Special Education

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Gifted Education - A Resource Guide for Teachers

Products

Student products refer to the things they develop to show their learning. Developing products from investigations provides students with an opportunity to use their learning style strengths and personal preferences to represent their knowledge.

Points to consider... Before the work begins, engage students in developing criteria for assessing the development of the product and evaluating it upon completion. Include student learing logs as part of the assessment process. Use products in the development of student portfolios.

Representing Knowledge

Examples of products that draw upon a variety of styles or intelligences are: models, diagrams, letters, videos, debates, displays, dramatizations, multimedia presentations, concept maps, stories, sculptures, paintings, songs, scripts, classification systems, advertisements and cookbooks.

Reaching the Audience

Students take more care in developing their products when they are intended for audiences beyond the classroom. Products for real audiences include:

• letters to the editor and articles in the local newspaper,
• student works published in children's literary magazines,
• displays in public places -- malls, banks, shop windows, parks,
• presentations to appropriate local groups. For example: city council, historical society, naturalists society,
• artistic performances for the public or senior citizens,
• story telling in a library or bookstore,
• creation of oral history tapes for a library,
• invention convention for other students,
• mall display of outcomes from ecological studies,
• contribution of math puzzles to children's magazines,
• televised student panel discussion of a community problem,
• student business plans reviewed by business community, and
• dramatization of an issue for the community

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