1. WHAT GIFTED KIDS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT
INTEREST
CHALLENGE
CHOICE &
ENJOYMENT
AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
BRIAN HOUSAND - KATIE BLANCHARD - LIZ FOGARTY
EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY

2. HANDOUTS!
AVAILABLE AT!
bit.ly/ncagt2014

9. INTEREST
CHALLENGE
CHOICE
ENJOYMENT

10. The biggest mistake of past
centuries in teaching has been to
treat all children as if they were
variants of the same individual
and thus to feel justified in
teaching them all the same
subjects in the same way.
- Howard Gardner

13. an instructional trilogy
Real World Problems
Rigor
Technology Integration

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8
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In Te Ra C Ti O N
Indium
Tellurium
Radium
Carbon
Titanium
Oxygen
Nitrogen
EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY / PITT COUNTY SCHOOLS
AIG CAMP 2014

17. RESEARCH QUESTION ONE:
Do gifted students’ perceptions of
their educational settings differ?
REGULAR CLASS!
AIG CLASSROOM!
AIG CAMP CLASS

18. RESEARCH QUESTION TWO:
Do gifted students’ perceptions of
INTEREST!
CHALLENGE!
CHOICE!
ENJOYMENT
in three educational settings differ?

19.
Year
Number of Participants
2011
2012
2013
!
65
63
60

21. My Class Activities
• Thirty-­‐One
questions
!
• Five
point
Likert
Scale
!
• Addresses
interest,
challenge,
choice,
and
enjoyment
!
• Students
self-­‐report
on
a
series
of
questions
in
regards
to
each
of
three
educational
settings
(regular
classroom,
AIG
classroom,
camp
classroom)
!

22. PROCEDURES
• Students
registered
for
and
attended
camp.
!
• Throughout
the
week
at
camp,
study
buddies
interviewed
their
camper
using
the
My
Class
Activities
survey
for
each
of
three
educational
settings
(regular
classroom,
gifted
classroom,
camp
classroom).
!
• Survey
results
were
totaled
and
analyzed.

23. REGULAR VS. AIG VS. CAMP

24. INTEREST

25. CHALLENGE

26. CHOICE

27. ENJOYMENT

28. CONCLUSIONS
• Students
had
different
experiences
across
their
three
educational
settings.
!
• The
regular
classroom’s
mean
score
was
the
lowest
of
the
three
educational
settings,
suggesting
that
the
regular
classroom
provides
the
least
amount
of
student
engagement.
!
• There
were
different
levels
of
interest,
challenge,
choice,
and
enjoyment
across
the
three
classroom
settings.

29. INTEREST

33. CHALLENGE

36. egifted.org

37. ocw.mit.edu

38. ocwconsortium.org

39. coursera.org

40. iTunes U

41. code.org/learn

42. CHOICE

45. Long Term,
Never Ending
Projects

46. Long Term, Never Ending Projects
•
•
•
•
Writing a Novel
• Creating a notebook
of poetry
Conducting a Survey
• Reading
Making a webpage
Designing a Science • Creating an alphabet
book on a topic
Experiment

50. ENJOYMENT

51. Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi

52. Ch
w
Flo
a
l
ne
n
Apathy

53. diy.org

61. INTEREST
CHALLENGE
CHOICE
ENJOYMENT

63. HANDOUTS!
AVAILABLE AT!
bit.ly/ncagt2014