STANDARD 1: TEACHING DIVERSE STUDENTS

Standard 1 - Teaching Diverse students- The competent teacher understands the diverse characteristics and abilities of each student and how individuals develop and learn within the context of their social, economic, cultural, linguistic, and academic experiences. The teacher uses these experiences to create instructional opportunities that maximize student learning.

The reason I focused on gifted children is because gifted children are extremely misunderstood because when people think gifted children, they think those kids have it easy because they know everything but that is untrue. Gifted Children tend to be teased/bullied because they are either younger and can’t connect to their classmates of the same age or if they go to grades above their age, they get teased/bullied because they can’t connect with people older than them. More pressure is sent to gifted children from their parents because the parents put so much pressure on the child and although the child is gifted they are still a child and need to be able to live their life as a child and do the everyday things a child needs to do. Overall, gifted children are misunderstood, and people can’t relate to the fact that a child is gifted but a child overall, so being able to understand, do research and know gifted is different from talented in many ways. Talented is being able to do different things such as exceling in designing, art, sports, dance, music in which they are very amazing in those areas.