Originally Posted by Grinity
The big difference is that as adults, we specialize in our area of interest and do our jobs for years, giving us a change to learn in depth with whatever aptitude we started off with.
Are you getting at an assumption that a non-gifted adult might become highly proficient at understanding giftedness through years of teaching gifted kids? The only fear I have here is that, if GT identification in the rest of the country looks like it does in Colorado where the state now mandates that it include everything from leadership qualities to high achievement in any one academic area, a GT coordinator who is not him/herself gifted might not easily learn to distinguish btwn the large majority of kids s/he is teaching who are not gifted in the sense we use here (high IQ) and those who are.

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