I have school district envy. I wonder if that is Freudian?
This year, this is how our district used their gifted education funds. They appointed one existing teacher per school to be the gifted services supervisor for the school.
That sounds good right? Well consider the following...
1) NONE of the teachers chosen had previous gifted education training.
2) The only training they received this year was an afternoon in-service.
3) They don't work with gifted children but with the teachers and at that they only advise on how to enrich the curricula if the teacher asks for assistance.
4) This to me is the worst, gifted children are NOT identified and if by chance they are, they do not get services.
So basically, we have wasted the money on untrained teachers who assist other teachers in enriching lessons for WHO-KNOWS-WHO?
certainly not the neglected gifted kids....
