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From: Susan Lynn <>
Subject: Re: teaching a foreign language to the gifted learner
The key is cultivating a growth mindset so that the advanced learners don’t think they are done just because they have completed what you have asked them to do. There is always more language and culture to learn! They have got to push themselves to use the language or they will sit back and allow themselves to coast because you are too busy working with the struggling students. Use differentiated strategies with alternative (more challenging) readings and audio samples for them to try. I set up a list of what are called Anchor Activities so that any student who finishes quickly will have a list of pre-approved language games, activities, videos, websites, etc. Find out what your students are interested in outside of school (music, sports, fashion, dinosaurs, horses, airplanes, whatever) and help them find resources on the web in the TL. Let them do a passion project in their free time. Set them up with penpals.
For assignments try choice boards, like a tic-tac-toe board or maybe 4 across with various activities that offer a choice of methods of showing what students have learned. Advanced does not have to mean more work. The most challenging activities on this example are actually the least about of time consuming work, but are the most pressure to perform.
These are just some of the things I tried with my advanced learners while working on my Master’s project on the same topic. I did not do it all at once or all the time! I hope this helps :)
Susan Lynn
Liberty North High School
Liberty,MO