{"id":937,"date":"2009-04-20T15:07:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T15:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/an-open-discussion-for-gifted-education-bragging\/"},"modified":"2009-04-20T15:07:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T15:07:10","slug":"an-open-discussion-for-gifted-education-bragging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/an-open-discussion-for-gifted-education-bragging\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open Discussion for Gifted Education: Bragging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quoted from <cite>http:\/\/rcmsgifted.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/bragging.html<\/cite>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"margin-bottom: 0;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcmsgifted.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/bragging.html\">  An Open Discussion for Gifted Education: Bragging  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<!--StartFragment--><br \/>\nWhen is it okay to brag about being super smart?<br \/>\n<!--EndFragment-->\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I get aggravated at some of the really smart kids at our school because they don&#8217;t want anyone to know they are smart.&#160; I&#8217;ve had discussions about it both privately and individually when it hit me a few years back, I tend to hide my smartness myself in order to get along with other people.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s face it, I teach computer science, when it comes to technology I am the smartest person in the room.<\/p>\n<p>So I make a concentrated effort to model proper &quot;smartest person&quot; in the room behavior.&#160;Being helpful, and demonstrating cool technology stuff to as many people as I can when I am NOT in my room.<\/p>\n<p>I also model good sports bragging behavior, as I am an active participant in dog agility.&#160; I do this by displaying my ribbons and sharing my accomplishments with people who are interested in such things.<\/p>\n<p>I think modeling behavior is very effective with students &#8212; though it takes a long time for it to have an effect. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quoted from http:\/\/rcmsgifted.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/bragging.html: An Open Discussion for Gifted Education: Bragging When is it okay to brag about being super smart? I get aggravated at some of the really smart kids at our school because they don&#8217;t want anyone to know they are smart.&#160; I&#8217;ve had discussions about it both privately and individually when it hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}