elementary gifted
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The Benefits of Google Suite in the Gifted Classroom
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🎯 John Hattie’s Visible Learning Research: What It Means for Gifted Students in Grades 3–5
🕵️ Self-Assessment is a powerful part of the Pattern Detective Thinking Lab because it helps gifted learners reflect on their own growth. Instead of focusing only on getting the correct answer, students evaluate how well they identified patterns, explained their reasoning, created original patterns, and taught their thinking to others. By setting goals and recognizing…
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🕵️ Pattern Detectives: Building the Thinking Skills Gifted Learners Need
🕵️ Pattern Detectives transforms gifted readiness into an exciting mystery-solving adventure! Designed for K–2 students, this engaging #smithingifted Thinking Lab helps children develop pattern recognition, logical reasoning, and critical thinking through hands-on challenges instead of traditional test prep. Students become detectives as they uncover hidden rules, predict what comes next, create their own patterns, and…
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Why I Love Teaching the Hero’s Journey in Gifted Education
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Designing for Depth: Using Big Ideas to Build Complex, Challenging Curriculum
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Using Google My Maps in the Gifted Classroom: Mapping The Global Innovation Lab
The Global Innovation Lab is growing! 🌎🚀 In this post, I share how Google My Maps is helping us connect classrooms around the world so students can collaborate on real-world challenges like water conservation. If you want your students to think bigger, create meaningful solutions, and learn alongside students from other communities and countries, I…
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Welcome to #smithingifted: Where Gifted Learners Think Bigger, Create More, and Lead the Way
#smithingifted is a resource space for gifted teachers who want more than basic enrichment. Created by gifted educator Beth Smith, #smithingifted focuses on rigorous, creative, and ready-to-use resources for gifted and high-ability learners, especially in STEM, robotics, coding, design thinking, student choice, and real-world problem solving. From classroom projects to innovation challenges, these resources are…
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Adding Cricut to the Gifted Classroom: Where Creativity Meets Innovation
This blog shares why Cricut is being added to the #smithingifted curriculum as more than just a craft tool. In the gifted classroom, Cricut can support creativity, design thinking, entrepreneurship, STEM, problem solving, and student voice. Although I have not used it with students yet, I am excited to introduce it as a way for…