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发信人: language (yy), 信区: KidsGenius
标 题: Program may grow the gifted
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Apr 7 02:19:35 2011, 美东)
Here's a brilliant idea: If you want smarter kids, treat them as if
they're smart.
A U.S. Department of Education evaluation of a North Carolina program
shows that when at-risk students are taught as if they are gifted and
talented, they are likely to perform better academically.
The pilot program, called Project Bright IDEA, operated from 2004 to
2009 in kindergarten through second-grade classrooms in 11 North
Carolina school districts. Five thousand students were in the program at
schools that receive federal funding because of a high percentage of
low-income children.
The study found that within three years, the number of children
identified by their school districts as being academically and
intellectually gifted ranged from 15 percent to 20 percent. That
compared to just 10 percent of children in a control group. The year the
project began, no third-graders from the schools in the study had been
identified as gifted.
Teachers in the study received intensive training on strategies aimed at
gifted children.
Some schools have since adopted elements of the strategy, including
Fuquay-Varina High School, where the achievement gap between white and
black students declined by 6 percentage points in the past four years.
The project was based on the view that all kids can learn gifted
behavior, said William "Sandy" Darity, professor at Duke University's
Sanford School of Public Policy.
"We disproportionately locate black and Latino kids in those
environments where they get the dumbed-down instruction," Darity said.
"So one of the exciting things about Project Bright IDEA is the premise
that you provide this high-level curriculum and instruction to all the
kids."
That means you can eliminate what is, in effect, "internal segregation"
that happens within schools when teachers group students for lessons,
Darity added.
Training teachers key
The training of teachers is key, said Margaret Gayle, co-designer of the
program and director of the American Association for Gifted Children at
Duke. The program was designed to give teachers new skills tailored for
advanced students.
"They challenge students more; they do more with problem-based
learning," she said. "They get a lot of higher-level instructional
strategies, they know better how to motivate kids."
Educators say the methods don't mean that teachers have to work harder,
but that they do work smarter.
"A lot of times, especially with the younger kids, a lot of teachers
will like to dumb down the language that they use with students," said
Danielle Dingus, a second-grade teacher at Northeast Elementary in
Kinston, a school that has adopted the concept. "What we do with Project
Bright IDEA is we expose the students to language they are going to need
to know and use in the real world."
Training is costly
Training teachers on a large scale would not be cheap. In workshops and
weeklong summer programs, the teachers were taught by experts how to
develop students' behavior, including how to pose questions, take risks
and invent solutions.
Teachers need new tools, said Darity, as opposed to penalties.
"Many of the educational reforms, or so-called reforms, are aimed at
pushing teachers out who appear to not be successful in their
classrooms," he said. "This approach is saying we really need to give
teachers an opportunity to reorder and recreate the way in which they
engage with their students."
It's not a radical idea, added Gayle. All professions are retooling.
"We need to retrain every teacher in America, just the way we retrain
our doctors and other professions, to meet the challenges of the 21st
century," she said.
发信人: language (yy), 信区: KidsGenius
标 题: Program may grow the gifted
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Apr 7 02:19:35 2011, 美东)
Here's a brilliant idea: If you want smarter kids, treat them as if
they're smart.
A U.S. Department of Education evaluation of a North Carolina program
shows that when at-risk students are taught as if they are gifted and
talented, they are likely to perform better academically.
The pilot program, called Project Bright IDEA, operated from 2004 to
2009 in kindergarten through second-grade classrooms in 11 North
Carolina school districts. Five thousand students were in the program at
schools that receive federal funding because of a high percentage of
low-income children.
The study found that within three years, the number of children
identified by their school districts as being academically and
intellectually gifted ranged from 15 percent to 20 percent. That
compared to just 10 percent of children in a control group. The year the
project began, no third-graders from the schools in the study had been
identified as gifted.
Teachers in the study received intensive training on strategies aimed at
gifted children.
Some schools have since adopted elements of the strategy, including
Fuquay-Varina High School, where the achievement gap between white and
black students declined by 6 percentage points in the past four years.
The project was based on the view that all kids can learn gifted
behavior, said William "Sandy" Darity, professor at Duke University's
Sanford School of Public Policy.
"We disproportionately locate black and Latino kids in those
environments where they get the dumbed-down instruction," Darity said.
"So one of the exciting things about Project Bright IDEA is the premise
that you provide this high-level curriculum and instruction to all the
kids."
That means you can eliminate what is, in effect, "internal segregation"
that happens within schools when teachers group students for lessons,
Darity added.
Training teachers key
The training of teachers is key, said Margaret Gayle, co-designer of the
program and director of the American Association for Gifted Children at
Duke. The program was designed to give teachers new skills tailored for
advanced students.
"They challenge students more; they do more with problem-based
learning," she said. "They get a lot of higher-level instructional
strategies, they know better how to motivate kids."
Educators say the methods don't mean that teachers have to work harder,
but that they do work smarter.
"A lot of times, especially with the younger kids, a lot of teachers
will like to dumb down the language that they use with students," said
Danielle Dingus, a second-grade teacher at Northeast Elementary in
Kinston, a school that has adopted the concept. "What we do with Project
Bright IDEA is we expose the students to language they are going to need
to know and use in the real world."
Training is costly
Training teachers on a large scale would not be cheap. In workshops and
weeklong summer programs, the teachers were taught by experts how to
develop students' behavior, including how to pose questions, take risks
and invent solutions.
Teachers need new tools, said Darity, as opposed to penalties.
"Many of the educational reforms, or so-called reforms, are aimed at
pushing teachers out who appear to not be successful in their
classrooms," he said. "This approach is saying we really need to give
teachers an opportunity to reorder and recreate the way in which they
engage with their students."
It's not a radical idea, added Gayle. All professions are retooling.
"We need to retrain every teacher in America, just the way we retrain
our doctors and other professions, to meet the challenges of the 21st
century," she said.
