Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Parenting and Advocacy gifted teacher has no gifted training

We spent only three hours on it in my program (the saving grace was the fact that the instructor has three gifted kids of her own so she has legitimate knowledge and perspective). Still... three hours was not nearly enough to even begin to cover the complexities of these kids' needs.


(lol) Yup


The only problem with this is that the 2e kids whose scores might be suppressed and miss cutoffs.

I have to tell you that DD's gifted magnet looks nothing like either 1 or 2, but then, it's an IQ-based program (130 and above). Achievement tests are not used for admission. Students do initially get tested based on teacher rec/checklists, but you can also request testing, I believe, and they also take outside test results.

I'd be...careful about the implication that girls are obedient and MG and boys are smarter and outside the box.