All parents want their children to become confident; it’s a trait that has the ability to carry them forward and embolden them, but is embedded and shaped from a young age.
Schools and teachers play an important role in nurturing children’s self-esteem as they learn, which in turn helps them feel confident and achieve the best they can.
Selecting and streaming children through gifted and talented-type schemes, where the success of a few depends on the perceived failure of the many, does not help develop these traits.
It provokes anxiety, even among those who benefit from it, and resentment among those who don’t. It is neither a sensible, sensitive or creative approach to developing confidence or success in our students.
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