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joshwriting) wrote2006-03-10 02:40 am
joshwriting) wrote2006-03-10 02:40 am
Teaching Teachers - Part 1
This past Tuesday, I gave an hour long presentation on giftedness to a staff meeting of public middle school teachers. It did not help that it was a mandatory meeting nor that it was after school, and least of all that it was on a day when grades were due!
That all said, I think it went reasonably well. I started them with a pre-test to try to both give a feel for such things as I was talking about them and to gather information at the same time! I asked for definitions of gifted and for when folks thought US schools started having G&T programs. 2/3 of the teachers (who said anything) believe that G&T programs started in the US since 1980! (More than half the teachers who filled out forms said 1980 or later - about 25% took no position on when.)
*shakes head*
That all said, I think it went reasonably well. I started them with a pre-test to try to both give a feel for such things as I was talking about them and to gather information at the same time! I asked for definitions of gifted and for when folks thought US schools started having G&T programs. 2/3 of the teachers (who said anything) believe that G&T programs started in the US since 1980! (More than half the teachers who filled out forms said 1980 or later - about 25% took no position on when.)
*shakes head*
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