Videos and Reflection Questions

Chapter 16

At 2:15, Dylan mentions how challenging it can be to light fires in students in a culture of high stakes testing. How will you balance the want to be an innovative creative teacher in the culture of stakes testing?
Dylan also discusses not grading gifted children during gifted enrichment opportunities. What do you think is the benefit to not grading children’s work?
Around 5:32, Dylan describes a project she introduced in which kids designed toys. If you had to link this activity to the common core standards, what standards would it address? Do you think that project based learning is possible within the confines of standards based teaching?

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Jake is a twice exceptional child. He credits his math abilities to his autism.

When Jake was a young child, he memorized the numbers in Pi. How can early childhood teachers meet both Jake’s social emotional needs and his advanced math skills at the same time?
What do you think that Jake was like in preschool?
Jake says that he remembers math and numbers but nothing else. What kinds of executive function adaptations would benefit Jake?