Illinois Association for Gifted Children - Classroom Differentiation: A Starting Point

Illinois Association for Gifted Children

Differentiation for Advanced Learners: A Starting Point

As the title suggests, this is a resource for you to initiate a “starting point” for you to begin on a journey to differentiate for advanced learners. It might also foster new thinking for more veteran “differentiators.” Because advanced learners spend a lot of time in mixed ability settings, the resources cited below focus primarily on meeting advanced learner needs in the general classroom.

Please spend a few minutes reviewing the “don'ts” of working with advanced learners in the blog entry by the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC). It is easier to avoid implementing a bad instructional practice than trying to break one.

Serving Gifted Students in General Ed Classrooms (For Do's and Don'ts): https://www.nagc.org/blog/serving-gifted-students-general-ed-classrooms

Websites:

Challenge Your Top Students

https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/challenge-your-top-students/

Differentiating Curriculum for Gifted Students

http://www.davidsongifted.org/search-database/entry/a10342

The Five Dimensions of Differentiation

https://gifted.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/961/2018/07/Five_Dimensions_of_Differntiation.pdf

How to Differentiate Objectives for Gifted Learners

https://www.byrdseed.com/four-ways-to-differentiate-objectives/

Six Strategies for Challenging Gifted Learners

http://www.ascd.org/publications/newsletters/education-update/apr16/vol58/num04/Six-Strategies-for-Challenging-Gifted-Learners.aspx

Strategies that Differentiate Instruction

https://www.tie.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/9StrategiesThatDiffInst4_12BookletReduced.pdf

Videos:

Differentiating for Gifted Learners Top 10 List

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR010kC3NRw

Differentiating Instruction: It’s Not as Hard as You Think It Is

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7-D3gi2lL8

Getting Started on Differentiation

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGYa6ZacUTM

The Musts of a Differentiated Classroom (National Association for Gifted Children): https://www.nagc.org/mini-course-musts-differentiated-classroom

If you have specific questions related to your classroom or school, don’t hesitate to contact us at the Illinois Association for Gifted Children. We are committed to helping you!

Illinois Association for Gifted Children

1500 Sullivan Road
Aurora, IL 60506

Ph: 630-907-5047
Fax: 630-907-5976

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