What was the teacher hoping for the students to do? Create new characters? Maybe this is an issue of the teacher's directions being unclear or poorly matched to the output she is seeking. As a follow on, did your daughter interpret the instructions in a reasonable way?
I haven't seen all her writings but the teacher did say she does the assignment as instructed, just that she uses the same 2 characters
Personally, I think it shows ingenuity for a child to take an existing framework (i.e. the characters) and make it her own. Isn't that called "innovation" for adults?
This is exactly how my sister described it.
Do you feel that the teacher's opinion on this one assignment is being used to label your daughter more broadly without basis?
I think this is one part of it. She also mentioned that she doesn't think she is an out of the box thinker. To sum it up she doesn't see my dd as gifted as the other kids who qualified for the G&T class in her class (3 other kids). So basically she is trying to determine my dd's giftedness by how she performs in class in relations to these 3 other students. Despite the fact that she tells me she can't engage my dd, my dd doesn't talk or share with her, dd doesn't share her emotions in class, doesn't participate, and that she (the teacher) just doesn't get my dd.
