Gifted Education and Higher Student Achievement

by arizonataylor

Sep 17, 2010

It’s easy to overlook gifted children, because many of them often seem to effortlessly do well in class. In an effort to make sure that all children learn, we spend more money and time helping children with academic disabilities. We do this, because we believe that all children can learn. It’s the right thing to do. What do we do for the other end of the spectrum though? Unfortunately, we often don’t do much at all. The gifted students receive little or no extra attention in many schools. I know of at least one district where the dropout rate is higher for gifted students than it is for either regular education or special education. We’re losing so many of these talented students.

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Leah I agree that often gifted children are overlooked and that THEIR needs need to be considered instead of having them help the teacher, tutor other children, etc.

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Sep 17, 2010

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arizonataylor On 9/17/10, Leah wrote: > I agree that often gifted children are overlooked and that > THEIR needs need to be considered instead of having them help > the teacher, tutor other children, etc. > > For a brief summary, click below Thank you. I wish more teachers believed that. In my district, we're losing our gifted children. They're dr...See More

Sep 18, 2010

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Anita And there are also students who are very highly gifted in some aspects of intelligence, and who yearn for challenge, but because of average areas of intelligence otherwise, and very slow processing because of the uneveness, they struggle to keep up with ap and advanced classes. They need accommodations, but the LEA says they just need to work harde...See More

Sep 20, 2010

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arizonataylor On 9/20/10, Anita wrote: > And there are also students who are very highly gifted in > some aspects of intelligence, and who yearn for challenge, > but because of average areas of intelligence otherwise, and > very slow processing because of the uneveness, they struggle > to keep up with ap and advanced classes. They need > accomm...See More

Sep 20, 2010

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