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Gifted and Talented Teacher Toolkit http://www.texaspsp.org/toolkit/GT_Teacher_Toolkit.html

Summarize how you address the needs of the gifted and talent student in your classroom based on the any of the following:

1. While some contend that all students are capable of each of the processes in Bloom’s taxonomy, educators often advocate that for gifted and talented students, more time and greater attention should be spent at the higher levels (thus inverting the triangle as seen in the toolkit).
2. J. Bruner believes “that learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge. The learner selects and transforms information, constructs hypotheses, and makes decisions, relying on a cognitive structure to do so. The instructor should try and encourage students to discover principles by themselves. The instructor and student should engage in an active dialog (i.e., socratic learning). The task of the instructor is to translate information to be learned into a format appropriate to the learner’s current state of understanding. Curriculum should be organized in a spiral manner so that the student continually builds upon what they have already learned.”