Fi - I think it's great that you want to help Jenna become a well-rounded young lady. You're so right.... if you focus too much on the "gifted" side, everything else can go by the wayside. I've seen many a bright, intelligent child have trouble in other areas such as sport and social skills. Just as kids that are great at sport often struggle acedemically.
If you google "Gardiner's Multiple Intelligences" you may get some ideas on activities you can do to help cater to all the different levels of intelligence (there's 8 of them). There's another school of thought that teaching curriculm is based around in PS and HS but it's escaped my mind atm. Basically we use the two models to help us create a program that caters to all types of learning (well, as much as we possibly can). Let's face it... some people are more analytical and others are more visual/kinaesthetic in their approach to learning.
I think the thread would have been useful but, yeah... I guess it does have the possibility of becoming a free-for-all (we'd all like to think our own children are special in some way). Still.... there's been plenty of threads that could have gone OTT and haven't... I still reckon it's a good idea.
ETA: just remembered the other school of thought... Bloom's Taxonomy. Google that too.
Last edited by Debbie Lee; December 14th, 2006 at 06:52 PM.
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