giftedness

Not even Juanita with her presumed giftedness had realized that once our swimming hole was discovered, we’d never be able to go back there.

Allergies, feeling his feelings more, giftedness and impulsivity can all be at play here, and although I’m not a big fan of early diagnoses, it is helpful to keep a record of what you are seeing to best support him as he gets older.

“I think that the debate would be elevated if people understood that they are operating on archaic models of what giftedness is,” Jonathan Plucker, a professor of education at Johns Hopkins University, told me recently.

Rather than eliminating programs, which have foreclosed opportunity for thousands of Black and Latino children, the city has put the task of identifying “giftedness” in 4- and 5-year-olds exclusively in the hands of prekindergarten teachers who recommend eligible students, who are in turn ordained gifted and talented by lottery.

Crucially, teachers receive the kind of professional development that extends beyond a video and some support: a 45-hour course on “giftedness.”