University Promotional Videos For Instructional Design

University Promotional Videos For Instructional Design

University Promotional Videos For Instructional Design

Sometimes the hardest students to teach are the brightest. Gifted learners love challenge and sometimes that poses challenges for their teachers. Here are few strategies that teachers can use when teaching and assessing gifted children. These strategies focus around project-based learning, problem-based learning, performance-based learning, scenario learning and service learning (Ellis, 2009).

Project-based Learning

Project-based learning occurs when students take a concept they learned and apply it to a project that shows their understanding of what was taught (Ellis, 2009). Projects such as these can “provide rich substance for monitoring individual students’ growth, assessing a group’s progress, or satisfying accountability requirements” (Helm, 2004).

Project-based learning engages gifted learners. It can take a basic classroom assignment to a whole other level. For example, a lot of teachers use "Gallon Guy" to help students visualize how many quarts, pints, cups, and ounces are in a gallon. The body of Gallon Guy represents the gallon. Its arms and legs symbolize the four quarts in a gallon. The two “hands” on each arm and the two “feet” on each leg correspond to the two pints in each quart. The model goes on with fingers and toes that stand for cups and the eight warts on each appendage represent ounces.