Indigo, Those are great suggestions for the classroom. It would be amazing if more schools considered using them.

Also, agree with your point about how schools often use lack of "achievement" as evidence of not being gifted. Another sad circumstance most of us have encountered is where schools assume gifted children are fulfilled because of good grades and high achievement, and ignore that many are skating through with little or no effort, developing bad habits that reinforce an under the radar form of underachievement.