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Gifted Students:
Motivational Ideas

The Future Belongs to the LearnersNOTThe Learned

By Alan Haskvitz, teacher

National Teachers Hall of Fame

USA Today All American Educator, Tech Magazine Leaders Award

Readers Digest Hero in Education, Leavey Economics Award.

NCSS Middle Level Teacher of the Year, National Exemplary Program

Learning Magazine Professional Best American Teacher Award

Cherry International Great Teacher Award; Three Golden Bells

George Washington Freedom Foundation Award, McAuliffe Award

State/National Awards in economics, technology, ecology, agriculture, economics, art, service learning, journalism, English, history, photography, creative writing, civics, engineering, coaching

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

Featured in several textbooks, and national television, and books

Never been observed by District, State or Federal official

Some of My articles are here

https://carfamily.wordpress.com/category/teaching//Gifted educationhttp://www.teachers.net/gazette/AUG08/haskvitz/[email protected]

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.

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 students haven't had to work very hard to do well, but that changes 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.

Intrinsic Rewards

Extrinsic Rewards result in a Whats 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.

Ideas that work

Use Doubt.

Short term. What is the learning involved?
Cover material in more depth
Do less. Use Tom Sawyer Approach
Use a variety of methods
Appeal to their negative nature
Get them on your side.

Avoid Dead End Projects

Where is this assignment leading

Application of Learning

Process

Motivation can be related to methods

-Alter the curriculum, but dont change the objective

-Accept different proofs of knowledge

-You need to realize that good words can be bad

-Fear of success

-Always value talking to student and asking opinions

Want to Get Student's Attention in a Hurry?

Today we are going to learn how to do aRESUME'Hand students form with room for name, address, contact numbers.Next ask them to write education they have.Next add experience, achievements, etc.That is what you have accomplished to date.Remember that your are investing in yourself

A Common Trait

Gifted students, in most cases are good test takers, and 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.

SoApply LearningSolve ProblemsDo SomethingPush Outside Comfort Zones

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?

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.

Make it Meaningful

Teach 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

Competition>Turn it to your advantage

>Importance of team work

>Help others be better

>Avoid The BestIt Teaches Avoidance

Learn by Doing

Set Baselines

Prove that you know this

How would you teach this to others

Use variety of intelligences/methods

CalendarDont underestimate value of large calendar andTimeline(what they learned)

Learning Timeline

Today I learned

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

Create own learning aids

1. Use memory cards2. Use Cornell note taking3. Invent secret notetaking system4. Write own textbookhttp://www.bookemon.com/read-book/198980And StoryBird.com

Getting Them Organized

Battle Plan for the Day

Three Transfers

Linking

Use Linking

Make connections across curriculum

Ongoing

Large sheet of paper

Daily upgrades

Reflections

Teachers should be an example
Publish, Research, be Active

It is motivating for students to be proud of their teacher

Dont

Don't put up student examples

Dont isolate students

Dont compare their work

Dont judge creativity

Quotes

Any 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

High Interest Sites

https://www.awesomestories.com/

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.

Just In
Awesome Stories is Offering 30 Free Account

This site that allows students to publish work, correlates well with Common Core, and offers exciting and motivating stories. It is well worth a click or two. A great site for flipping, sponge activities and to develop interests.https://www.awesomestories.com/Signup/Membership/25

Example of Awesome Stories

The Little Boy Who Can Change the Weather: El Nio - Preface

You are a drop of rainwater and were born in a nimbus cloud that also produced your brothers and sisters. People living on earth call all of you precipitation. We'll just call you Drippy.

Now it isn't easy being a raindrop. When you are small, about 1 millimeter (the size of a pencil point), you are spherical and have a shape like a flattened bun. You grow by running into other drops until you reach about 4.5 millimeter and start to fall turning you into a little parachute with a tube of water around your base. As you fall you break up into smaller drops as the wind pressure pushes against you until you are flattened. Some of your brothers and sisters are larger because they have collided with others, but you are just glad to be done with the wild journey that started when you were born from water vapor and a little nuclei such as a piece of salt that has evaporated from the sea water or a bit of dust.

El Nino continued

Since seventy-one percent of the Earth's surface is ocean the chances are, Drippy, you are going to fall into an ocean. Since the largest is the Pacific the odds are that that ocean is going to be your landing place. Depending on the weather, your temperature is going to be between 32F and 80F. If it is below that temperature then you would be a snow flake. To give you an idea of what that temperature means, your bath is probably between 98F and a very hot 108F.

You probably want to know what is going to happen to you once you land in the ocean. Well, Drippy, you are fresh water and very precious. Only three percent of all the water on Earth can claim to be fresh water. You are still fresh water when you land on a calm ocean. If the ocean does not have any wind or waves you join with your fellow raindrops and create a fresh water layer on the ocean. However, most of the time the ocean has waves and wind and so you slowly mix with the ocean water and become saline or salt water that makes up 97 percent of the Earths water.

Recommended Reading

Environmental, Familial, and Personal Factors That Affect the Self-Actualization of Highly Gifted Adults: Case Studies
Doctoral Dissertation
Introduction and Literature Review, Deborah L. Ruf, Ph.D.

Number one way to reach gifted students:EMPOWER THEM

Characteristics 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. Dabrowskis Theory and Existential Depression in Gifted Children

Haskvitz's Student AccomplishmentsSelected 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.

None of these were in curriculum area taught

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.
Students 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.

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.

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

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)

Has wild, silly ideas

Discusses in detail; elaborates

1-2 repetitions for mastery

Differences Part 3

Bright Child

Completes assignments

Is receptive

Copies accurately

Enjoys school

Absorbs information

Technician

Good memorizer

Enjoys straight-forward,

Is alert

Gifted Child

Constructs abstractions

Initiates projects

Is intense

Creates a new design

Manipulates information

Inventor

Good guesser

Thrives on complexity

Is keenly observant

ReferencesHow 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 34Poor Teacher Training: End of Gifted Teachinghttp://www.teachers.net/gazette/AUG08/haskvitz/Making a Difference: Motivating GiftedStudents Who Are Not AchievingDel Siegle D. Betsy McCoachMotivating Gifted Studenhttp://www.davidsongifted.org/db/Articles_id_10648.aspxHelping Gifted Studenthttps://carfamily.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/how-to-help-the-gifted-student/

Preventing Cheating

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

ReWeaving
Education for the Gifted

--Blend the strands together by integrating--Re-examine product by asking the Five Whys--Evaluate Process, not Product--Consider classroom center for evaluation--Avoid dead ends by ReWeaving--Work rapidly, but return to weave new material--Motivates students through self-assessment

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

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

Have a sense of humor

Thanks for staying

When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.

Don't Leave Me with Him

Class dismissedYour attendance is appreciated

Alan [email protected]