Strategies for Student Success Within School
To help facilitate student success within the classroom, it is essential to nurture the student's strengths and interests, while simultaneously addressing the student's challenges. This dual-emphasis programming approach should be utilized when creating a comprehensive education plan for a twice-exceptional student.
Dual-Emphasis Programming:
Acceleration: Matching the pace of a student and/or a curriculum to appropriately align with students’ strengths, readiness, and needs in order to create adequate learning opportunities.
Content Extension: Extending the curriculum beyond the regular curriculum allowing the student to develop new ideas, skills, connections, concepts, and go more broadly and deeply into ideas already introduced; allowing the student to create a personal understanding. All of these various components of Content Extension must interact in order for learning to be meaningful.
Higher-Order Thinking Skills: Skills that challenge student thinking and problem-solving skills. Teachers often utilize the Socratic questioning method. Examples of higher-order thinking skills include:
Affective Guidance and Support: 2E Students need social and emotional support within a nurturing environment. Teachers can provide a nurturing environment by…
- Single-Subject Acceleration: providing higher than grade level curriculum by either moving the child into a higher grade lever or differentiating age-based classrooms.
Content Extension: Extending the curriculum beyond the regular curriculum allowing the student to develop new ideas, skills, connections, concepts, and go more broadly and deeply into ideas already introduced; allowing the student to create a personal understanding. All of these various components of Content Extension must interact in order for learning to be meaningful.
Higher-Order Thinking Skills: Skills that challenge student thinking and problem-solving skills. Teachers often utilize the Socratic questioning method. Examples of higher-order thinking skills include:
- Analytical Thinking Skills
- Critical Thinking Skills
- Executive Processes
- Creative Thinking Skills
- Creative Problem Solving
Affective Guidance and Support: 2E Students need social and emotional support within a nurturing environment. Teachers can provide a nurturing environment by…
- Valuing individual differences, multiple intelligences, and varied learning styles
- Valuing individual progress over product
- Giving students multiple access points to material
- Evaluating student work multiple ways
Social/Emotional Challenges For 2E Students
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Strategies To Help Address Social/Emotional Challenges:
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