Successful Online Learning with Gifted Students: Designing Online and Blended Lessons for Gifted and Advanced Learners in Grades 5-8

by Vicki Phelps

Overview

This innovative, technology-based resource provides those who teach gifted and advanced learners in grades 5–8 with quality, research-based, online lessons, tools, and insights.

Throughout, you’ll find ready-to-implement virtual lessons, simulations, and learning modules. You’ll also learn how to create, differentiate, and modify existing lessons through an online platform. In addition, the book offers helpful strategies addressing online student accountability, etiquette, and collaboration, and shares useful tips for communicating with parents.

Whether you are looking to enrich learning within the classroom, provide students with extensions outside the classroom, or engage students in distance learning, this book will be invaluable in meeting the needs of your gifted and advanced learners.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781646322213
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/2021
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	8.25(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	10 - 13 Years

About the Author

Vicki Phelps, Ed.D. is an Assistant Professor of Education at Milligan University where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate level courses. She has been involved in gifted education for over 20 years, including collaboratively developing and opening a gifted magnet school, providing professional learning opportunities to schools seeking to improve best practice in gifted education and differentiation, and writing gifted curricula. Dr. Phelps is the recipient of the 2021 NAGC Book of the Year Award (with Emily Mofield) for their coauthored work, Collaboration, Coteaching, and Coaching in Gifted Education.

Table of Contents

List of Figures viii

List of Tables ix

List of Support Material xi

About the Author xii

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

1 Technology as a Driving Force in Learning 5

2 Online Collaboration and Interaction 24

3 Using Google Forms as Accountable and Engaging Learning Modules 36

4 Brackets of Learning: A Google Forms Simulation 48

5 Google Sites as a Long-Term Engagement Strategy 77

6 Continued Engagement and Enrichment Through Online and Blended Learning 99

7 Supporting Parents and Guardians as Collaborative Partners in Online Learning 115

Conclusion and Final Thoughts 121

References 122