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Gifted Students: Motivational Ideas The Future Belongs to the Learners NOT The Learned

How to Motivate Gifted Students

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Gifted Students: Motivational Ideas

The Future Belongs to the Learners

NOTThe Learned

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ByAlan Haskvitz, classroom teacher

• National Teachers Hall of Fame

• Named 100 Most Important Educators in World

• USA Today All American Educator

• Reader’s Digest Hero in Education

• NCSS Middle Level Teacher of the Year

• NCSS National Exemplary Program

• Learning Magazine Professional Best American Teacher Award

• Cherry International Great Teacher Award

• George Washington Freedom Foundation Award

• State/National Awards in economics, technology, environment, agriculture, economics, art, service learning, journalism, English, history, photography, creative writing, civics

• Featured on NPR, CNN, Time, Newsweek, and USA Today

• Featured in several textbooks, national television, books

Never been observed by State or Federal or District official

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My articles

https://carfamily.wordpress.com/category/teaching/

http://gazette.teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/author/alan-haskvitz/

Gifted education

http://www.teachers.net/gazette/AUG08/haskvitz/

Email

[email protected]

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Definition of Underachievement

• Underachievement is a behavior and thus can change over time.

• Underachievement is content and situation specific.

• Gifted children who do not succeed in school are often successful in outside activities.

• Underachievement is in the eyes of the beholder.

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What, Me Worry?

• Highly gifted kids will often adopt a pattern of avoidance of hard work when they have never learned to work hard.

• Many gifted kids haven't had to work very hard to do well, but that starts to change as they get older.

• They may have gotten away with avoiding things they don't do well.

• Another thing to consider is that many gifted kids, particularly the verbally gifted, would rather argue a point instead of using facts.

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Intrinsic RewardsExtrinsic Rewards result in a “What’s in it for me” attitude.

Intrinsic Rewards result in the building of self-esteem

Rewards need to promote long term behavior change. They do not need to be related to achievement.

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Not all gifted are the same

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Ideas that work Put away that rubics cube. Why? Only one goal.

Short term. What is the learning involved?

Cover material in more depth

Do less

Use a variety of methods

Appeal to their negative nature

Get them on your side.

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Motivation can be related to methodsAlter the curriculum, but don’t change the objective

Accept different proofs of knowledge

You need to realize that good words can be “bad words”

Fear of success

Always value talking to student and asking opinions

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Gifted students in most cases are good test takers have the ability to remember things more quickly, but they aren't gifted in the sense that they have a gift. What they have is a different way of learning, and even that may reflect only one part of the curriculum such as music, or math.

They can more easily retrieve data.

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SoApply

LearningSolve ProblemsDo Something

Push Outside Comfort Zones

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Dealing with ProblemsUse indirect approach

If you see a student having a problem, visit other students before and after your visit.

Use Lost Scout Approach

How did they get lost?

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Achievement is Not Motivation

It's important to remember that while you may get a student to do homework it may not be motivating to the child.

They need to learn where the material is leading. They need to see the path.

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Make it MeaningfulTeach them speed reading

Teach them how to write by showing them the structure writers use. End First

Give them the answer and they produce the question

Relate to their life

Make it “fun”

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Competition>Turn it to your advantage

>Importance of team work

>Help others be better

>Avoid “The Best”It Teaches Avoidance

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Learn by DoingSet Baselines

Prove that you know this

How would you teach this to others

Use variety of intelligences/methods

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CalendarDon’t underestimate value of large calendar andTimeline(what they learned)

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Learning Timeline

Today I learned

Motivating as they look backANDHelps them organize their thoughtsANDEnables them to see direction

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Create own learning aids1. Use cards (discard)2. Use Cornell note taking3. Invent secret note taking system4. Write their own textbookhttp://www.bookemon.com/read-book/198980

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Getting Them Organized

Battle Plan for the Day

Three Transfers

Linking

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Use Linking

Make connections across curriculum

Ongoing

Large sheet of paper

Daily upgrades

Reflections

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Teachers should be an

examplePublish, Research, be Active

It is motivating for students to be proud of their teacher

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Don’tDon't put up student

examples

Don’t isolate students

Don’t compare their work

Don’t judge creativity

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QuotesAny gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.Itzhak Perlman

Genius without education is like silver in the mine. – Benjamin Franklin

Each time we steal a student's struggle, we steal the opportunity for them to build self-confidence. They must learn to do hard things to feel good about themselves. – Sylvia Rimm

You can never hold a person down without staying down with him. – Booker T. Washington

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High Interest Siteshttps://www.awesomestories.com/

https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/PEOPLE-and-ANIMALS-in-MEDIEVAL-EUROPE-Animals-as-Defendants

The first recorded trial - in 824 - took place when moles did something wrong in the Valley of Aosta (near today's Italian-Swiss border). Found guilty, the offending moles were excommunicated from the Catholic Church.

E. P. Evans, in his 1906 book entitled The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals, tells us that judging animals extends back in time to ancient Greece. Even inanimate objects - such as a fallen pillar - could become a criminal defendant. The point of the cases was to investigate how terrible events had come about.

Awesome Stories is the best source of material for motivating gifted students based on content and diversity.

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Recommended Reading

Environmental, Familial, and Personal Factors That Affect the Self-Actualization of Highly Gifted Adults: Case StudiesDoctoral DissertationIntroduction and Literature Review,

Deborah L. Ruf, Ph.D.

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Number one way to reach gifted students:

EMPOWER THEMCharacteristics of gifted children predispose them to existential distress. Because brighter people are able to envision the possibilities of how things might be, they tend to be idealists. However, they are simultaneously able to see that the world falls short of their ideals. Unfortunately, these visionaries also recognize that their ability to make changes in the world is very limited. Dabrowski’s Theory and Existential Depression in Gifted Children

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Haskvitz's Student Accomplishments

Selected for Bright Idea Award by Harvard

Represented the United States in International Technology competition in Rome

Worked with Joy Hakim on her book, The Story of Us

Selected best from 20,000 entries and they testified at the United Nations on the importance of environmental education.

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Students' work was selected the best from 12,000 entries earned an all expense paid trip to Washington DC to meet the President.

The National Wildlife Federation selected program as best from 9000 entries for students involvement in political action and the environment.

Student’s integrated work in agriculture was chosen as one of the top 12 in the nation and was shared on national television.

Students’ research was published in the National Middle School Newsletter.

Students passed state environmental legislation.

Students Piloted the Close-Up Foundations National Community Service Program.

Graffiti campaign reduced graffiti by 90 percent in the community.

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Students' work was the centerpiece for the County of Los Angeles summit called by the Los Angeles Registrar of Voters and lead to rewriting of county and state voting forms.

Students' class work has earned trips them to the United Nations, Washington DC, Tampa, CNN in Atlanta, Sea World, and Disneyland in national competitions.

Students won five congressional writing competitions and over 20 essay and speech contests.

Students were finalist City of the Future engineering competition for industrial creativity.

Students’ work selected by Oregon Trail and California Oregon Trail group for their sites.

Students' work on environmental friendly driving techniques featured on DMV website.

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Differences

• Bright child• Knows the answers • Interested• Pays attention• Works hard• Answers questions• Enjoys same-age

children

• Gifted child• Asks the questions• Extremely curious• Gets involved

physically and mentally

• Plays around; still gets good test scores

• Questions the answers

• Prefers adults or older peers

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Differences Part Two

• Bright Child• Learns easily• Listens well• Self-satisfied• Learns with ease • 6-8 repetitions for

mastery• Understands ideas• Enjoys peers• Grasps the meaning• Completes

assignments

• Gifted Child• Good at guessing• Bored -- already

knew the answers• Shows strong

feelings and opinions• Highly critical of self

(perfectionist)• Is

mentally/physically involved

• Has wild, silly ideas• Discusses in detail;

elaborates• Beyond the group• 1-2 repetitions for

mastery

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Differences Part 3

• Bright Child• Completes

assignments• Is receptive • Copies accurately• Enjoys school• Absorbs information• Technician• Good memorizer• Enjoys straight-

forward,• Sequential

presentation• Is alert

• Gifted Child• Constructs

abstractions• Initiates projects• Is intense• Creates a new design• Enjoys learning• Manipulates

information• Inventor• Good guesser• Thrives on

complexity• Is keenly observant

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References How Do I Know if My Child is Giftedhttp://www.tagfam.org/whoisgifted.html

Differences in Gifted, High AchieversJanice Szabos, Challenge, 1989, Good Apple, Inc., Issue 34 Poor Teacher Training: End of Gifted Teachinghttp://www.teachers.net/gazette/AUG08/haskvitz/ Making a Difference: Motivating GiftedStudents Who Are Not AchievingDel Siegle D. Betsy McCoach Motivating Gifted Studenhttp://www.davidsongifted.org/db/Articles_id_10648.aspx

Helping Gifted Student

https://carfamily.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/how-to-help-the-gifted-student/

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Preventing Cheating

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Marylou Kelly Streznewski in her book Gifted Grown Ups: The Mixed Blessings of Extraordinary Potential, gifted people may make up as much as 20 percent of the prison population.

http://school.familyeducation.com/gifted-education/criminology/40932.html#ixzz1nzHxglDk

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I asked Mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have PAID for me. – Calvin (Calvin & Hobbes)

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Satire Videoshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr5kWOdkHYA

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Have a sense of humor

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Have a sense of humor

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Thank you for comingAlan Haskvitz

Email [email protected]