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I'm in my second year of (English/History) teaching and have a unique problem with one of my students. This kid (9th grade) is very VERY smart and waaaaay ahead of any of his classmates. He doesn't act out or disrupt. he's just...bored. And I can't stand having a bored student. I hate it more than anything.
Lately I've had him help me come up with activites for the class, but I need some other ideas. I don't want to just give him extra work, but I want to give him something more challenging. I'm just not sure what.
Have any of you had this happen? How do you deal with gifted kids? Any ideas?
We guess you can read across the interwebs, around specialized sites for information & perspective.
Other than that, creativity is a key part in learning, one eye towards a future career would help, and try and watch out for the kid slamming into the "stunt" wall, where their interests in everything just stops and they try to cure their boredom through negative reactions.
Get him a book on taking the AP English or History exam and get him registered for it. I have a few kids every year get 5s on them. Keeps them on their toes.
I'll tell you what a teacher did for one of mine. She sent him to the school library to look up something that they were studying and make a report on it. She even did this for home work. She said that our home reference books were very good. Anyway, he didn't resent it, (I can see how some might) he enjoyed not having to sit there. He learned how to gather unusual facts, compose a short, informative essay about the subject which he then presented to the class.
I'm not sure about "bumping" him up. Boys that age are sometimes physically and socially inmature. Some don't do well with older, more mature kids. If he is small for his age, it can be a problem. Soooooo, it depends.
I'm not sure about "bumping" him up. Boys that age are sometimes physically and socially inmature. Some don't do well with older, more mature kids. If he is small for his age, it can be a problem. Soooooo, it depends.
The other problem with bumping him up is that he may NOT be equally bright in every subject. My ds was a math and science whiz, but he was just average in English and History (well, a little above average, but not really AP material or suited to being a grade ahead). We were fortunate to have him placed in the appropriate classes in each subject rather than having him placed a grade ahead.
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