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Article Excerpt
Educational psychologist Frank Smith wrote that "Thought flows in ... stories about events, stories about people, and stories about intentions and achievements. The best teachers are the best storytellers. We learn in ... stories" ("Quotations," n.d.). Perhaps he is right about learning from stories, but not just stories from teachers. I was reminded just last semester how much I have learned from my students' stories and how much they have learned from their students.
The teachers in my introductory gifted education class came from a variety of backgrounds and school districts and were working toward different master's degrees. I had students from rich districts and poor ones, small ones and huge ones. My students came from Columbia, Mexico, Venezuela, and Guatemala, as well as from small towns and big cities in Texas. A few of them came from...
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