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Building Empathy Through Social-Emotional Learning In Advisory, Kaitlyn Dobyns
Building Empathy Through Social-Emotional Learning In Advisory, Kaitlyn Dobyns
Education: Student Scholarship & Creative Works
This research evaluates the importance of building empathy among middle school learners through social-emotional education. This paper includes a six-week curriculum that focuses on 30 minute advisory lessons, which work on building empathy skills in a diverse school community. Students are encouraged to write reflections about the process and competencies they learn in connection to how they affect the hallways of their school in hopes of seeing growth in empathetic relationships within their community.
Challenging Gifted Students In The General Education Classroom, Kelly Barnett
Challenging Gifted Students In The General Education Classroom, Kelly Barnett
Education: Student Scholarship & Creative Works
This Honors in Education research focuses on gifted instruction in the general education early childhood classroom. Research found that being challenged in the general education classroom (in addition to in the gifted classroom) is a vital aspect of students’ gifted education. In addition to research on the importance of gifted education, effective strategies and best practices for challenging these students were explored through teacher interviews. Common themes such as strategic grouping, differentiation, enriched curriculum, problem solving, and project-based learning emerged. These strategies were compiled and organized into a digital toolkit website. This digital toolkit can serve as a teacher resource …