Chapter 13 Vocab and Question Flashcards
Ability grouping:
Placing students with similar levels of achievement and skill into the same classes or instructional groups
Acceleration:
An educational approach that provides a child with learning experiences usually given to older children, most often used for gifted kids
Asynchrony
A term used to describe the disparate rates of intellectual, emotional, and physical growth or development characteristic of main gifted kids
Bloom’s taxonomy
A hierarchy of educational objectives consisting of six types of cognitive understanding. Used as framework for differentiating curriculum.
Cluster ability grouping
A small group of highest performing students at a given grade level learn together as a group in a regular classroom of mix ability students
Curriculum compacting:
Strategy for differentiating curriculum for gifted and talented students by replacing content that students already mastered with more challenging material.
Differentiation
A broad term referring to tailoring teaching practices to create appropriately different learning experiences for students with different needs, interests, readiness and learning profiles.
Enrichment
A approach that provides a child with extra learning experiences that the standard curriculum would not normally include
Inquiry-based learning:
A method of teaching science that engages students in asking research questions, planning investigations, collected data…
Problem-based learning
A strategy in which students work in groups to seek solution to real-world problems.
Project-based learning
A activity in which student work in groups to investigate an authentic question and produce a product that answer the question
Tiered lesson:
A lesson that entails different extensions of the same basic lesson for groups of student of differing abilities.
Twice exceptional
Term used to describe an individual who is gifted and also has a disability.
How does Renzulli define GS?
Traits of above-average general abilities, high-level task commitment and creativity.
How does Piirto define GS?
Having superior memory, observational powers, curiosity, creativity and ability to learn
