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M r. Carter passed the CPA exam in
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Bom and raised in Portland, he is a
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To Be Young, Gifted And
Encouraged
Continued from page 15
G ifted) program now includes 117 o f
the school’ s 1400 students. As soon as
they arrive at Tilden students are taught
“ critica l th inking ,” a Cass that Oat
man developed in collaboration w ith
experts from the U niversity o f N orth
ern Colorado. “ We need to teach our
children how to th in k ,” T ild e n ’ s prin
cipal, Dr. Hazel Steward, explains.
“ It’s not that they are not well-equipped
mentally. They can achieve as w ell as
students anywhere.”
For many o f these students, the
T A G program came as a not-necessar-
ily-pleasant surprise. “ 1 said, ‘ Y o u ’ ve
got the wrong g ir l,” ’ recalls Tashsa,
16. “ I thought, “ T hey’ ll get our hopes
up, and then what i f we can’ t do what
they want us to do?” ’ M any o f those
chosen fo r T A G -on the basis o f grades,
test scores or j ust ambi tion-m ight have
looked unpromising. Some are teen
age mothers or fathers; some are gang
members, or have been.
“ I f they’ re gang members, I go
after them w ith a vengeance to turn
them around,” Oatman says. “ I go out
on the street and call them over and
take them right out o f the gang i f I have
too.”
Last year, she got one teenage
mother into college. This year, she in
tends to place many more. “ I find
schools that can accept young m oth
ers,” Oatman says. “ They have day
care, and some have facilities so that
babies can live w ith their mothers.”
Principal Steward even worked to ar
range a scholarship fo r a top-ranked
student who is the father o f twins,
which helps keep father, mother and
children o ff the assistance rolls.
To prepare them to achieve, Joyce
Oatman first must teach her students to
think about how they think. * ‘ W e d rill
in m ajor higher-order thinking skills, ”
she explains. The day I visit, one class
is w orking on an exercise o f connect
ing a set o f dots to form specific pat-
tems-say, a triangle, a square and a
pentagon-with no dots left over and no
dot used twice. That may sound simple,
but try form ing eight specified shapes
out o f exactly 50 dots and see how easy
it is. “ I thought anybody could con
nect dots,” Tasha says. “ But then the
problems got harder and harder, u ntil I
was dreaming about dots.”
These mental gymnastics help pre
pare kids to use their minds fo r the
hard work they must do to be accepted
by first-rate colleges. “ I take biology
geometry, history, English and critical
thinking,” says Tasha’ s classmate
Candice. In Oatman’s program, stu
dents also must take physics and chem
istry, as w ell as two years o f a foreign
language, and fo ur years o f English
and math. They v is it the U niversity o f
Iow a’ s Connie Belin National Center
for G ifted Education for diagnostic test
and counseling and go on weekend
retreats w ith teachers to talk about is
sues that concern them. One group also
gives up it lunch hour to train fo r next
year’s American Academic Decathlon-
a nationwide competition o f talented
students.
Can this program work? It did for
eight kids at Crane .1st year. Already
this year at Tilden, students have been
admitted to schools like Illin o is Tech
and Northeastern. The U niversity o f
Iowa has volunteered staff and fa c ili
ties to help the T A G program develop,
and the Flom Foundation has given
T ilden a grant to buy computers for a
state-of-the-art lab. A fter school, Oat
man teaches other teachers at Tilden
how to deal w ith gifted students. She
and Principal Steward are planning to
extend those classes to teachers at other
inner-city schools next year.
You can see the results already, in
the form er gang member who says,
" I ’ m going to go to law school.” You
can see them in the pride in David
Philpot’ s eyes when he talks about the
changes in his daughter, N icole, 17,
since T A G began: “ She came back
from the trip to the University o f Iowa
w ith a goal, knowing what she wanted
and know ing how to get there. She
wants to be a psychologist. ’ ’
None o f these chtnges surprises
Joyce Oatman, though. A i’.er 34 years
o f teaching in some o f the nation’s
most neglected schools, she knows
exactly what she can expect t o in d in
them. ‘ ‘People need to know that th:re
are gifted children here,” she says.
“ People who live in the inner city, in
the barrio or on the reservation need to
know that their children are gifted.
There’ s too much native raw a b ility
going through the cracks. I f a child we
lose m ight have had the a b ility to cure
cancer but ends up jo in in g a gang ot
dealing dope, that’sudpuble loss to th»
country.”
That is a loss Joyce Oatman is
determined to prevent.
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