Week Six - Online Community Reflection

This week I went back to the GATE discussion board on teachers.net and read an interesting post from a teacher titled, "How Can I Help This Student"? The post was from a gifted teacher who had a challenging child in her classroom. She described the child as "immature", "hyper", with frequent outbursts, and constantly off-task. She also went on to say that he was a creative thinker but she did not think he "understood himself." I thought this was a great example of the asynchrony that is often found in gifted students. I don't believe that many teachers even realize that this exists is gifted students.