As a university academic in gifted and talented education with a fifth-floor office in the Tower Block, the age-old “ivory tower” analogy felt as if it were becoming all too real. Lecturing teachers on the principles of gifted education is fairly easy to do when you've read the books, attended the conferences, studied the research and so on, but the gap between my own teaching experiences and today's lectures was quickly widening.
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