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Gifted and Talented

Completed by 542 learners
Ages 8-12
Live Group Class
This ongoing class supports gifted learners with projects to enhance logic and reasoning skills, creative thinking, and teamwork!
Average rating:
4.6
Number of reviews:
(854 reviews)

Live video meetings
1x per week
3-12 learners per class
55 min

What's included

1 live meeting
55 mins in-class hours per week
Homework
1 hour per week. Optional homework may include interest-driven research and projects to present in class, fun logic and critical thinking puzzles. or challenges.

Class Experience

Gifted learners need to be challenged, but traditional schoolwork doesn't always challenge them or fit their unique development. Gifted students have special needs as learners.  Sometimes they develop specific passions that their peers don't relate to or understand. Often they find regular academic work boring, or too easy.  They can be so used to academic work being “easy”
that they don’t learn how to put real effort forward. This ongoing class will challenge students with fun activities like logic puzzles, team challenges, creative exercises, and critical thinking games.   
The ongoing format means learners can develop relationships with an intellectual peer group, through regular contact, discussion, and participation. 
New content every week can be tailored to returning students and their interests and abilities.  Feel free to message the teacher with specific requests, interest areas or concerns. 
2E students, those that are gifted AND have a learning disability,  are welcome and can be accommodated.  
Please adhere to the age limits unless you consult with the teacher. While younger gifted students can often work above grade level in an average class, this is a class of gifted and in some cases highly gifted students. The pace, depth, and content are suited to these students, and younger children, even younger highly gifted students, may be over-challenged by any of those factors.   

Not sure if your child is gifted? 
https://mcgt.net/checklist-is-your-child-gifted
Studies show that parents are accurate in correctly identifying their children as gifted, as such, gifted testing is not required to participate in class. 

Some of the tools we will use in this class include:
-Cryptograms
- Puzzles like Rebus and Masyu
- Academic Themed Escape Rooms
- Logic grids 
- Scavenger hunts 
- Team challenges
- In-depth discussions
- Student interest-driven research and projects

Other Details

External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.

Meet the teacher

Joined January, 2019
4.6
854reviews
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Teacher expertise and credentials
By profession, I am an Ecology Instructor at a local College Environmental Education Center. I have 15 years of experience teaching Math, Science, and History, and multi-disciplinary classes at the elementary, middle, and high school level.  I am also a homeschool mom of 3 and co-op director. I love teaching through hands-on activities including experiments, games, and real-world adventures. Science and math classes are my current specialties, but I also love to teach adulting skills, and fun game-based or craft-based multidisciplinary classes.  
I am a Google Certified Educator and a certified Vex Robotics Instructor and I have been designing escape rooms for decades!   

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