Short Description: Active engagement enhances student enthusiasm for tasks and their performance. Do some gifted students sit back and others engage? Do some have a hard time staying focused or have performance anxiety? Active engagement may be our best response. Strategies to optimize learning for gifted learners and provide equity and access are provided.
Learning Outcomes: Participants will:
Identify the ways in which the learning process is affected by academic engagement
Evaluate the effects of active engagement on apathetic, discouraged, or underachieving gifted learners
Utilize active engagement strategies that increase gifted learners' enthusiasm and motivation, and involve them in finding ways to calm themselves when anger, frustration, stress, and anxiety build