Photo by Erich Boekelheide
These parapsychology scholars are among 150 elementary and junior high school students
participating in one of three workshops offered this summer for gifted pre-teens
Program caters to ‘gifted’
By GINGER BARNES
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The young faces peering out
from under worn baseball caps
and lopsided pigtails reveal
nothing unusual about this pre
teen classroom
Not until the instructor begins
to speak of flexibility and as
sumptions, flow charts and
electrons, does the observer
become aware that these are
not ordinary junior high
schoolers
The children in this computer
programming class are students
at the University this summer,
participating in the Second An
nual Summer Enrichment Pro
gram for Gifted and Talented
Students
They represent the top 3 per
cent of students in Oregon
(although they are accepted
from all over the United States)
and have an above-average
measured intelligence
Nominated for their outstand
ing abilities in general intellect,
academic achievement, creat
ivity, leadership and the arts,
these sixth seventh and eighth
graders will take part in two
weeks of advanced learning and
living on campus
Education professor George
Shepherd created the program
a little more than two years ago
when he felt there was a need
for alternative programs for
gifted children
Some children want to pur
sue academics in the summer
and have only church and sport
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camps to turn to,” Shepherd
says ”1 felt the University was a
tremendous resource '
To demonstrate the interest
and need for his program,
Shepherd points out that 96
percent of the students who at
tended last year's two-week
sessions want to come back
Classes in everything from
parapsychology to mime are,
according to student evalua
tions, teaching these children
that an exceptional mind is
nothing to be ashamed of
‘ These evaluations reveal
what bugs the kids about
regular schools,” Shepherd
says
"One kid said, Tm not afraid
to be smart here ' They are with
true intellectual peers for the
first time who don't call each
other show-offs' or apple
polishers.’ ”
Social progress is just as im
portant in the program as
academic progress, Shepherd
explains "These kids are nor
mally popular and are leaders,
but are isolated intellectually
Here, there is a large mental
peer group from all over that
they can share with.”
Shepherd says he ap
proaches the students with
major concepts but lets them
use their own insights to draw
conclusions
"We have kids taking calculus
who haven't had algebra We
aren't going for geniuses, but
are just trying to stimulate their
interests so they can deal with
concepts — no matter what their
background
“We can provide more in
dividualized instruction here
that opposes the three R's' of
regular schools — ram,
remember and regurgitate."
The program accepted 450 of
600 applications received for
this summer s three two-week
sessions Efforts are being
made to avoid an “elite-type
situation," Shepherd says, so
gifted children from all families
are able to attend
About 25 students are here on
funds raised by private in
dividuals and by foundations
such as the Oregon Association
of Talented and Gifted Children
Each session — limited to 150
participants — costs $320 and
includes housing, food, instruc
tion and recreation. This sum
mer's program will continue un
til August 8
Student reactions to exper
iences in the talented and gifted
program all seem to be positive,
but one common complaint
sounds typically collegiate —
"the dorm food is really awful.”
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