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    #163850 08/07/13 10:40 PM
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    Hello, My 7 yrs old daughter never had I.Q test, and our school district do not offer any Gifted-Program.

    She is very bright child that she start to read when she was 3 yrs old and now she read over 200 pages book with no problem.

    My biggest concern is that
    the school teachers has no understand of Gifted child, for example her math teacher was yelling at her because my daughter forgot to write number on top (regrouping) when she did addition and subtraction problem( it's because it is extra unnecessary step for my daughter since she has very strong mental calculation skill,She can even solve long division problem with her mentally calculating it in two second ). Her recent (spring) MAP score show 226 for math, 228 for Reading ( 2-5 grade testing), but her current class teaching her double digit addition and subtraction. I do not know how can I help her to provide right education for her since our district and school are not much care for someone like my daughter, and I am not in situation to move elsewhere.

    Please advice!


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    Sorry to hear about your tough situation ��I sympathize.

    If you're able to homeschool, that may be the most promising option. There are a lot of good educational resources out there if you know where to look for them. Sometimes people recommend against homeschooling on the grounds that it offers fewer opportunities to socialize. This is true, but (a) if your daughter is well above grade level, her opportunities to socialize within her class may not be so good (b) homeschool can be supplemented with extracurricular activities involving other children.

    I've heard that there's a strong base of evidence that acceleration (skipping a grade or two) is beneficial, both academically and socially. If your district/school allows it, you can consider it as an option.

    If neither of these things is possible, your daughter's teacher might be open to assigning your daughter work of your choice during parts of the school day. As I said, there are some really good resources to draw material from.

    To the extent that your daughter doesn't have options other than the standard curriculum, I would try to frame it to her that she view school as a place to learn to follow rules. It's very suboptimal for school to serve that function alone. But I think that gifted children genuinely have something to gain from getting used to following rules. A common problem for gifted children to have when they grow up is not being able to do what their bosses tell them to do in the work place, because they've become so used to viewing institutional rules as pointless.

    If you'd like to say more about your situation, I'd be happy to offer further thoughts.


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    Have you tried talking to the teacher about her skills? Perhaps bring in some work that she does at home and ask if any differentiation is possible. I would also bring in some general articles about gifted kids and ways to differentiate and leave them with the teacher after saying something like "I'm sure you have seen these before, but I am just in the habit of giving out some resources to my daughter's teachers since I know how busy teachers are and you probably don't have time to look for such information."
    I would either search Davidson's resources for some to print off, or get some from Hoagies or even give her the url's to the articles in an email as well as giving a paper copy.

    Good luck.

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    I agree with Jonah. When you homeschool you are limitless in advancing to other grades. There are also Co-ops you can participate in (once a week) to accomplish their gym and art requirements. So a still a "classroom" experience. You can also advance by subject. I have a kid who doesn't like to write. So we are not advancing in that area but he is three grades ahead in History, Math and Science, Reading. You can go it alone and pick your curriculum or have the structure of an online school. That way my child gets his state testing, and I can see if there are any "gaps" in his education.

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    You could try asking for subject acceleration for math (and any other subject she's well above grade level in).

    Our son was in a similar situation (except that the school did test him and told us he was gifted). Even though his school tried to accommodate him, it wasn't enough. And now we're homeschooling.


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