Classroom & Differentiation Strategies
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Stop Giving Every Gifted Student the Same Assignment: A Better Way to Differentiate
Discover how the #smithingifted curriculum transforms differentiation by allowing gifted students to learn at their own pace through four levels of challenge: Explorer, Engineer, Innovator, and Visionary. Instead of giving every student the same assignment or making advanced learners wait, this approach promotes student choice, independence, creativity, and authentic problem-solving. Learn how self-paced learning, badge-based…
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Turning Ideas Into Reality: Using the Dremel 3D Printer to Solve Real-World Problems in the Gifted Classroom
By Beth Smith, M. Ed. | #smithingifted “Innovation begins when students realize they have the power to create something that has never existed before.” 🚀 One of the most exciting tools in our gifted classroom is our Dremel 3D Printer. While many people think of 3D printing as simply making fun toys or gadgets, my…
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Why My Gifted Classroom Looks Different—and Why That’s Exactly the Point
By Beth Smith, M. Ed. | #smithingifted Walk into my gifted classroom, and you might see students programming robots, designing solutions to real-world problems, creating podcasts, exploring Google Earth, or collaborating with classmates on hands-on STEM challenges. Sometimes people ask me: “Why do you do so many different things?” The answer is simple. Because gifted…
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#smithingifted tech tools
By Beth Smith, M. Ed. | #smithingifted Dash Robot meets Our Hometown One of my favorite ways to teach coding is by making it feel like a real-world mission. The Dash Robot “Our Hometown” Bot Mat does exactly that. Instead of having students simply drive Dash forward, backward, left, and right, this mat turns coding…