Deb Douglas
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399 appearances
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first heard Sep 2018
last heard Sep 2018
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If I tell my kids they're gifted, are they going to expect something?
Are they going to think they're better than other people?
Are they going to be um elitist about themselves?
Is it going to hurt them?
And it finally occurred to me that we can't just tell our children they are gifted.
They probably already know they're different from other kids.
But we need to help them understand what that giftedness means.
All the pros and cons.
It needs to be a long conversation.
And instead the message kids were getting, oh, you're identified, you're in a gifted program.
Okay, that just simply means you're smarter than everybody else and you ought to be getting A's.
That's not the message we want to give.
So in working with my gifted kids, I help them um look at several different definitions of giftedness that have been around for a long, long time, compare, contrast, weigh all the different parts, and also to help them recognize that we as adults, we as an educational community, have never settled on one good definition of giftedness.
And yet yet we know that kids with high intellectual academic ability need something different.
And I show the kids the bell curve, not because I want them to post their IQ on there, but to help them understand that not only in intellectual ability, but in so many other characteristics that gifted kids have, they wind up somewhere on that bell curve.
And the reason it's especially important for kids to self-advocate in an educational system is because the vast majority of what's going on in the classroom on a daily basis
of necessity falls in the middle of that bell curve.
Teachers, instruction, curriculum aim at that large group, and any time kids are outliers on either side of that bell curve, they need something different.
We also talk about the responsibilities, not just their right for something different, but their responsibility, and of course.
Being bored is no excuse for doing poor homework.
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