What are the best ways to determine if someone is gifted
without forgetting anyone?
Individuals are considered gifted if they can successfully transform
their life experiences into successful outcomes using the abilities they have
been given while creative individuals engage in divergent thinking which is the
ability to “think outside the box.”
These two characteristics correlate with each other. A gifted individual can use divergent
thinking in order to successfully use their life experiences to be
successful. Both gifted and creative
individuals show high levels of self-efficacy and motivation.
As a teacher it’s important to enhance student creativity
through an open interaction style. It’s important
to create an environment where students feel safe to share ideas, engage in
divergent thinking, take risks, and make mistakes. Teachers should help students find their
interests to intrinsically motivate them to explore ideas. Teachers should give students choices in
learning and encourage students to generate and evaluate their own ideas. It’s important for teachers to allow time for
creativity to happen, so to design activities and assignments that encourage
students to use their creative abilities.
Students can demonstrate creativity in math by the way in
which they work on a problem. By letting
the students attempt to solve story problems without instruction, the students
can engage in creativity by choosing their problem solving methods. Students will have to think outside the box
to solve the problem, and when asking students how they solved the problem, you’ll
probably come across a variety of answers because they each have their own
unique way of thinking. You could assess
creativity based on whether their method of problem solving was unique, their
flexibility in solving the problem, or their ability to elaborate on the
problem.
Many time giftedness is determined by standardized tests or teacher recommendation. High scores on tests indicate giftedness, and in the case that a student is not a food test taker, a teacher may be able to recognize giftedness and then write a recommendation for the student to be considered.
ReplyDeleteGiftedness can often be forgotten because some teachers may think that students are just ahead or should be placed in some advanced classes for specific subjects and regular classes for other subjects, but it is important to recognize all students abilities individually in order to evaluate each student properly. I agree that giftedness can be determined by standardized tests or teacher recommendation, but I do not think that this is the only way to determine giftedness because some students may not perform well on standardized tests due to pressure, but are gifted in other areas. Teachers need to recognize abilities based on more than just a standardized test in order to not forget any one student.
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