Students today are very different then those students of 50 years ago. Because society is so rapidly changing, so are the dynamics in schooling along with student’s attitudes, beliefs and perceptions of learning. It is no surprise that with such a technology advanced world; students are impacted greatly by what surrounds them.
When we think of the word “gifted” today it has a much different definition than it did years and years ago. There are so many different cases of giftedness prevailing in the classroom. Teachers are being forced to revaluate what the word means, which students fall into the category as well as how to provide an enriching, challenging and valued education to these students all the while trying to keep order in a class of 20-25 other students.
In this blog, I will look at what gifted students were defined as, and what they are defined as today, negative and positive’s associated with being gifted, how gifted students are incorporated in the subject of math and an example of a case of enrichment in a student back in the early 90’s vs one in today’s society. At the end of each section, there will be a number of questions my research has led me to.