{"id":64666,"date":"2018-09-22T12:43:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T16:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=64666"},"modified":"2018-09-22T12:43:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T16:43:36","slug":"three-places-to-begin-differentiating-for-gifted-kids-byrd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/09\/22\/three-places-to-begin-differentiating-for-gifted-kids-byrd\/","title":{"rendered":"Three places to begin differentiating for gifted kids [Byrd]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where Do I Even Start? <\/strong><\/a>— from byrdseed.com by Ian Byrd
\nThree places to begin differentiating for gifted kids<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n

I get lots of questions from overwhelmed folks who have suddenly landed in a new job in gifted ed and have had little training (heck, sounds a lot like me on my first day!).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere do I even start!?\u201d is a very common cry. Here are three places to begin differentiating for gifted kids.<\/p>\n

1. Pre-Assess
\n<\/strong>Pre-assessment is key! Without it, you\u2019re setting out on a journey with no map and no compass. You have to know where your students are at before you differentiate.<\/p>\n

2. Accelerate
\n<\/strong>Once you see where your students are at, the simplest way to differentiate is just to go faster! Acceleration can happen at many levels…<\/p>\n

3. Give Complex Work, Not Merely Difficult Work
\n<\/strong>Many of you have attended my full-day workshop on the difference between difficulty and complexity. I think this difference is key for planning quality differentiated tasks that aren\u2019t just more work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where Do I Even Start? — from byrdseed.com by Ian Byrd Three places to begin differentiating for gifted kids Excerpts: I get lots of questions from overwhelmed folks who have suddenly landed in a new job in gifted ed and have had little training (heck, sounds a lot like me on my first day!). \u201cWhere […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,373,46,173,66,89,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessment","category-homeschoolinghomeschoolers","category-k-12-related","category-pedagogy","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64669,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64666\/revisions\/64669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}