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Monday, November 7, 2005
The Gift of Gifted Education
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Several Get Schooled readers have asked me to post about pull-out gifted programs for elementary school students who qualify. These programs go by several different names: focus, reach, achieve etc. They generally involve having students who have been identified as gifted spend time each week working with a specially trained teacher. Often the students work on a group project that has to do with a social issue.
Parents often complain that this isn’t enough. Their kids are still bored in traditional class. They also complain that the projects are to showboaty and lacking in substance. They tell me they want their child’s gifted education to extend beyond the pull-out program, and they question whether teachers understand the complexity of the gifted child.
Parents, are you satisfied with your child’s gifted education program? What would your ideal program look like? Teachers, how do you handle gifted children in the classroom?
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