To cater to the needs of learners who are gifted, a teacher should-

To cater to the needs of learners who are gifted, a teacher should- Correct Answer Give moderate to higher order thinking tasks.

Gifted students: Gifted students are those who display evidence of high-performance capabilities, in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic, or leadership quality, or specific academic subjects, in comparison to others of the same age.

Key Points

• Needs of the learners catered when a teacher should give moderate to higher-order thinking tasks as gifted learners are capable of high-performance abilities in areas such as general intellectual ability, specific academic aptitude, leadership quality, etc

Important Points  Characteristics of gifted learners are-

• Finds pleasure in intellectual activities.
• Likes to create, invent, investigate, and conceptualize.
• Learns easily and readily.
• Displays great intellectual curiosity and inquisitiveness.
• Explores wide-ranging and special interests often in great depth.
• Uses vocabulary which is superior in both quantity and quality.
• Demonstrates a richness of imagery in informal language and brainstorming
• They are mostly self-motivated, they don't need much motivation from external sources.
• Displays intellectual and physical restlessness. Once encouraged is seldom a passive learner.
• Memorises easily and retrieves from memory easily and quickly.
• Learns basic skills better, more quickly, and with less practice.
• Constructs and handles higher levels of abstractions.
• Demonstrates an ability to cope with more than one idea at a time.  

Hint

•  Instructions-based guidelines never catch the needs of the students, so this is an irrelevant option for this question.
• Assessment should be based on the capabilities of the individuals, a standardized method of assessment is not a perfect method to assess students.
• Strict curriculum makes rigidity in the environment of the school, the students will not be able to perform best in rigid environment,