COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT

"Rising to Shine" Affective Education for Gifted (http://risingtoshinegiftedaffectiveed.weebly.com/) 

 

Description: This Weebly website is designed to be the ultimate resource tool-box for research-based strategies, examples, lesson plans, and activities for affective education/curriculum.  Part of my Journal Article about unhealthy perfectionism with the research on affective curriculum inspired my strategies!  Of course, I chose to bring awareness to the overexcitabilities (OEs) and provide resources for every OE: Psychomotor, Sensual, Intellectual, Imaginational, and Emotional.  Each OE listed has research-based strategies and other resources for teachers of all classrooms.  I also chose to focus on the Growth Mindset by researcher Carol Dweck from Stanford University.  The growth mindset also relates to other theories of intelligence and Renzulli's Three-Ring Conception of Giftedness as shared in the Weebly.  Specific strategies for teaching the gifted students growth mindset are shared (with attention to underachievement and perfectionism in mind) like using self-assessment and self-reflection along with integrating bibliotherapy.  Moreover, bibliotherapy has its own page on the Weebly.  Multiple blogs and lesson plans are shared on the page for teachers.  I also included a personal list of books with physical differences and disabilities to help build empathy through the guided reading model of bibliotherapy.  Moving along, the Creative Problem Solving Model (CPS) with Service-Based Learning is also recommended as a part of affective education as it also integrates bibliotherapy and all the other subject areas while also building empathy and socialization skills.  Additional resources to develop advocacy, especially for the unique social and emotional needs of gifted students are shared.

http://risingtoshinegiftedaffectiveed.weebly.com/