Deb Douglas
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399 appearances
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first heard Sep 2018
last heard Sep 2018
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And our gifted kids are definitely outliers.
Our twice exceptional kids are probably two or three times outliers, and kids from underrepresented population.
populations of gifted students are as well, kids in rural areas or in in urban areas or kids who are
underground come come from poverty or come from families in which there is not a lot of support or understanding or access to the educational system.
And so more and more as we help our kids recognize that it's they are outliers.
It's okay to be outliers, that's who they are, but that might mean they need something different than the the general mass of age level or grade level s kids around them.
Well
Especially if we're talking about gifted kids getting an appropriately challenging education.
Yeah, the if everything always comes easily.
And if kids are primarily extrinsically motivated by the good grades and high test scores and praise from parents and teachers, they don't realize that that education can be exciting and challenging on its own.
And unfortunately for some gifted kids, the grade becomes the goal or the praise becomes the goal.
And therefore they will underachieve to assure that they can
Can get good grades, can get that one hundred percent correct.
rather than taking a risk and doing something that's challenging that will stretch them.
And sometimes for gifted kids they fail to develop those study and executive functioning skills that they need in order to
be successful at more challenging things simply because they haven't need needed to use those.
And for some students it winds up they don't ever reach that wall that they can't pass until then maybe they're even in college and they struggle there.
And of course, I won't go into detail on it, but we know there are things like imposter syndrome that many brilliant people have in which they believe
that they are an imposter because they've never had to work hard at whatever they are successful at and that someday somebody's gonna walk up and call them on it.
Even even people like the famous author Neil Gaiman have expressed concerns about that.
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