6. Be willing to examine your own teaching practices from a family perspective.
7. Be willing to distribute power.
By really listening to families and learning the most important factors about working with others is that you cannot completely understand, but you can be respectful and sensitive to your students as well as their families. Learning these important factors should be of great help in assisting a student to succeed. .
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42. Tawana is a high school student who is gifted and talented. She possesses an advanced level of language development and she is an excellent problem solver. Tawana has an acute sensitivity to the feelings of others and is very popular with her classmates. Tawana's teacher wants to make sure Tawana is given plenty of opportunities to learn, discover and feel accomplished. What are the four interventions or strategies most often used as interventions for students who are gifted and talented? Discuss some interesting ways Tawana's teacher can put these intervention strategies to work for her.
The four differentiation strategies often used to challenge gifted and talented students are enrichment, acceleration, sophistication, and novelty. Enrichment is an approach for educating gifted and talented students based on helping them elaborate on or extend concepts being presented to all students. Acceleration is an approach based on allowing them to move through all or part of the curriculum at their own, accelerated pace. Sophistication is based on helping students learn complex principles about subject matter being presented to the entire class. And novelty is based on allowing students to learn traditional content using alternative or unusual strategies that might include working with an adult mentor, creating materials for other students to use, or using a problem-based learning approach. .
Tawana's situation is definitely a common one. People often assume that a gifted and talented student should not be of concern but that is not the case.