Guiding Questions

The NAGC has a list of “guiding questions” to help put one into the correct mindset. NAGC Standards Applying the Standards Guiding Questions. Retrieved September 17, 2007, from National Association for Gifted Children

• How does a teacher's knowledge and understanding of content and his or her particular academic discipline facilitate differentiation?
  
• Describe five different ways in which a student might demonstrate proficiency thereby indicating a need for acceleration and/or differentiation.
  
• What are the dangers in failing to provide gifted learners with rigorous, challenging curriculum?
  
• How might the use of various flexible grouping strategies enable a teacher to equitably alter the pace of instruction?
  
• Review your school's acceleration policy. Does it provide written policies related to the following: grade skipping; subject acceleration; early entrance to kindergarten, middle school, high school, and college; dual enrollment; and Advanced Placement (AP) courses?
• What criteria would you use to select resources and materials for a gifted program?
• How might you purposefully collect information about gifted students' interests, learning styles, and readiness?