[Oz-gifted] computer competition

[Deidree McMaster]

On 04/04/2006, at 11:20 PM, Sandy Horne wrote:

> Having said that, as with most tests, it's important to make the test
> sufficiently difficult so that few get a perfect score. But there will 
> indeed
> be Year 3 students who would have been able to breeze through this
> competition. Not many, but a few. The test would be meaningless if
> most kids aced it.

It's important for gifted kids to learn how to fail: to pick themselves 
up and get back on track: perhaps you could mention that usually she's 
lucky, being gifted, that she 'just knows' things, but that it's 
important also, to learn how to deal with 'not knowing'?
This 'failure' may rankle now, but It will stand her in good stead 
later on in life, I'm sure!

Deidree McMaster