Comments on: WMD’s http://teachagiftedkid.com/2008/12/04/wmds/ Personally, I'm reflecting on life. Professionally, I'm a teacher passionate about advocating for the gifted. Sat, 03 Mar 2012 08:13:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Linda George http://teachagiftedkid.com/2008/12/04/wmds/comment-page-1/#comment-1716 Linda George Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:49:36 +0000 http://teachagiftedkid.com/?p=201#comment-1716 Interesting comments. I often go quickly through the first "layer" of my lesson so that I can grab the kids who are going to get it fast. Then I go back and slowly reteach to others. I have been asked to instead, wait till everyone is ready and then go one step...etc. That's not for me. I was also that kid. I wanted to just do it! Now I capture the enthusiasm of the speedier kids and they help me reach some of the others. It's such a delicate balance. Every lesson is pretty different. I love the challenge, though. I hope that I am helping some to reach their potential! Thanks for joining techteachers. I hope that we can be supportive of each other! Interesting comments. I often go quickly through the first “layer” of my lesson so that I can grab the kids who are going to get it fast. Then I go back and slowly reteach to others. I have been asked to instead, wait till everyone is ready and then go one step…etc. That’s not for me.
I was also that kid. I wanted to just do it! Now I capture the enthusiasm of the speedier kids and they help me reach some of the others.
It’s such a delicate balance. Every lesson is pretty different. I love the challenge, though. I hope that I am helping some to reach their potential!
Thanks for joining techteachers. I hope that we can be supportive of each other!

]]> By: Jared Stein http://teachagiftedkid.com/2008/12/04/wmds/comment-page-1/#comment-1713 Jared Stein Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:14:54 +0000 http://teachagiftedkid.com/?p=201#comment-1713 As a kid in elementary school I would pull out whatever paperback I was reading that week whenever I'd finished the assignment early, turned in a test ahead of time, or waited for other groups to finish. To me, efficiency came with a reward: momentary escape, and a chance to read just a few more pp. Yet I was discouraged from doing this by several teachers. At the time I thought I was being disruptive. Looking back I can't believe the ignorance pushed down by the teachers, and I regret that I bowed down to that idiocy. If I were in school today I might be reading the same paperbacks, or I might be reading articles online on my phone, or looking up things on Wikipedia, or, sure, texting with my parents or friends. If a student has met the objectives of a lesson, why shouldn't they use the spare time however they see fit? It sounds like seat time has taken the place of achievement. As a kid in elementary school I would pull out whatever paperback I was reading that week whenever I’d finished the assignment early, turned in a test ahead of time, or waited for other groups to finish. To me, efficiency came with a reward: momentary escape, and a chance to read just a few more pp.

Yet I was discouraged from doing this by several teachers. At the time I thought I was being disruptive. Looking back I can’t believe the ignorance pushed down by the teachers, and I regret that I bowed down to that idiocy.

If I were in school today I might be reading the same paperbacks, or I might be reading articles online on my phone, or looking up things on Wikipedia, or, sure, texting with my parents or friends. If a student has met the objectives of a lesson, why shouldn’t they use the spare time however they see fit? It sounds like seat time has taken the place of achievement.

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