Please note: The accent over the é in Gagné’s surname in any of your in-text citations and reference lists.
Title page: Please include a title page at the front of your assignment that includes your name, student Id, course code/title, method area, grade of student/s case, and tutorial day/time.
Case Study: Place this after the title page. Choose an authentic case study from your course readings or from readings of your choice or from your own experiences and amend it according to one of your method areas into a one page overview. Or you can write a one page case overview of a student that you already know, but use pseudonyms. The overview should include a description of the context, background, and needs of the gifted student or students in your case study, the grade of the student, domain of giftedness, and any other relevant information. Link these with the planning below.
Planning provisions: Use the Model of Dynamic Differentiation (MoDD) to identify teaching strategies for intellectually gifted students to support talent development generally and to plan learning activities for the student in your chosen case specifically. In your report, choose one method, then a content topic/theme within the method, and address the following questions from the first four phases of the MoDD. Use the following as headings in your assignment:
- a) Assessing Learning:How could you assess the student to identify her/his strengths, interests, and learning needs in your method area generally? Describe two specific assessment tasks for the student or students in your case study. How are these assessment tasks relevant to your method area specifically and the individual student’s learning needs?
- b) Enriching Learning:How could you use enrichment to support the gifted student’s talent development generally? For example, using any of the models or frameworks or strategies, such as William’s model, SOLO, or curriculum compaction or other teaching strategies. What two or three learning activities would you use in your method area specifically to support the case student’s individual needs and justify your choices?
- c) Scaffolding Learning:What teaching, grouping, or scaffolding strategies could support the gifted student’s learning generally and explain why? What two strategies could be implemented in your method area specifically to support your case student and how could they be implemented?
- d) Self-regulating Learning:Generally, how could you teach the gifted student to be an autonomous learner? What two strategies would you use to support autonomous learning for your case student and how could you implement them?
Response format: Responses will be in report form with graphics/tables included. Appendices are optional, but might include resources to support the report’s content or lesson plan overviews that might be useful for your teaching experience in future. Whole lesson plans are not expected and appendices do not count towards the word count.
Structure: Ensure there is an introduction, clear headings throughout the report, and a conclusion. Reference the relevant research literature, course readings, and texts and wider reading.
