repressive dilettante: Homeschool: Is Your Child Gifted? : Ideas for Women Home and ...

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Homeschool: Is Your Child Gifted? : Ideas for Women Home and ...

Growing up I could read before I ever started school. It was not that I was taught to read it was simply that I picked it up somehow. I would steal my older brother?s books and keep trying the words until I finally figured them out. By the fifth grade I had read War and Peace twice. In my home this was normal and we never thought anything of it. My father was gifted and so was his siblings. My younger brother also was gifted but in different?areas.

When you homeschool how can you tell if your child is gifted??Many experts believe only 3 to 5 percent of the population is gifted, though some estimates ?can reach 20%. Only 1/10% are what ?is called profoundly gifted which means they are the rare prodigies who devour complex texts before kindergarten or play a violin sonata. ?The trouble is there is no universal standard to define being gifted. There is a national standard used called Javits Act.

41 states have set their own definitions of being gifted and you can contact the school board int eh area you live in to have your child tested. Teaching a gifted child is much more a challenge because he or she may actually prove to be above your?abilities. I spent years?arguing?with teachers only to prove them wrong about whatever it was. I was asked to never return to several classes for that reason and my dad was asked never to attend a conference because he once told a teacher her job was to teach and not give an A on paper with?punctuation?errors. I never got an A again from that teacher!

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