Gifted and Talented Learners

A gifted/talented student is a child or youth who performs at or shows the potential for performing at a remarkably high level of accomplishment when compared to others of the same age, experience, or environment and who

• exhibits high performance capability in an intellectual, creative, or artistic area;
• possesses an unusual capacity for leadership; or excels in a specific academic field. (Texas Education Code 29.121)

For this assignment, please do the following:

Step 1: Read pages 16-22 and pages 52-59 (as identified by the PDF tool bar page numbers) in the Gifted and Talented  Assignment Guide. FOT 2B Gifted and Talented Assignment Guide.pdf 

Step 2: Imagine that you have a gifted and talented student in your class.  Find a sample lesson plan, this could be one that you submitted for a previous assignment, and modify it by adding a  Tier 1 and a Tier 2 Activity. 

Step 3: Submit this assignment as a Word document and highlight and label the Tier 1 and Tier 2 assignments that you have added.