Square Pegs, Round Holes

Responding to a comment on the Early Entry issue last week, I used the expression "square pegs in round holes". Some kids just are this at school, despite all the best and well intentioned efforts of the system and staff to help them "fit". Of course, a sympathetic teacher can help a lot, often by not expecting things that you would from others; letting the gifted writer just get started without the scaffolding others need, for example. The gifted reader should be able to choose their own books to read and review (I encourage this for all students, but some need more guidance). The gifted mathematician can be grouped with others, or partially accelerated, or given a different set of tasks - not a perfect solution, but better than being bored and becoming unmotivated. Do you have a square peg, round hole solution? Leave a comment and let us know.

Did you know?

Gifted children vary a lot. Some are great at sports. Some have disabilities. Children can be gifted or not along one or more of a large number of dimensions. Labels like "gifted" need to be used carefully as all children are different.

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The blogs appearing on the NSWAGTC site are designed to provide colour, news and subjective views about the many issues and concerns facing gifted children and their parents, care-givers and educators.

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