Our ds9 is in a mostly enrichment type of gt program, but there is also regular class time acceleration by subject for each child. He had at the beginning of the year a series of 'thinking maps' he had to work through, before getting to any of the 'interesting' work for the gt class.
Well...these things just took him forever (compared with most of the kids). Part of this was lack of familiarity with the work, as well as it not being his cup of tea. I think it was good to work through these despite not enjoying it a bunch; I do think he learned some things, definitely not stuff that he would normally gravitate towards and just absorb.
No way would I say that backing off on his advanced reading/writing group would make any sense, however (if that had been suggested while he worked his way through this meta-cognition stuff).
This is a different kind of work and the kids need all of it they can get!
Last edited by chris1234; 03/17/10 08:53 PM.
