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Gifted and Talented
What it is like to be you and what it is like to teach you
How did you get here?
• In 2nd grade, all students are tested with a census test.
• Scores on this census test ID academically gifted students.
• The State of South Carolina has a specific definition for academically gifted.
How did you get here?
• Students who are not identified with the census test may enter the G&T program through teacher recommendation
• Once identified as G&T, students do not need to “requalify”
Congratulations, you’re G&T! Now What!?
• G&T in Elementary and Middle school is enrichment, fun, and makes you feel special.
• You get pulled out of classes for G&T services and fall into sort of an elite status
Congratulations, you’re G&T! Now What!?
• Make new friends…but keep the old?
• Special treatment by teachers, because you are special! – And not a behavior problem…
And then grades get involved…
• But once grades get involved G&T isn’t a special club anymore…it is a source of stress.
• You were always told you’re the smartest (and you are!) and society tells you SMART = ALL As. But not everyone can get an A…
And then grades got involved…
• So now you’re competing with your friends…
• And you’ve long since grown far apart from your non-G&T friends…
• And you’re feeling all alone
If Johnny and I are both G&T…how did he get the A
and I got the B?• You start comparing yourself to your
classmates.
• This is unfair.
• What does it mean to be gifted?
Multiple Intelligences
• Your initial screening WAY BACK IN 2nd GRADE, put you here and labeled you as “GIFTED” but no one told you that you are all gifted in different ways…
• Visual-Spatial, Bodily-kinesthetic, Musical, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Linguistic, Logical -Mathematical
Multiple Intelligences
• High scores on one portion of the multiple intelligences schema may have placed you in G&T while high scores on a completely different aspect of the multiple intelligences placed your friend in G&T.
• Moral: You cannot compare yourselves to others.
“G&T means I don’t make mistakes…”
• I don’t know who told you kids this…but it is ruining you!
• Do you really think anything good ever comes without some stumbling blocks along the way?
• The key is LEARNING from your mistakes so that you become stronger.
A normal child’s education
A gifted child’s education
Conclusions
• GT students ‘get by’ on natural ability for a long time without learning how to study/how to learn.
• GT students get used to an education that is easy and effortless and become frustrated when challenge occurs
• GT students don’t know how to address challenge
Everyone’s path is different…When does the challenge
cross with your ability?• 8th grade math
• 12th grade science
• College?