Tidbit # 17-Following Their Lead
What’s Next? In working with gifted learners, I have learned that one of the best things that we can do to support them is to follow their lead. If you are listening to them and following their lead, you will never be led astray. How does this look in the classroom? Obviously, we can not […]
Tidbit # 11-Where are we going?
I’ve been turning around a few ideas these past months about college prep, test prep, high school classes, middle school requirements — “necessary” skills and knowledge and the energetic push to guide our children as best we can (while we can) to be successful, happy, productive individuals. Or at least, happy … or at least, […]
Tidbit # 6-Tuning in to acknowledge the vagaries of minds
When deep thinking and an impatient urgency to fully understand a concept and all of its applications are a student’s modus operandi, dialing back to master “the basics” and being tasked with biting off small bits until being permitted to delve wider and deeper can not only be frustrating; it can be downright demotivating! What’s […]
Tidbit # 7 Hobbies
Is it possible to have a hobby you’re not serious about? I mean, can you actually casually do something and somehow resist the urge to try to be the best at it? Is there even such a thing as a “hobby” or are all hobbies really just another serious interest that you’ve decided you don’t […]
Tidbit # 8-How to Rest
A lot of people have written on this topic over the past 5-10 years, in particular. Major studies have been completed. The Harvard Business Review has just published an article about listening to your body and learning to relax, say no, the benefits of yoga — you know the rest. Let me start off by […]
Tidbit # 16-Highly-Qualified Faculty
We are proud to have such highly qualified faculty members at Scholars Academy for the Gifted. Our team of educators possesses teaching licensure, academically gifted licensure, reading specialist licensure, and National Board licensure. Additionally, many of our faculty hold advanced and terminal degrees from top-ranked institutions and have been awarded recognition in the field of […]
Tidbit # 15-Strengths-Based Private Education at Scholars Academy
A strengths-based private education, at Scholars Academy, is a type of educational program that focuses on the individual’s unique talents and skills, rather than their weaknesses. While public schools have traditionally used an academic system focused on identifying students’ weaknesses, a private school with a strengths-based approach is designed to help students reach their full […]
Tidbit # 14-A Major Issue In Education Today
A Major Issue In Education Today Too many students fail to reach their potential because they did not receive appropriately challenging curriculum and services. The National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) reports that 73% of teachers agreed that, “Too often the brightest students are bored and under-challenged in school. – we’re not giving them a […]
Tidbit # 13-Innovating creative pedagogical solutions…
An Online School Like No Other: Innovating creative pedagogical solutions to support shared goals for gifted and twice-exceptional K-12 learners across the world Laura Sawyer Lowder Pfeiffer University & Scholars Academy for the Gifted & Artistically Elite United States laura.lowder@pfeiffer.edu Hannah Hill Park Scholars Academy for the Gifted & Artistically Elite United States Hannah.Park.SA@gmail.com Abstract: […]
TIDBIT # 12- AUTONOMY IN THE CLASSROOM
Kids go through various stages of increasing autonomy as they age. However, numerous studies have found that the stage that begins around 6th grade and continues through the teen years is unique. Unfortunately, this is what gives ‘the rebellious teenager’ an infamous bad rep. Home and street behavior are fertile ground for the flexing of […]