#honors program

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proudly and openly lame

[fxckaroundandfindout]

Growing up one of the “gifted” kids really sets you up for failure. I’d be reading three books and be done with them all in a couple of days and run out of things to read. I was always taught that I was smart so I did my best and I don’t know if I had an identity besides trying to keep up my grades. I was a model student. I always had A’s and I was willing to help anyone I could. And now? After I graduated with honors, dual enrollment, beta club, and Spanish honors society, I lay in bed in pain all day wondering why I squandered my young days worrying about grades and testing. I really wish I got to be more of a kid. But that’s a different story. Us “gifted” kids are fucked up and don’t know what to do because all we knew was how to be smart.

[lookingfordrachenaut]

Guess who just got accepted to their transfer university's Honors program?

Yeah.

I was surprised too.

[iowacitypast]

Shambaugh House at its original location at 219 North Clinton Street, The University of Iowa, August 1956

Creator: Kent, Frederick W.

Source: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3Aictcs_16695

[azombietale]

So I’ve been seeing a lot of posts lately about “gifted students” and how we’ve all crashed and burned out as we got older because we were unable to deal with tasks that demanded more effort or attention. I think its all a load of crap and I’ll explain.

In my school, growing up we had a club called project THINK wherein all of the “top” students met a couple times a week to do higher level topics, play games, solve puzzles, and participate in brain teasers. I was in this club, as were many others, and every single one of the students who graduated top ten of my class was in this club in elementary school. Mind you, we’d been identified as gifted and talented, some of us, myself included, as early as the third grade. A handful of those kids however, dropped off and ended up actually only ever being average. Those kids, were falsely identified as gifted.

I think the issue here is that some children will learn to read and to do math faster than others, and typically this points to having higher mental functioning but sometimes kids just learn certain skills faster but aren’t necessarily good at actual, useful, higher skills. Having been falsely identified, these kids then feel as though they’re supposed to be good, or they’re supposed to be able to do that, and when they fall behind they become increasingly anxious. They were never gifted, but somebody somewhere made a mistake and that mistake unfortunately had consequences on the child’s psyche. I think the real takeaway is that we should be more hesitant to tell kids they’re gifted until we really know. (For the record, I’m a nursing student with a 4.0 GPA in another, college level honors program and as stands I can personally assure you that there are STILL kids even at this level being falsely indoctrinated into these “gifted” programs considering almost NONE of them even made dean’s list, much less got anywhere close to a perfect GPA, and its as frustrating for me to be slowed by them as it is for them to feel like failures)

[missasmagickmag]

Teachers of Tumblr:

Hello! 

First off, to my followers that are not teachers, I apologize.

 Second...I am looking for teachers/education students to take a survey for a college research project. (I am studying predominantly Finnish and American educators, but others are encouraged to participate).

I am a senior education student as well as an honor student. In order to graduate with honors I must conduct a research study related to my major. I am studying the differences between American and Finnish education systems. For my study I have created an anonymous survey to hear your opinions / experiences as educators....

HERE is the link to the survey.

Please share this with your teacher friends / reblog / participate. I need all the help I can get!

Thanks everyone! 

[winteraurora]

So sad my college's honors thesis will probably be phased out by the time I'm a senior. I was hoping to use it as a way to pitch my manifesto for my fictional world and see the likelihood of it being believed.

[jebwizard]

The Inequality of Equity

A troubling new trend is gaining ground across this country. While the goal—equal access to quality education—is both laudable and crucial, the means to achievement is disingenuous and fraught with contradiction. It seems in pursuit of equity in education, some schools are eliminating honors programs. The argument that minority students are underrepresented in proportion to their numbers in the…

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