What Teaching Gifted Is All About...

Posted by Alex Sharp Mar 7, 2009

I am lucky to truly love my job. I am reading a book outside my usual literary genres called Homespun Bride (it is one of the free Kindle books) by Jillian Hart and there is a line where one of the characters says, "You work hard, try to do what's right and at the end of the day rest up for another hard day at the ranch." I would say that describes teaching pretty well. I love it, and part of why I love it is because I work hard and I know that the challenge will continue.

We talked about Square Root Day, and my students immediately pointed out what I missed - which people also commented on with the article - some centuries will have more than 16, and 01/01/01 belongs on the list ( to be fair, I was just figuring out what would be th remaining days going forward).

The computer lab unexpectedly opened up and we were able to have some design time on Architect Studio 3D, among other computer games. That is so fun. Again, in 15 minutes some students did more than I could do in a week, but that's what teaching gifted is all about, right?