According to Robert Sternberg, a leading authority on intelligence, there are three ways a kid (or anyone) can be intelligent. (And by the way, this would be good for all those kids and their parents who never pass an opportunity to announce how smart they are...which, uh... really isn't that smart of a thing to do.)
1) Be a practical problem solver.
2) Be verbally active.
3) Be socially competent.
I wonder how many of the kids identified by Johns Hopkins University as gifted have number three listed as their strength. More than I think, I hope.
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- Dan Powell
- "A teacher on the edge", "That horrible man", and "Brilliant" are actual quotes that have been used by others when regarding me. I am the author of One Man in His Time: a teacher, a method,and a madness, a book about my first ten years of teaching and how I became drawn to the sharpened side of oblivion divided by two. I have a fascination for math, but an expired interest in teaching the "school" variety. I prefer to dabble in and demonstrate its musings, you might say. I have a background in theatre, but an expired interest in it as well. I am a self-proclaimed Shakespearean but have never been in, nor wish to be in, a Shakespeare production. More often I mumble through soliloquies at public urinals, in the halls at school, at the copy machine, in my car on the way to work, and for unsuspecting telemarketers. I have what people call "soft" skills; So I will probably never be found welding, sawing, hard-wiring, or excavating. Although I have been known to excavate thoughts. I have a background in literature, psychology, and daydreaming (which is underrated, by the way). I am an introvert pretending to be an extrovert in order to survive.
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