There are many different teaching philosophies that are in use today to engage students. Teachers provide whole-class instruction, small-group projects and discussions, and one-on-one attention when possible. The idea is to educate your students to the highest level of their abilities, with the focus on “everyone.” Differentiated instruction is a way to change this. However, … Read More
Gifted students are bright, curious, passionate, and driven to become engaged in a subject to the point of exhaustion (mostly that of the teacher). They simply want to know everything they can about a subject. And they quickly connect what they learn to other situations, to the real world, to other types of problems where … Read More
Classrooms today are recognizing that students have individual learning styles – different cultural backgrounds, different languages, different preferences for learning methods, different cognitive strengths and developmental timelines, and different personal challenges. Teachers in today’s classrooms are faced with their own challenges involving how to accommodate all these differences. How can they optimize each student’s growth … Read More
