Thursday, October 26, 2006
Lesson 1 GT Course
Reflect upon your experience with students you feel are "gifted". Read the sample essay enclosed and write an essay about a gifted child you have known. This was written by a former course participant.
PROFILE OF A GIFTED CHILD
Profile of a Gifted Child
If you visited my room you would quickly notice Sally. She is very vocal and has definite opinions and ideas about things. She always has something to share with the class, or with a neighbor. She is very knowledgeable about words. If the class wants to know the definition of a word, she can usually tell them what it means and will use it in a sentence (or paragraph).
Sally has times when others would prefer not to have her around or in their group. She is the youngest of three siblings. The other two siblings are boys, and are known for their aggressive nature. What other people are doing, or saying can quickly annoy her. When in a group she likes to be in control and finds it difficult to consider other people’s ideas, therefore compromising can become an issue.
She loves to do art projects. Her work is very detailed. It usually takes her awhile to finish because everything needs to look perfect
Math and science are two other areas that interest her. She is an excellent problem solver. She has the ability to see the whole picture.
Sally is very confident in herself except when it comes to reading and writing. She has recently been tested and labeled with a learning disability. It is a type of dyslexia that has effected her phonetic development. She gets very frustrated when an activity involves writing. Her perfectionism interferes with her getting her ideas on paper because she knows that she is misspelling most of her words. At the end of this school year both her reading and writing were two benchmarks below standard.
When Sally’s world of written words opens up for her, there will be no stopping her. Some day she will be a famous architect, lawyer, doctor or what ever she wants to be. She once told me she would like to be a teacher. What a teacher she would be!
PROFILE OF A GIFTED CHILD
Profile of a Gifted Child
If you visited my room you would quickly notice Sally. She is very vocal and has definite opinions and ideas about things. She always has something to share with the class, or with a neighbor. She is very knowledgeable about words. If the class wants to know the definition of a word, she can usually tell them what it means and will use it in a sentence (or paragraph).
Sally has times when others would prefer not to have her around or in their group. She is the youngest of three siblings. The other two siblings are boys, and are known for their aggressive nature. What other people are doing, or saying can quickly annoy her. When in a group she likes to be in control and finds it difficult to consider other people’s ideas, therefore compromising can become an issue.
She loves to do art projects. Her work is very detailed. It usually takes her awhile to finish because everything needs to look perfect
Math and science are two other areas that interest her. She is an excellent problem solver. She has the ability to see the whole picture.
Sally is very confident in herself except when it comes to reading and writing. She has recently been tested and labeled with a learning disability. It is a type of dyslexia that has effected her phonetic development. She gets very frustrated when an activity involves writing. Her perfectionism interferes with her getting her ideas on paper because she knows that she is misspelling most of her words. At the end of this school year both her reading and writing were two benchmarks below standard.
When Sally’s world of written words opens up for her, there will be no stopping her. Some day she will be a famous architect, lawyer, doctor or what ever she wants to be. She once told me she would like to be a teacher. What a teacher she would be!
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