Our last session of class was dedicated to a presentation
about gifted students and how we, as teachers, can identify them within a class
and therefore not miss the opportunity to help them grow their potential. The professional
who came to show us the presentation, was a mom of two gifted kids and we think
it was of paramount importance since her passion and knowledge was reflected in
her personal situation. She talked about how stereotypes are very dangerous
when diagnosing a gifted child and that sometimes it comes with lots of
struggles to identify and help them become who they really are.
As a group, we talked about this topic after watching the
video “la campana de Gauss” and our conclusions were in fact
very similar: we hardly ever think about the possibility to find these kinds of
students in class and, even if we do, we do not attribute problems to their coexistence
in the classroom. We tend to think that gifted students are smart and well
behaved and that they will not need any extra help from the teachers. However,
our brainstorming process shifted a bit after the presentation and we realized
that things are not that easy. We need to be fully aware and we need to pay
special attention to all our students, even the best ones. Because observation
is key to finding out the problem on time.
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