This is a great article, and I am trying to come up with a way to send it to my DS6's teacher without offending her. She has been complaining to me that his focus is getting worse as the school year goes on. I really believe it is because 1) he is bored and unchallenged. She said she would differentiate for him, but I have yet to see it; and 2) he has difficulty with fine motor skills and has difficulty writing (and doesn't like it). She agreed to reducing the writing workload, but that only seemed to last for a week.
My favorite part of the article...
"To further this explanation, research also found that in the classroom, a gifted child's perceived inability to stay on task is likely to be related to boredom, curriculum, mismatched learning style or other environmental factors (Webb, 2000"
