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48 Essential Links for the Parents of Gifted Child

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48 Essential Links for the Parents of Gifted Child

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Every parent hopes for their child to be smart and to excel in school, but sometimes parents just don’t know what to do with a child who is especially exceptional. Useful to the classroom teacher too.

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February 13, 2020
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As a mother of 2 gifted children, the second of which has just entered high school I find myself again looking for the information to lead my case that gifted children cannot be given mounds of worksheets and expected to keep static on the same information they learned prior for weeks on end. Once again I find myself having to go into the school to plead my sons case (luckily my daughter has moved on to college). Once again, a teacher who likes to hear herself talk for 2 hours about the power point she is showing at the same time, the same information over and over, no new way of introducing it to her students, only to give them a stack of worksheets an inch thick to be completed by the next class. My son again melting down in an "AP" class, "a college level class". This is not how college professors give work. Yes, they may read the power point but the assignments are research based, with specific questions, details, and a rubric, not ever worksheets. Again I find myself asking "did the teacher even look to see who in this class has an IEP?" , "is this teacher 'gifted endorsed'?" Because here we are a month in & I cannot do this again to my son, leave him in a class where the teacher either just does not care or is oblivious to the population in her classroom. This list of gifted sites is a fabulous resource, many of the sites I have seen and researched before when my daughter was growing up. Only 4 more years I keep telling myself...I hope this one makes it through without taking a GED out of frustration. Please advocate for your children, they need all the support they can get. The teachers are overwhelmed but they will actually get a better response from the whole class if they can differentiate their teaching strategies and take the time to teach (and they will also learn along the way) the gifted kids. It's been alot of fun learning from my kids who are always thinking outside the box. The teachers could have such a good time if they'd only embrace it & work with it.
mindmural_1794285
October 09, 2017
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