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Challenges and Possibilities for Serving Gifted Learners in the Regular Classroom
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BIBLIOGRAPHYArticle 1 - Challenges and possibility for serving gifted learnersIn recent times the entire landscape of education has transformed. It is because oftechnology and change in needs and behaviour of people. There are some children who requiresdifferent level of knowledge as they are gifted. It is essential to find those children amongpopulation. There are certain belief and attitude about learning. The first is gifted students whohave different level of skills and abilities. Secondly, teacher is not responsible for providing allknowledge, students can learn from other source as well. According to these beliefs curriculum isdeveloped. Educator thinks that if curriculum is modified then gifted students will not be able toget high grades (VanTassel-Baska and Stambaugh, 2005.). Besides this, developing curriculumrequires a lot of understanding and knowledge. Apart from this, educators need to work withcooperation with each other. The curriculum development requires time for effective planning.Moreover, administration is not supporting them which is making it difficult to fulfil needs ofgifted students in regular classroom. But there is possibility of taking necessary steps for whichdiagnostic prescriptive assessment can be applied. It was developed by Julian Stanley in 1970,where students are grouped on basis of their needs. Article 2 – Differentiation in regular classroom is equivalent to gifted programs and issufficientStudents differ from each other in various ways such as interest, ability, etc. Also, theyrespond to things in different manner. The philosophy of differentiation state that needs of allstudent cannot be met in single curriculum. The needs of gifted children can be fulfilled by usingthis philosophy. Educator must foster talent of all students by identifying their interest. Aconcept based curriculum can be developed for gifted students. Along with this, every educatoris trained to guide gifted student in one year. In differentiate curriculum teacher focuses ondeveloping in-depth understanding of scope, ideas, etc. which is necessary for teachers ofelementary school (Hertberg-Davis, 2009). Therefore, many schools have developed curriculumthat helps students to continue challenge who are excelled in certain area. With this they growand learn new things. Further, it has been analysed that teacher in classroom does not includegifted students, because the individuals are considered as struggling learners. They believe that
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