Education

Running head: Education
Education
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Running head: Education
Every children is unique in their own ways and teaching styles must adapt to the
needs of the students. It is very important for teacher to recognise the uniqueness or rather the
giftedness in the young children. In the essay named “Against School” by John Taylor Gatto,
there is an illustration of how the present curriculum only generates boredom for both the
parties. Lack of innovation and updated teaching techniques does not help the children to
learn new things, rather it becomes repetitive and the students losses the interest in the
education system, thus there is an increase in the dropout rates. The present schooling system
only provides the opportunity of standardizing the scope and horizons of the learners. In
order to acknowledge the giftedness of the learners it is very important for the educators to
respond to the educational needs of the learners, before they diminish and become less
recognizable. Giftedness does not mean anything that is supernatural in its limits but it refers
to the precocity of the child. This refers to the smartness or the skills that emerge in the child
earlier than the usual age. Giftedness can vary in the child, it can be based on early academic
pursuit, it can be behavioural, like asking for more information. Interests will vary, some will
find likeness in music and may be interested to play any particular instrument and some may
even spur their creative skills. Most of the time the teachers or the schooling organization has
shied away from any intervention strategies because it is very difficult to identify such
talents. The most effective way to understanding such talents is by implementing variety of
approaches over an extended period of time. Testing or examination may not always because
the motor and the cognitive powers may active in many one time and it not be active in other
times. Thus treating can give falsified results. For a more accurate and complete picture, that
would involve observations of behaviour, their verbal ability, gathering anecdotal information
from the parents and by contemplation the development for the child by understanding the
children product like artwork, inventions, Lego building, style of narration and so on.

Running head: Education
For understanding the uniqueness in the child, it is important to list out the essential qualities
that will help one to find the gifted child. One must let the child experience realities without
monitoring them, following the Malaguzzi (Reggio), in this way both the child and teacher
will learn rather than standardizing the learning pattern. The teacher needs to focus on the
behaviour of the child embedded in the everyday life activities like daily conversation,
activities and responses to learning opportunities and so on. The list can include elements
like, the level of curiosity the child can exerts or the thoughtful questions the child puts
forward. It can also be the level of imagination the child, portrays or the pace in which the
child learns new things. The list can be huge and exhaustive. After creating one such list, it is
important for the teacher to consult it with the respective parents. Studies show that, in 80
percent cases the giftedness of the child is noticed by the parents. Children especially at the
age of five, six, and seven tends to show such traits, and since parents live in proximate
position with the child, they become realistic predictor of the abilities of the children.
Therefore, it is very important for the teacher to connect with the parents as well as with the
young learners.
The ranges of teaching strategies and approaches is based on the idea children have
the competent behaviour and they are independent learners. However, for an assignment I
have chosen the Malaguzzi (Reggio), because this approach tries to understand the specificity
of the child embedded in participate cultural framework (Wilson & Zoellner 2016). The
development stage of the child is no longer demarcated by developmental stage because it
damages the free flowing nature of the children.in this approach the teacher is also a co-
learner in the process and the personality is studied based on its connection to the natural
environment. However, this kind of approach is based on the proper documentation of the
development chart of the child (Kaye 2016). Documentation not only helps in understanding
the progress of the child by it also serves a future references. This philosophy of teaching is