#005: What It Really Means To Be A Gifted and Talented Student With Webber Charles
Meet Webber Charles, the director of student’s achievements for Breakthrough Miami where he helps students from low-income under-resourced areas of Miami-Dade County overcome barriers to academic success.
In this episode of Z-rated Success Podcast, Nick sits with Webber Charles as he shares his desire to recognize and impact talented and gifted students from low-income backgrounds.
Listen to hear how you as an educator can identify a gifted and talented student even without the gifted program in your school. You will also hear how as a parent you can contribute to the overall performance of your child in school by teaching them to be positively entitled.
“Equality and equity are not the same. Giving things out equally doesn’t mean you’re being equitable.”– Webber Charles [35:52]
Top Takeaways:
· The process of recognizing a gifted and talented student from a low-income background.
· Why social-economic status affects the ability of students in school either positively or negatively.
· Teaching children how to be positively entitled while in school.
· How to shift your mind and utilize the available curriculum to get your students to perform as those in gifted programs.
· Giving students opportunities, not because of their IQ but because they perform at a certain standard.
· How to curate your child to become a high impactful individual who works towards success.
· How your circumstances and chances affect whom you end up becoming.
Key Moments:
· [0:28] Intro
· [2:20] He describes how his experience with low-income students motivated him to do the work that he’s doing with students today.
· [6:11] Using a low-income student’s story to understand their gifts and talents as a teacher.
· [10:33] The factors to consider when identifying gifted and talented younger or older students.
· [14:26] The meaning of concerted cultivation and its relations to parenting.
· [19:50] How teachers can import their higher expectations of students in gifted programs into schools without gifted programs.
· [24:28] Why you need to start early with students and how to show them, love, if they’re older.
· [29:06] How to nurture your child both academically and socially.
· [37:42] How to get in touch with Breakthrough Miami and the benefits they offer.
· [43:45] How to access the Breakthrough program if not in Miami plus other organizations that offer similar programs.
Book Mentioned:
Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper-Class by Lawrence Otis Graham
Relevant Links:
Webber’s Contact Info
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/webber.charles
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Charliblac
Breakthrough’s Contact Info
Website: https://breakthroughmiami.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BreakthroughMia/
Nick Zizi
https://www.nickzizi.com
