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When I was a kid, they tried to do a TAG-magnet school for racial integration. The only thing we have to demand is that they’re replaced with something better.

For a school that is really on the cutting edge, gifted classes really should be going away. The entire concept of teachers delivering a lesson to an entire class feels antiquated. We can identify when a student is struggling with material and use human teachers to intervene at those moments to help students get unstuck. We’re at the point where we can digitize all the lessons and track a student’s progress in minute detail. The Diamond Age came out in 1995 and it feels like technology is finally getting close to catching up with science fiction. His presence there was a waste of his time. One of my classmates read and understood our entire calculus textbook the day he received it and spent the rest of his year completely bored. I’ve seen from personal experience in the gifted classes that there were still students who were held back significantly by their classmates.

Eliminate school gifted and talented programs how to#

Rather than some binary gifted/non-gifted split, we should be figuring out how to maximize everyone’s potential. We have the technology now to let each student go at his/her/their own pace. The notion that we can bifurcate education into two tracks is really antiquated. The current segregation process leads to those students suffering from the exact same boredom and lack of challenge that you’re talking about because there’s no ability to catch up when you start out behind. But once they get over some initial hurdle, their pace of learning picks up and some will even surpass those who are initially identified as gifted. And one of the things they’ve discovered about the self-paced style that comes with kids learning from their videos is that there are a lot of gifted students that fall through the cracks because they struggle initially. There’s an interview with Sal Khan (of khan academy fame) where he talks about research into learning and identifying gifted students. One part that’s ridiculous, though, is the segregation process. The "gifted helper" learns nothing new, there is no effort at all to teach what comes next, and the actual goal of the teacher likely becomes bring up the lowest scoring kids on some standardized test, not attending to the actual education of the "helper" Doing it over and over again is going to gain nothing by repetition, and usually that's what happens. A kid with a very good understanding of fractions might "learn" a small amount of nuance by trying to teach basic fractions to someone who hasn't yet grasped the concept, but that only goes so far (and not very far at that). In practice, classrooms end up turning their "gifted kid helpers" into unpaid tutors and classroom monitors, and the "gifted helpers" end up learning nothing new for long stretches of time. Yes, there is some argument that you can solidify your knowledge of a topic by teaching it to others, but that's only in limited cases and to limited amounts. Being together with like peers in an environment that allows them to thrive is a life saver for many. Anxiety, pressure, OCD are all common in gifted students. It really sucks for those kids because being gifted doesn't mean you don't have special needs that need to be met and you're fine on your own. 6 for the past 20 years, but they are discussing getting rid of gifted classes now. Now, where I am screening has been done in gr. Between gifted and LD students, you could have a 6-7 grade level gap within a class. You can be grouped with similar age and similar level peers (that's a group within 3 years of each other and within 2 learning levels of each other, smaller gaps if there's the numbers in a local area). We need to remove ages from learning level. The school system isn't set up for it, that was the whole point of moving from one room school houses to grade levels. Mixed level classrooms are awful for everyone. Submit news article (no analysis/opinion) If your post is not a good fit for /r/news, consider submitting to one of these subreddits instead: advocates or celebrates the death of another person.Įxtreme or repeat offenders will be banned.

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