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I used this to present about gifted ed to our elementary school staff. While the presentation covers everything from academic, social, and emotional needs of gifted students it also helps classroom teachers with understanding who to refer for gifted testing. Stephanie Tolan's article "Is it a Cheetah" was the main resource used for the presentation. She captures the essence of these children who maybe aren't the "teacher pleasers," but are in fact gifted and need gifted services and support i

This presentation was created during March Madness, so I went with a "Final Four" theme. The presentation introduces and supports four simple instructional strategies to encourage critical and creative thinking in gifted and high-achieving students. The four strategies include: 1.Inductive Reasoning 2.Providing Comfortable Struggle, Disable Intuition 3.Socratic Questioning 4.Nurturing a Growth Mindset

This purchase includes 10 daily math challenges, directions, rationale, and an answer key. Each challenge is presented on a separate slide with directions specific to that challenge. Challenges in this set include: Which One Doesn't Belong? What's the Question? Would You Rather...? and Notice and Wonder IF YOU LOVE THESE.... For more 2 week math sets OR for the entire set please visit my store at https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Miss-U And, for Creativity/ELA/Critical Thinkin

Teachers love learning about Instructional Strategies that are easy to implement and provide engaging and thought-provoking opportunities for learning. The goal in this presentation was to provide teachers with simple additions to their everyday teaching that can provide that little "extra" to encourage more critical thinking in the classroom. This presentation includes plenty of examples of how to use Inductive Reasoning, Providing Comfortable Struggle, Disabling Intuition, and Group Investi

To celebrate the new year, present this unique challenge to your gifted math students. The directions are explained on the worksheet. Students will need to use math processes to arrive at the value of the new year number, beginning with their age number and moving through ten steps. Students will begin to see the magic of numbers, patterns, and the power that we have in arriving at the answers we need, sometimes through some trial and error, as they complete this New Years Math Challenge.

This purchase includes 10 daily math challenges, directions, rationale, and an answer key. Each challenge is presented on a separate slide with directions specific to that challenge. Challenges in this set include: Which One Doesn't Belong? What's the Question Would You Rather...? and Open Puzzles IF YOU LOVE THESE.... For more 2 week math sets OR for the entire set please visit my store at https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Miss-U And, for Creativity/ELA/Critical Thinking da

This purchase includes 10 daily math challenges, directions, rationale, and an answer key. Each challenge is presented on a separate slide with directions specific to that challenge. Challenges in this set include: •Concept Attainment •Always, Sometimes, or Never True •Two Truths and a Lie •Fraction Design Challenge IF YOU LOVE THESE.... For more 2 week math sets OR for the entire set please visit my store at https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Miss-U And, for Creativity/ELA/Cri

This purchase includes 10 daily Creativity/ELA/Critical Thinking challenges, directions, rationale, and an answer key. Each challenge is presented on a separate slide with directions specific to that challenge. Challenges in this set include: What could the question be? Concept Attainment ReDesign Abstract Connections Love these? For more, please check out my Daily Math Challenges, the other Creativity/ELA/Critical Thinking Challenge sets, or challenge bundles. https://www.teacherspayteac

I like to start the school year introducing my students to what being gifted can be all about... the good and the not so good qualities that often come with giftedness. Odd Boy Out, a picture book by Don Brown about the life of Albert Einstein, provides a great look at a character most of us already know. Before this book, I never knew much about Albert's childhood. But after reading it, I felt that my students could really benefit from hearing about the struggles that even someone as brillia

This presentation includes 5 multiple choice word problems, with more than one correct answer, for students to solve in a whole group activity or in small group remediation. Each slide that follows the word problem includes the answer. In some cases an explanation is also provided. The common core standard addressed is NF.3. Interpret a fraction as division of the numerator by the denominator (a/b = a ÷ b). Solve word problems involving division of whole numbers leading to answers in the f

This purchase includes 10 daily Creativity/ELA/Critical Thinking challenges, directions, rationale, and an answer key. Each challenge is presented on a separate slide with directions specific to that challenge. Challenges in this set include: Which One Doesn't Belong? Brain Strain Abstract Connections Other Brain Teasers Love these? For more, please check out my Daily Math Challenges, the other Creativity/ELA/Critical Thinking Challenge sets, or challenge bundles. https://www.teacherspayt