Gifted Learners in the Regular Ed Classroom
The nice thing about a blog is that I can post my fondest desires for education, and it will either fly away like bubbles in the wind or hit home for anyone who reads it. Today is one of those days I feel like sending bubbles out to the universe. Here goes... During my time in the classroom, I had the opportunity to work with a wide range of ability levels. I see you nodding your head. I know many of you have shared that same experience. In the schools I was in, gifted students were sprinkled around like the sugar on the top of a donut. Teachers were up in arms if they didn't get their fair share of the gifted learners. They saw them as a group that would drive their test scores up with little or no effort on the teacher's part, thus, giving the teacher more time to work with the students who just didn't get it. Often, the battle for who snagged the most gifted students didn't end with the teachers. Parents would wonder why the gifted k...