THE PROS
There are many advantages that come with being gifted. Looking back through the years all the teachers I've had have had gifted students whose footprints are still in the classroom,usually they are the examples for projects or the center of a great story. Even now, some of my gifted classmates are favorites of the teachers. You could say teachers favor gifted kids more only because they could always count on them for an answer, great effort, and the willingness to learn. Not only does being gifted make you favored among the teachers, it also makes school, easier. It makes whatever material you're learning faster, clearer, and easier to understand. Being gifted also allows you to experience things most students will never get the chance to. As we saw in class the other day, everything that was fun and challenging to us stuck with us all these years and most students can't say they did the same things as us.Most of those things were activities and projects were given to us in our gifted and talented class so most of our other classmates didn't get to participate and missed out. For this reason we are lucky and grateful.
THE CONS
Being "Gifted" is a blessing and a curse for Students:" But teasing is only one of the difficulties gifted children experience. Research also shows that they feel a constant pressure to excel at their work and,at times, even to help other children with their schoolwork". Being gifted has its disadvantage. The biggest disadvantage to being gifted is the pressure. Pressure from your parents;pressure from the teachers; but the biggest pressure is from myself. Teachers expect good grades, attitude and effort, parents expect High A's and I expect to do better each and every time I get a new assignment. Eventually, the pressure builds up to the boiling point and you can't take it anymore. I also feel pressure because I know some people don't like"smart" people. They think it's not cool and some of my friends have changed because of that. I feel some of them act as if they don't care anymore.I sometimes am scared to tell people I'm in ROGATE or get straight A's because some of our peers are judgemental.Teasing is another issue. When people call me smart but in a sarcastic way it makes me feel bad. And when I don't understand a problem my classmate expects me to know everything. The worst feeling is when you are paired with someone who needs your help and you can't help them. I guess I'm just sensitive because I want to exceed peoples expectations and I want people to like me but its hard when they judge you on what you know.
Asynchronous Development
A: not
Sync: together
Chronous: time
Asynchronous development is when you don't grow evenly pysically, emotionally, and intellectually. An example of asynchronous development is when you are mature intellectually but you not prepared to handle that knowlegde emotionally and physically you're young and weak too.
