m******1
发帖数: 86 | 1 Hi, board.
My daughter is in 2nd grade right now and would like her to jump grade in
this coming fall. Already setup an appointment with school principle and her
teacher. Would like to utilize the great think tank in this board on how to
prepare the case, no matter you have successful stories or some lessons.
I knew some parents here may have different understanding to jumping grades,
but to my daughter, this is definitely a smart move. She is clearly
advanced mentally, academically and socially. In addition, instead of
pushing kids like most parent do, our job (including teacher) is to slow her
down. She start to have bad habits of being arrogant (always complaining
the school is too easy) and losing interest/focus in class.
As to GT, personally don't like the idea as it's just postpone the problem.
So unless you have convincing points to share, please keep this topic
focused on how to convince principle to make the decision. Greatly
appreciate your help! | d*******e
发帖数: 863 | 2 其实 convince principal 不应该是重点。一定会有一些测试。如果 principal 不同
意，一定有他的理由。还是希望家长能够 open minded，不要太 determined 觉得跳级
一定是好事儿，跳级了就可以解决问题。（抱歉中英文混杂，怎么省事儿怎么说了。）
GT 不是你理解的超前学。我们这里的 GT Program，可课程内容可以说一点关系没有。
教很多比如思维方式，比如最近学习鸟，结构、种类。也是二年级。
Arrogant 和 advanced 不是完全正相关，跳级解决不了这个问题。
Slow her down 完全没有必要。求知欲是好事，应该保护和鼓励。可学的东西很多，不
要只局限于英文数学。如果她单科很强，且有兴趣，多学也很好，我们周围有三年级小
孩儿学六年级数学的。
并不是一味反对跳级，只是说顺其自然，不用觉得需要尽力说服校长。你说的孩子的情
况，并不是不跳级就一定不能解决的。 | g*********9
发帖数: 3528 | 3 老师的意见呢？
他们的角度不同，如果看法和你类似的话，主要重点就是挑一个好的4年级老师了。
如果他们有不一样的意见，认真考虑一下，把这个机会看成家长和老师之间的交流，而
不是谁说服谁。毕竟都是为了孩子好，父母看的不一定准。
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【在 m******1 的大作中提到】
: Hi, board.
: My daughter is in 2nd grade right now and would like her to jump grade in
: this coming fall. Already setup an appointment with school principle and her
: teacher. Would like to utilize the great think tank in this board on how to
: prepare the case, no matter you have successful stories or some lessons.
: I knew some parents here may have different understanding to jumping grades,
: but to my daughter, this is definitely a smart move. She is clearly
: advanced mentally, academically and socially. In addition, instead of
: pushing kids like most parent do, our job (including teacher) is to slow her
: down. She start to have bad habits of being arrogant (always complaining
| l*****n
发帖数: 1274 | 4 Skip grade, sounds more right. | m******1
发帖数: 86 | 5 Update:
have the first meeting with the principle and the teacher this afternoon. I
had done a lot preparations and set up a stage for a constructive/friendly
fight: excellent academic/afterschool performance, advanced mental
matureness, family tradition, social development, projects, reference and
anything I can find.
As expected, the principle started with strongly against grade skipping as
she never did it in her long term education career, especially her 12 years
as principles. The teacher changed her tone immediately after that. The
principle had the following 3 reasons:
1.My daughter is already younger than average kids in her class because her
birthday is close to cut off.
2.There are plenty of GT resources around and she think my daughter is an
ideal fit for GT special school.
3.She will work with teachers (current & future) to ensure my daughter have
enough academic challenge at school.
I countered by my daughter is already well in grade 4 level and she had been
doing very well when with older kids. Staying in her current program is not
challenge enough and is not good for her long term development as she start
to show signs of being arrogant. My goal for my daughter is to have a
complete package with academic excellent, pleasant personality and social
keenness. Skipping grade is a much less risky option than GT program. My
family had the tradition of skipping grade and the whole family are more
than prepared to support the transition…..
Have to say this is a really tough hour as I have to balance between
fighting hard and maintaining constructive relation. However, I’m positive
the goal of an excellent first impression is executed perfectly. The
principle promise to pay more attention to my daughter and setup a game plan
with me to enrich my daughter’s curriculum. She even mentioned to revisit
this topic later.
This will be a long battle and my focus at this point is to get the ball
start rolling. Hopefully one day I can bring the principle to the same page
of mine. I’m also exploring alternative options like changing school & etc
.
This is a losing nothing battle. However, I still want to squeeze most juice
from it. | i*******t
发帖数: 499 | 6 Here is a good place to look for information on skipping grades.
http://giftedissues.davidsongifted.org/BB/ubbthreads.php/forums
People there strongly support grade skipping and talk about their
experiences on skipping grades. | i*******t
发帖数: 499 | 7 Principal 和老师也不一定对
他们没什么对付牛娃的经验。牛娃对他们来说可能是麻烦。
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/underserved.htm | R*********i
发帖数: 7643 | 8 Ever considered home school? | b**s
发帖数: 908 | | b********t
发帖数: 5261 | 10 进来仰慕一下，我觉得我的智力水平不足以给lz提建议。 | g*********9
发帖数: 3528 | 11 既然他们没有什么对付牛娃的经验,
那就找一个有对付牛娃经验的地方。
这样子你也不用fight了,牛娃也不至于被他们耽误。
【在 i*******t 的大作中提到】
: Principal 和老师也不一定对
: 他们没什么对付牛娃的经验。牛娃对他们来说可能是麻烦。
: http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/underserved.htm
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