BHS ASL Instructional Guide
Canyons School District
Instructional Supports Department
Advanced Learners
Dos and Don’ts for Supporting Advanced Learners
Additional Resources
Do
Variable Characteristics of Advanced Learners May Include:
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Pre-assess your students.
● Design learning tasks that develop students’ areas of strengths in addition to their areas of challenge.
● Enhanced Verbal Ability
● Plan for differentiation. Consider pre-assessments, extension activities, choice boards, and compacting the curriculum.
● High Vocabulary
● Perseverating on Ideas; Excessive Worrying
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Emphasize DOK 3 & 4 level tasks.
● Highly Perceptive
● Provide opportunities for inquiry and application of learning that center on student voice and choice.
● Unusual Capacity for Informational Processing
● Provide enrichment activities that examine concepts in deeper and more complex ways.
● Ability to Make
Connections Among Concepts, Events, or Disciplines.
● Model and encourage creativity, critical thinking, and metacognition.
● Easily Bored Without A Clear Purpose for Learning ● Focus on Efficiency and Accuracy Over Compliance ● High Curiosity in Areas of Interest
● Promote positive social interactions by assigning clear roles for group work and keeping learning activities open-ended.
● Vary between heterogeneous and homogeneous grouping structures.
● Support regular self-reflection and goal-setting.
● Fast and Sustained Memory Retention
● Incorporate interdisciplinary activities and connections between concepts.
● Sense of Justice
● Strong Imagination
● Provide appropriately-leveled text based on Lexile as well as qualitative text complexity.
● Divergent Thinking
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