Share data and research that supports the need for differentiated instruction for gifted students.

Scenario: Your school does an excellent job of offering intervention programs and resources for struggling students. Teachers differentiate work for students who have not reached proficiency on state standards and, as a result, your non-proficient students have shown exceptional growth on state assessments. However, after examining the data, you notice a multi-year trend that suggests that proficient/gifted students show minimal growth over time.

In response to this trend, design a 10 slides presentation for a professional development session for your teachers that addresses the curriculum design, instruction, and assessment of gifted students.

Include the following in your presentation:

Define gifted education and gifted students.

Share data and research that supports the need for differentiated instruction for gifted students.

Share at least five different strategies of differentiated instruction that could be used to meet the needs of gifted students.

Design two learning activities that you could lead during the professional development session that would result in a better understanding of effective ways to teach and assess gifted students in a general education classroom.