[Ohiogift] finding a flexible mindset

[Margaret DeLacy]

Friends:

Below is an excerpt from and  link to a post entitled "Gifted and Talented: We Need a Flexible Mindset" By Peter DeWitt which appeared 
the Education Week "Finding Common Ground" blog on April 3, 2016 

"But the growth mindset! Effort! Grit! Resilience! That was what I needed! That was what my kids needed!

I soured on it the more I read about it. Don't tell your kids they are gifted? My dad had tried that and I hadn't understood why I easily grasped what other students struggled with. Praise effort? An English teacher had tried that, and I dared not let him know that my perfect grades involved no effort at all; I had fooled him."


http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/finding_common_ground/2016/04/gifted_and_talented_we_need_a_flexible_mindset.html?cmp=eml-enl-eu-news2-RM