CONT915: Teaching Students with Intellectual Exceptionalities: Giftedness
Gifted students thrive with exceptional teachers who can meet their diverse needs. Today’s education requires understanding gifted students' challenges, including academic enhancement, learning challenges, and social-emotional complexities.
This course provides a context of the historical concept of gifted education. It provides an updated and comprehensive definition of gifted students and their demands, using evidence-based practices and practical experience.
By the end of the course, you will be able to create meaningful tasks and know how to engage gifted students. In addition, you’ll confidently be able to address their various and unique needs.
Learning Outcomes
What You Will Learn and Do
In this course you’ll have the opportunity to
- explore the historical roots of gifted education and what that means for the field today
- learn the complexity and nuances of teaching gifted students
- examine the connection between social emotional learning and academic achievement
- become aware of issues in the gifted context, such as multi-exceptional learners and asynchronous development
- curate a practical and real-world connected collection of skills for teaching gifted students
Assessments
Module 1
Gifted-Who Is Included, Who Is Not?
Module 2
How to Spot a Gifted Student
Progress Update 1
Module 3
Social Emotional Learning for the Gifted
Module 4
Multi-Exceptional Students
Formative Assessment
Module 5
Asynchronous Development
Progress Update 2
Module 6
Task Design
Module 7
Course Culminating Task
Summative Assessment