Jessica Blair, LMHC - Counseling and Coaching Services
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For the past 14 years, I have offered individual therapy and consultation services to clients across the lifespan whose lives are impacted by mood disorders (depression, anxiety, etc) as well as life circumstances.
10/18/2021
05/03/2021
This article hits close to home as I watch parents from my son’s elementary school debate what is the best model for delivering gifted student education.
As a former school counselor and current mental health counselor, I see way too many parents use “gifted” as a badge of honor or way to display eliteness/status in the education setting. What they don’t want to accept about their gift child are the deficits that are associated with the gifted identification. Additionally, they do not want to recognize the disparities and biases that can exist in the gifted identification process (more on that in future posts).
Let’s focus on why we might not be seeing higher achievement/gains out of students with a “gifted” classification. Poor communication skills, high anxiety, high rates of depression, inability to effectively task manage, issues with motivation, and interpersonal conflicts are all the deficits of the gifted student. However, many parents only want to focus on the parts that come ease to their child, the academics. Is focusing on the gifted child’s innate strength while ignoring the weaknesses the best way to assist and support the gifted child educationally, professionally, socially, or personally?
Reading this article and evaluating the current gifted model offered at my child’s school, makes we wonder if gifted programs are truly serving the best interest of the gift child or is it just further adding to the misnomer that to reach the gifted child you must provide a more academically stimulating environment with children at or above the child’s level. The things that inhibit the gifted child’s success in life are not the academic pieces. Supporting and mentoring to the areas were their deficits exist could be they key to providing better gifted educational services.
PROOF POINTS: Gifted programs provide little to no academic boost, new study says A new study raises big questions about whether gifted education benefits the kids who are lucky enough to be in it.
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