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Technology Assignment:

1) @http://www.eric.ed.gov/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=EJ810580 In Their Voices: Helping Artistically Gifted and Talented Students Succeed Academically

2) This article is about artistic students and those with spatial intelligence. These students are now in art college and were interviewed and asked what teachers could have done to help them learn and engage better in school. Their answers were profound because these are strategies that we may overlook because it may appear too boring or not helpful to our students.

Some assessment tools I can use for my mathematics students who are artistically gifted:
 * Diagnostic Planning/Assessment
 * Write or draw a story that can represent this mathematical equation or expression. This can show me what students understand with their best skills.
 * Give about 10 minutes (time is what they really need) about some things you find that you are good at, and things you find difficult from the last chapter. Gifted students asked teachers not to assume anything just because they can perform something well.
 * Give the students a calendar or schedule of what the students will be doing. This will help student prepare themselves visually. Artistically gifted students are better memorizing with color and boxes.
 * Assessment Strategies
 * Formative Assessment: For checking for understanding, do not check by calling on gifted students. Do not call on them when they seem like they are bored or not engaged. Students who are gifted in spatial and art are not good when they are called on on the spot. Artistically gifted students need time.
 * Formative Assessment: Allow students to write on white board so that they can showcase their work. This is more kinesthetic and outside of the normal note taking.
 * Summative Assessment: Create a 3D or a sculpture that can aid in understand 3D geometry or real life situation using the math problem. You can create a 3D shape or you can act it out.
 * Summative Assessment: Draw pictures for word problems to help students understand the problem if content literacy is difficult for the students.

Students who are artistically gifted have incredible talent, but many of them lack guidance to achieve in a classroom. Many students actually asked teachers to encourage them because a lot of teachers see artistically gifted students as slow and lazy. In fact, they are deep thinkers and take them awhile to see a big picture. They are able to visualize a mathematical situation when they close their eyes in imagine the situation in 2 or 3D. Some students are 2D artists, where others are able to draw and paint 3D in a 2D form. Some students can't draw, but are still artistically gifted by creating great sculpture or ceramics. Artistically gifted students come with different talents. These assessments will help students be well guided for academic achievement.