【读书治学】一篇另个视角的GEP文章英文文章,很长。 但我觉得家长应该读一下,思考思考。最好还是去链接的文章,因为这里不能贴上图片。
http://ricemedia.co/tortured-geniuses-gep-kids-on-the-burden-of-being-gifted/
When you first see a meteor shoot across the night sky, you notice that the streak of light it leaves in its wake only glows for a brief, bright second.
The formative years of being a gifted kid can often feel the same.
Just ask Visakan Veerasamy, 27, who effortlessly made it into the Gifted Education Programme (GEP) when he was nine. After sitting for the national exam that would determine his placement within the top 1% of his cohort, he was relocated to St Hilda’s Primary School which taught the GEP curriculum.
Most GEPers (pronounced ‘jee-per’, the term for those within the programme) flourish under the subsequent academic rigour and go on to perform much better than average academically. However, Visakan ended up receiving a “criminally low” PSLE score of 245.
He was given a yea
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这文章的推论也是无语了
文章似乎把问题归结为这位同学进了GEP之后开始过于自信,等等。他不进GEP就不会过于自信?
GEP的家长们担心的正相反。这些小盆友以前都是轻松班上前几名,门门90多。到了GEP后,分数在及格线附近挣扎,名次也不容易再靠前。家长们担心的是他们的自信心会受到伤害。
GEP的家长们担心的正相反。这些小盆友以前都是轻松班上前几名,门门90多。到了GEP后,分数在及格线附近挣扎,名次也不容易再靠前。家长们担心的是他们的自信心会受到伤害。
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