Adding a link to another
post with negative classroom practices which, unfortunately, may be utilized to undermine the gifted.
limiting their growth by guiding their choices toward:
- a preference for challenge avoidance,
- a fear of making errors and/or acknowledging mistakes,
- a distaste for checking their work and/or seeking help,
- acceptance of a fixed mindset, in which an error shows the unmovable boundary of their intelligence.
A tip for parents:
Please be alert to these practices in your child's classroom...
and consider embracing
learning-from-mistakes at home.
More examples of stumbling blocks for the gifted in this old
post, and in this old
post (which exists in a thread of Toxic Educational Practices).
With Common Core, data collection, and equal outcomes, the government schools which children attend today are significantly different than the public schools which their parents may have attended more than a decade ago.
This post is primarily to raise awareness among newer parents to the forum... especially those who may be bewildered by the classroom experiences their child reports, and/or whose child may be suddenly inundated with homework, unhappy, and/or suffering a lack of positive self-esteem, and/or underachieving, and/or exhibiting school refusal.
