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WHAT GIFTED KIDS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT
I N T E R E S T CHALLENGE C H O I C E & ENJOYMENTAND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
BRIAN HOUSAND - KATIE BLANCHARD - LIZ FOGARTY EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY
HANDOUTS!AVAILABLE AT!
bit.ly/ncagt2014
INTEREST CHALLENGE
CHOICE ENJOYMENT
The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all children as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects in the same way.
- Howard Gardner
an instructional trilogy
Real World Problems Rigor
Technology Integration
49
In Indium
52
Te Tellurium
88
Ra Radium
6
C Carbon
22
Ti Titanium
8
O Oxygen
7
N Nitrogen
EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY / PITT COUNTY SCHOOLS
AIG CAMP 2014
RESEARCH QUESTION ONE:
Do gifted students’ perceptions of their educational settings differ?
REGULAR CLASS!AIG CLASSROOM!AIG CAMP CLASS
RESEARCH QUESTION TWO:
Do gifted students’ perceptions of
INTEREST!CHALLENGE!
CHOICE!ENJOYMENT
in three educational settings differ?
Year Number of Participants
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2011 65 2012 63 2013 60
My Class Activities• Thirty-‐One questions !
• Five point Likert Scale !
• Addresses interest, challenge, choice, and enjoyment
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• Students self-‐report on a series of questions in regards to each of three educational settings (regular classroom, AIG classroom, camp classroom)
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• Students registered for and attended camp. !
• Throughout the week at camp, study buddies interviewed their camper using the My Class Activities survey for each of three educational settings (regular classroom, gifted classroom, camp classroom).
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• Survey results were totaled and analyzed.
PROCEDURES
REGULAR VS. AIG VS. CAMP
INTEREST
CHALLENGE
CHOICE
ENJOYMENT
CONCLUSIONS• Students had different experiences across their
three educational settings. !
• The regular classroom’s mean score was the lowest of the three educational settings, suggesting that the regular classroom provides the least amount of student engagement.
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• There were different levels of interest, challenge, choice, and enjoyment across the three classroom settings.
INTEREST
CHALLENGE
egifted.org
ocw.mit.edu
ocwconsortium.org
coursera.org
iTunes U
code.org/learn
CHOICE
Long Term, Never Ending
Projects
Long Term, Never Ending Projects
• Writing a Novel • Conducting a Survey • Making a webpage • Designing a Science
Experiment
• Creating a notebook of poetry
• Reading • Creating an alphabet
book on a topic
ENJOYMENT
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Apathy
Flow C
hannel
diy.org
INTEREST CHALLENGE
CHOICE ENJOYMENT
HANDOUTS!AVAILABLE AT!
bit.ly/ncagt2014
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