Hi there!
I enjoyed reading your blog post. I am fairly new to teaching but my experience working with gifted students has been very similar to what you have described. Particularly, the presence of anxiety and perfectionism. Sometimes if something was not perfect for my students they were prone to throw away their work and start over, creating more work for themselves to do at home to catch up for the lost time.
Additionally, I found that since my gifted students finished tasks sooner, they were often off-task and distracting to others, unless the activity was of interest to them. I agree with what you said about exploring passions. Gifted students may benefit from investigating their own wonderings and presenting their learning in whatever way they would like. I have found that honouring student voice and choice through inquiry projects is the best way to stimulate authentic and engaging learning experiences. If I were to do a classwide inquiry project, gifted students may be participating in inquiries that are free while the rest of the class participate in an inquiry that is guided or controlled.
Hi Sabrina! I enjoyed reading your post. I love the link you included to view different websites through the lens of the different kinds of colour blindness. I played around trying different URLs and types of colour blindness. My favourite was seeing how the GOOGLE letters changed. Your learning resource sounds really cool. I like how you have included a range of resources like videos, articles and textbooks, as well as a range of online communication tools, such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Messenger. By providing alternatives for auditory and visual information, and customizing the display of info your resource provides multiple means of representation (UDL) to support the “WHAT” of learning.
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