IDEALLY, teachers and parents stay alert for kids who might be gifted while teaching; a lot of it is based on teacher assessment. If your school's lucky, you'll have a counselor trained in assessing learning differences, too. And there are also written tests, but IQ tests are really just rough estimates of a few specific abilities.
Giftednesss is a learning style, not just a measure of intelligence, so in a regular claim a gifted kid might get good grades but be bored, or just shut down and get terrible grades. But getting them the special ed they need isn't always easy--it takes money, resources, and teacher training, so often they're either left in regular classes or just moved up a grade our two, which doesn't always work because they don't have accelerated development in all areas. So is pretty complex! S lot of advocates are working on making it better, but there's a long way to go.
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Date: 2014-11-14 05:17 pm (UTC)Giftednesss is a learning style, not just a measure of intelligence, so in a regular claim a gifted kid might get good grades but be bored, or just shut down and get terrible grades. But getting them the special ed they need isn't always easy--it takes money, resources, and teacher training, so often they're either left in regular classes or just moved up a grade our two, which doesn't always work because they don't have accelerated development in all areas. So is pretty complex! S lot of advocates are working on making it better, but there's a long way to go.