Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on September 23, 2007 - 10:35.
Inspire and encourage *all* children. Don't just cater to the "academically gifted" kids. The rest of them deserve caring teachers, hands on projects, and fair discipline as well.
School websites need to be created and maintained, with homework schedules, teacher emails, etc. (and again, not just for the "gifted" classes, but for *all* the classes).
Students with disabilities, ADHD, learning disabilities, etc. are not undeserving or hopeless. There may be a very intelligent, even truly gifted kid struggling. Teachers and administrators need to wake up and realize that all straight As does not necesarily = giftedness/goodness and bad grades do not necessarily = dumbness/badness.
The End of Grade tests are ridiculous and do not measure true learning or intelligence. Also, it does not benefit students to scare them about these tests and tell the ones who have trouble that there is "no way they will do good on the EOGs."
Encourage all Children
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on September 23, 2007 - 10:35.
Inspire and encourage *all* children. Don't just cater to the "academically gifted" kids. The rest of them deserve caring teachers, hands on projects, and fair discipline as well.
School websites need to be created and maintained, with homework schedules, teacher emails, etc. (and again, not just for the "gifted" classes, but for *all* the classes).
Students with disabilities, ADHD, learning disabilities, etc. are not undeserving or hopeless. There may be a very intelligent, even truly gifted kid struggling. Teachers and administrators need to wake up and realize that all straight As does not necesarily = giftedness/goodness and bad grades do not necessarily = dumbness/badness.
The End of Grade tests are ridiculous and do not measure true learning or intelligence. Also, it does not benefit students to scare them about these tests and tell the ones who have trouble that there is "no way they will do good on the EOGs."