop a
deeper understanding of
content.
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Norman L. Webb to categorize

the level of complexity and
cognitive demand required by
a task or question. There are
four levels of DOK. Level one is
recall, level 2 is skill or
conceptual understanding,
level 3 is strategic reasoning,
and level 4 is extended
reasoning. As you move up in
levels, the objective become
more complex. The
engagement of the brain
activity involved also goes up
as the learned moves from one
level to the next
-One size for education does
not fit all and this is something
that educators need to
understand.
Assessment 3 -Summative assessments are This was a very powerful This is something that I have
the final assessment post message. Through his message, always fought for when planning
learning. Something that was Rick Wormeli put a lot of things with my team. Learning this is also
intended to be summative can into perspective for me. something that I will ensure that I
keep fighting for. When planning
be turned into a formative Assessments help teachers
with my team we have always
assessment if the child ended measure what students have
talked about having a common
up doing poorly on the learned and understand where formative assessment. This is
assessment. they may need additional something that I have agreed with
-Kids can learn without grades support. This information guides but have always brought up that
but they cannot learn without instructional planning and some of my students will be
formative assessments and the ensures that teaching is targeted reassessed with the standard until
feedback that comes with and effective. Teachers should be it becomes something that they
formative assessments. able to point out where the mastered or begin progressing on.
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Students learn the most when
they are provided with
feedback on their assessments.
The feedback needs to be
descriptive. There are three
different parts of descriptive
feedback. What was the goal,
where is the student in relation
to that, and what are we going
to do to close that gap? The
process should be ongoing. If
our focus is on a summative
assessment, then the students
don’t learn from that. In great
lessons you should be able to
circle where students are
getting feedback from their
teachers. Classrooms that
focus on formative
assessments allow for mastery
and student success to go up
compared to a classroom that
does not.
-How students deal with
failures is so important.
Students need to have that
growth mindset cultivated
within them. Teaching is very
must 60/40 in the classroom.
We have to meet the students
where they are. We cannot
give them the ability to give up.
We need to instill in them that
assessment factor is with each of Some of the members on my
their lesson plans. By team don’t agree with the
understanding how well students reassessment aspect. I decided to
are grasping concepts, teachers send the videos of Rick W because
it was so powerful. Something
can adjust their teaching
that this had made me think
strategies, pace, and content to
about changing is providing
meet the needs of their students.
intentional feedback.
Assessments help teachers
Assessments provide teachers
identify learning gaps or
with an opportunity to provide
misconceptions early on. This
meaningful feedback to
allows teachers to address these
students. Feedback helps
gaps promptly and prevent them
students understand their
from becoming more significant
strengths and areas for
issues. By using assessments
improvement, motivating them
effectively, teachers can create a
to continue learning and
more engaging and effective
improving. I will ensure that I
learning environment for their
am more intentional with the
students.
feedback that I am providing to
students.
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failure is not an option. We

need to explain this to
students. We need to make it
okay for students to fail, but
that they recover in full.
-Retakes are important. Even
as adults we do things over
again before we can master it.
From time to time, we need to
open ourselves up to allowing
students to redo things. As
adults we are allowed to do
things over and over, so for not
allowing this to students is
astronomical. If you are a
teacher that doesn’t allow
students to redo assignments
that they have not done well
on, you are teaching based on
a conveyor belt. Not allowing
students to fix the things they
have done wrong is portraying
the message that “its okay that
you don’t do this”
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3 - While many advocates of
gifted students believe that the
ideal solution is to provide a
comprehensive gifted
curriculum with special
teachers and a variety of
enrichment activities, school
budgets often come up short of
providing for such a luxury.
Therefore, regular education
teachers are left with the
task of challenging their gifted
students within the regular
classroom environment. This is
something that can be done
effectively with a substantial
amount of effort and a
repertoire of research-backed
strategies.
-One of the most common
challenges that is faced is
boredom of a gifted students in
a regular classroom. For
teachers to help their brightest
students reach their full
potential, they must provide a
curriculum that is both
challenging and engaging. This
is something that will help all
students in the classroom, and
not just the gifted students.
Your Own
Engagement begins with
making the content relevant
and meaningful for the
It is important that a standard
classroom meets the needs of
gifted students to ensure equity,
prevent underachievement,
foster growth, promote social-
emotional development,
encourage diversity of thought,
meet legal and ethical
obligations, and support
teachers. By meeting the needs
of gifted students, teachers
create a more inclusive and
supportive learning environment
for all students within their
classroom. It is so important that
these students are provided with
a classroom that they will be
successful in. Receiving a “gifted”
class one day a week is not
enough for these students to
grow in the amount that they
need to.
This is important to me
because this allows me the
ability to give the gifted
students of my classroom the
ability to allow them to grow in
a general education classroom.
Ensuring that gifted students
feel challenged everyday is a
great way to keep these
students engaged and growing.
In doing this all students can
benefit from this within the
classroom. Another thing that I
am going to begin
implementing within my
classroom is relating content to
real world matters. In doing
this we are making the content
come alive to the students.
One thing that I do within my
classroom already is
differentiated instruction. This
is something that I have seen
student grow tremendously
when I began implementing it.
Adapted from Advancing Differentiation (SY23)
3 To be an educator today is to
exist in a constant state of
moving targets and new
mandates. New
standards, new tests, new
evaluation guidelines. This is
the fog that is being referred
to. all these external demands
are putting content, not
students, first. In schools lost
in the fog, educators and
students are so drained that
they are losing their
enthusiasm and excitement.
The most rapidly improving
schools focus on the art, not
the science, of teaching.
Successful teachers know that
teaching is an art and must be
tailored to students. The most
rapidly improving schools are
taking control and not being
controlled. These schools are
not succumbing to outside
forces. To be successful at
content, schools must motivate
students. Rapidly improving
schools engage parents and
community in dialogues around
the topics to gain their support
in fostering student motivation.
We need to adjust
instructional practices to be
more engaging for students.
Finding clarity amid the fog is
essential for educators because it
supports effective decision-
making, provides focus and
direction, improves
communication, increases
confidence, enhances problem-
solving, promotes professional
growth, and has a positive
impact on students. It is
something that is so important
for teachers. Getting lost in the
fog is something that can be so
easy to do. Being a teacher is a
profession that you have to love
to do because there are always a
million things that we are
expected to do and
remembering that we know best
for out students is something
that is so important.
This is a topic that I think sticks
with so many teachers. We are
constantly being given a million
different things that we are
expected to do, and its often
easy to “get lost in the fog”.
This article really just solidified
that we know how to teach our
students best. We need to
ensure that students don’t lose
their enthusiasm and
excitement, just like we don’t
need to as their teacher. As a
teacher I need to remember
that teaching is an art and that
we need to create lessons for
students that are tailored to
each students individual needs.
We need to ensure that we are
not succumbing to the
constant outside forces.
Students need to be motivated
and feel supported within their
classroom, and this is
something that I take pride in.
Adapted from Advancing Differentiation (SY23)

Social Needs 3
Affective Needs

Emotional Needs 3

Intellectual Needs (ie 3

perfectionism,
underachievement, etc)
: Thinking and Learning for the 21st Century (revised and updated edition)

Resources Used for Research: You must have a minimum of 2; however, you should include any resources used on this chart by adding additional numbers in
the appropriate box(es). Type directly in each box.
Topic Resources Used—Title and/or Link
Building Relationships 1. Relationships-The Fundamental R in Education.pdf
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag-Oyn8vIPE – The Power of Saying Thank You
3. Building Positive Teacher Student Relationships
Community Involvement 1. Parent, Family, and Community Involvement
2. Service Learning Fostering a Cycle of Caring in Our Gifted Youth
Leadership Development 1. Learning with Lollipops - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVCBrkrFrBE
2. Developing Leadership Skills in Young Gifted Students
Enrichment 1. Meeting the Needs of Academically Advanced Students
Opportunities 2. https://www.invent.org/programs/camp-invention
Student Engagement 1.The Power of Yet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-swZaKN2Ic
2. Nurturing a Growth Mindset
Differentiation 1. Differentiating Curriculum for Gifted Learners
2. Differentiating Curriculum and Instruction
Rigor & Bloom’s/Depth of 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cQwY-zZhlw - TreeTopSecret presents Bloom's
Knowledge Taxonomy and Depth of Knowledge
2. Gifted Learners Poised to Join the Conversation
Assessment 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJxFXjfB_B4&list=PLzFz35PAA7-
cxi75IW6y4UGeN0oCtn3Y81&index=8 Formative and Summative Assessments
2. Redos, Retakes, and Do-Overs, Part One
Your Own Topics 1. Can a Standard Classroom Meet the Needs of the Gifted
2. Finding Clarity Amid the Fog