Angela

I decided to do more research on AIG students. In my classroom, that is the one group I feel that I let down. I do not feel that I effectively teach them and I thought doing more research on them might be able to help me construct better lessons to help them.

This article discusses ways to grow academic creativity in gifted students. It provided a lot of insight that has given me some ideas of different things I could try in my classroom. http://www.kidsource.com/ kidsource/content/academic_ creativity.html

The article below gives startling information about AIG students' social and emotional problems. I believe that this is one issue that is often overlooked in classrooms, I know I certainly have. It provides some strategies to help the children be able to cope with teasing and bullying. http://www.sengifted.org/articles_social/Schuler_TeasingAndGiftedChildren.shtml

In this article, social and emotional problems by gifted students is addressed and specific strategies are given to help these students at school. http://www.sengifted.org/articles_social/DeVries_AppropriateExpectationsForTheGiftedChild.shtml

The following article gives suggestions of things to do to help educate gifted students in the classroom. It also gives "don't's" for classroom teachers. It was very eye opening to me. http://www.nagc.org/index.aspx?id=659