Short description: How can teachers provide writing instruction that challenges gifted learners while fostering risk-taking, encouraging improvement, and cultivating confidence? This session addresses classroom writing strategies and environments that promote self-efficacy, which is critical to student performance. This session shares writing models, metacognitive practices, growth-oriented feedback, and defensible assessment tools that have been successfully implemented in a middle school GT classroom.
Learning Outcomes: Participants will:
Learn ways to help gifted students set higher goals to improve their writing
Understand the role of appropriate feedback to promote writing growth