Hello!
Our son, who is about to turn 6, was identified as gifted last year, but we decided not to share this information with his teacher, as he (our son) seemed to be happy and his school was mostly play based.
He's now about to begin formal school and I guess it is time to tell the teacher, so that they can make some adjustments. Maths is the subject that worries me most. My guess is that they will begin doing easy addition with manipulatives, and my son has been adding and substracting two and then three digit numbers in his head for more than a year and is now doing some multiplication and division, as well as showing interest in fractions and negative numbers. I guess this might be normal with gifted children, but we don't usually have to explain anything. We tell him what a concept means and he is inmediately able to use it.
However, I am very nervous that the teacher perceives our concern as a sign of entitlement and thinks that we are bragging. In the same group there will be at least one child with a pretty severe speech disorder, so I can easily see how they could think "your son doesn't have a problem, this other child does". I am also concerned that they see IQ testing as elitist and deny their validity altogether.
I would appreciate any advice and also some links or literature about the validity of IQ testing. Thank you very much!
