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Originally Posted by 1914sierra
Just offered it up as a resource genetic . . . One of many, with widely varying results.
Personally, I've found the people with the highest IQ's to have the most difficulty functioning in relationships/workplace, etc. There is a reason GT students are generally taught in separate classrooms/groups. That is the recommendation based on the latest research about education and gifted children. They work well together, but tend to have great difficulty working with students of average ability. I've seen that play out time and again over my years as a teacher. Definitely walk to the beat of a different drummer.
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So have I, Sierra. I taught what used to be called "Honors" children
in their senior year in high school in English. (Maybe it's called AP now.)
It was being done in the 1960's, as well, in metropolitan school systems
that were savvy about gifted and talented students. In fact, there was
consideration all the way down the line, from the gifted, talented, to
"college bound", to general level education, and special education for
handicapped or disabled.
It is very true that these students work exceptionally well when challenged, and they work independently well, too. Honors English was always taught in small groups, usually no more than 20 students in a class. One or two, now and then, had emotional things that bothered them, but in general, they were a very talented, beauty-oriented group to work with. I loved them, and enjoyed teaching on that level.
I couldn't handle the 9th graders who were either going to barely skim
by high school or would drop out by the end of the 9th year. I really felt for them, but could not teach those folks. My hat is off to all special education teachers. They have the endurance and strength that I don't have and they do a very good job with the resources they have.
I read an earlier article today saying that intelligence is of the heart; intellectual thinking is not. Haven't time to go into more of it, but the writer is right, in my view. It was his idea that Picasso, Beethoven (among thousands of others) had intelligence of the "heart"; (I think it's the creativity that he's really talking about in intelligence.)
Very nice thread all around. I've enjoyed it all.