Q Hello! I am the parent of a six-year-old female. We live in S. Florida. I am having a problem with this word ,'gifted'. I feel that it is being used too loosely to label bright child. It seems to me that everybody has a 'gifted' child or knows of somebody's child who is in the gifted program. My daughter is not the smartest in her class and she struggles with certain assignments, but seems to figure out other things that I think she knows nothing about. I am not sure what my question to you is--only that I want the best for my child and I have to admit that it bothers me that everybody else's kid is 'gifted' and mine is not. I recall being in elementary school in the fourth grade and there was a boy in my math class who was from second grade,-- that to me is gifted. Children who play instruments at an early age to me are gifted. A You and I both share a problem with the word 'gifted' as it is used today. There seem to be as many definitions of the word gifted as there are experts in the field of giftedness. The term gifted began being used decades ago to describe children (or adults) who were very intelligent or highly competent in areas of academic achievement. Over the years, many parents wished to view any talent, creativity or academic success their kids had as 'giftedness'. Scholars argued that IQ was the most important variable in determining giftedness; other scholars said the bias in IQ testing invalidated any such assessments. Lacking a universally accepted 'scientific' definition of giftedness many academics simply say something akin to 'I know giftedness when I see it.'Nebudu polemizovat o platnosti a/nebo vhodnosti označování nadaných dětí ve školském systému (věřím, že jediným přínosem tohoto termínu je často ego rodičů), řeknu vám, abyste se nebáli, protože vaše dítě je nadané a talentované . Třída Podle toho, co jste popsal, je v některých věcech lepší než ostatní, jako většina z nás, a jsem si jist, že ho povzbudíte, aby byl co nejvíce zvědavý a věřil si ve svou inteligenci. Inteligence přichází v mnoha podobách. V této zemi nás často měří jen známkami na vysvědčení. Divíme se, proč naše školy neprodukují a neabsolvují více hvězd. Nechtěli bychom se zabývat nadanými dětmi, které se nudí, nezvládají školní výzvy a jsou kvůli tomu negativně označovány? Debbie, co myslíš?
