Online Community Reflection

The posting I read last week had to do with a teacher asking for advice about a new gifted program at the school. Instead of a pull-out program, the school was contemplating a program where there would be a push-in program for language arts and math. The people who posted in response to this posting were concerned about issues such as the needs of musically and artistically gifted being ignored, twice exceptional students not being challenged properly, and other students being left out. I think that schools need to realize that "one size doesn't fit all" when it comes to gifted students. Many students are high acheivers and are not truly gifted. We also have discussed in class that a student labeled "gifted" because of test scores may be identified in one district but not another. I think that many gifted programs focus on math and english because those are the subjects that are tested by state achievement tests. Often students who are emotionally, musically, or artisitcally gifted are not having their needs met.