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Leaving Lost Einsteins Behind?
July 29, 2021
As water given sugar sweetens, given salt grows salty,
we become our choices.
Each yes, each no continues.
-Jane Hirschfield, from her poem, Rebus
-Jane Hirschfield, from her poem, Rebus
A guest opinion essay in the New York Times, by Thomas B. Edsall, is called “We Are Leaving ‘Lost Einsteins’ Behind.” He makes the case that the way our education system identifies talented students is lacking. He explains:
“Many spatially talented adolescents may never approach their full potential due to a lack of opportunities to develop their skills. A great loss occurs at talent searches that identify intellectually precocious young adolescents...Current talent search procedures focus on the assessment of mathematical and verbal abilities” and fail to assess for spatial talent.
Rusty Keeler’s award-winning book, Adventures in Risky Play, advocates for creating the kinds of hands-on, compelling environments that encourage young children to develop their visual-spatial abilities, and that allow educators to notice and celebrate those skills.
“Many spatially talented adolescents may never approach their full potential due to a lack of opportunities to develop their skills. A great loss occurs at talent searches that identify intellectually precocious young adolescents...Current talent search procedures focus on the assessment of mathematical and verbal abilities” and fail to assess for spatial talent.
Rusty Keeler’s award-winning book, Adventures in Risky Play, advocates for creating the kinds of hands-on, compelling environments that encourage young children to develop their visual-spatial abilities, and that allow educators to notice and celebrate those skills.
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Comments (3)
Displaying All 3 CommentsLincoln, Nebraska, Australia
Robert, thank you for continuing this conversation!
Nora, thanks for sharing your blog!
-Tiffany at Exchange
Independent Consultant
CARTERSVILLE, GA, United States
Are We Afraid to Talk About Love?
Parents aren't. It is the way they express themselves in letters to the school. Read one. Love is the most often word used in a complimentary parent letter. Parents talk about the love the teacher has for their child. The love the child has for the teacher and for the school. To parents it is all about love.
New Jersey, United States
In January, I wrote a blog about this issue of missing identification of talented children because of our narrow definitions of gifted and talented and how we determine which children are gifted and talented. Here is the link:
https://rethinking-education.org/
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