How to Document GT Services in Infinite Campus if you are a Teacher
Step by Step Instructions for documenting GT services for each student.
Examples of services that can be documented in Infinite Campus.
Simple Written GT Documentation Instructions
Activities for GT Students
Planning Strategies and Resources for Teachers
USE AI
Magic School AI
Google Gemini
Chat GPT
Kahoots - has a freeversion. It is an interactive website that lets you create games to engage your students in learning.
Socrative- has a free version. It is an interactive website that lets you engage students using technology.
Utilitze Independent Study
Independent Study Contract (google docs)
Independent Study Contract (download in Word)
Use Differentiation
GT Helpful Hints for Teachers ~ Classroom guide to implementing gifted teaching techniques
STEM Sites for teaching Gifted Students
Meeting the needs of Gifted Students in the Regular Classroom
A summary of differentiated instruction and how to use it for GT.
Six Strategies for Challenging Gifted Learners by Amy Azzam
Examples of instruction using tiered instruction differentiation:
Product Choice List (Literature Circle Products), but can be adapted to any content area
Alternatives to Traditional Homework
| The situation |
Instead of this homework |
Try this |
When and where |
| You introduced new material to us in class. |
Assigning a question set so we will remember the material. |
Ask us to think up a homework task that follows up on this class. What would our task look like? Why are we assigning it? |
Model this in class, then have us come up with the ideas. Use our best ideas as subsequent assignments. |
| You want us to read an article before a class discussion. |
Making us answer questions that prove we have read it. |
Ask us to write down two or three questions we have after reading it. |
We can text or email you the questions before discussing the article in class. |
| You want to see if we understand a key concept (e.g., literary irony; checks and balances in government; the turn of the seasons; mathematical functions). |
Making us complete a worksheet. |
As us to demonstrate the concept for the class in small groups, using any medium we choose (drama, art, writing, games). |
Not a final assessment but a quick activity in class, so we can review the concept together and you can tell if we understand. |
| You have demonstrated a mathematical procedure and you want us to see how it applies in various situations. |
Assigning us ten word problems that involve this procedure. |
As small groups to choose from your examples on word problem where this procedure applies in the real world, the solve it and present it to the class. |
In class, so you can coach us as we work through the problem and help clarify any confusions when we present. |
| You want us to memorize facts (e.g., dates in history, spelling or grammar; vocabulary; elements of the periodic table)s. |
Handing out a list that we will be tested on later. |
Ask each of us to create and share with the class a memorization trick (e.g., music, acronym, visual cue, gesture; cognate) that works for us with a least one item on this list. |
In class or outside school, by ourselves, or in small groups. |
| You want us to remember what you taught us last month. |
Assigning a review sheet at the end of a unit. |
Give us frequent short pop quizzes about earlier material. Go over the quiz with us right afterward, but don't count the grade. |
In class, so every few days you see and can address what we have forgotten. |
More on Differentiation
Serving Gifted Students in Regular Ed Classrooms
Differentiated Instruction: Resource Roundup
Differentiation at Different Points in the Lesson
Examples of Ways to Differentiate - Database (Multiple Grade Levels)
Gifted Education BLOGS
Contact me: Kathy Carver
This is my 32nd year in education. Business Education was my teaching field for 21 years where I taught Accounting, Principles of Teaching, Multimedia Publishing, Webpage Design, Introduction to Business, and an array of marketing courses. This is my eleventh year serving students in the Gifted and Talented program for Hopkins County Schools. I hold a Bachelor of Science Degree from Western Kentucky University, a Master of Arts in Education from Murray State University, and I obtained my Rank 1 through Indiana Wesleyan. My endorsements include gifted and talented, middle grades business, and marketing. I'm married with two grown children.
Other involvement includes
- member of Kentucky Association of Gifted Education
- member of National Education Association, Kentucky Education Association, and Hopkins County Education Association
- member of Noon Kiwanis Club
- serve as a liaison to both Hopkins County Central and Madisonville North Hopkins Key Club
- member of Hopkins County Fair Board
- director of Miss Preteen Hopkins County Fair pageant
- 2013 High School Teacher of the Year - Hopkins County
- 2021 Kentucky Association of Gifted Education Service and Advocacy Award
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