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Neither I nor anyone else in my gifted program expressed any angst about the label. It's just a recognition of a simple reality. >whenever a kid is easily comp
by jlawson 5y ago
Neither I nor anyone else in my gifted program expressed any angst about the label. It's just a recognition of a simple reality.
>whenever a kid is easily completing all of his work so it’s just busy work to him, he should get harder work. Otherwise you’re wasting their time.
Agreed. The most efficient way to do this is not to have every teacher running multiple teaching levels within each class. It is to take all those kids who are completing the work early and getting bored, and putting them all on one teacher who can run a single lesson that matches their ability.
You're just asking for a gifted program that's done individually instead of in batches - same thing but infeasibly expensive.
- Jtsummers 5y agoWhat GP is describing sounds like impostor syndrome, it's not uncommon. When I worked in education we were specifically working with primarily gifted students (it wasn't, strictly, a gifted program but access to it was limited and pretty much only went to the top students around the state, which largely corresponded with students in the gifted category). We spent a good bit of time talking about impostor syndrome and how to identify it to try and get help to students in need. This isn't something that impacts every student, and most students won't come out and say that they feel this way, especially not to their peers. It's like depression or anxiety. People don't often come out and say, "I feel depressed and have constant negative thoughts and suffer from suicidal ideation." They keep it to themselves for fear of how they will be perceived if they admit they don't belong or feel that they don't belong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome