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Introduction:
Every child is different from one another accordingly by physically, attitudes, achievement, race, personality, economic status, socially, etc. So this assessment talks about How to identify gifted and educationally backward students? And what are the programs adopted in schools to develop their intellectual ability?

Identification:
To identify the student I enquired about a college professor. He is Mr. Shiva, he is working as communicative faculty in Sacred Heart College. He said they have a module to evaluate students in LSRW (Listening, Speaking, Reading, writing) skills for English communication. In listening, they play audio to test their listening ability and they have a question regarding audio students have to listen to the audio and answer the question. In speaking they give a topic to speak and the instructor will check their communication. In reading they give passage to students and asking them to read the passage. In that the instructor checks their pronunciation, reading fast, punctuation, etc. In the end, they check their writing skill. Testing all the four skills then they bring the conclusion by diving the students into three categories that are fast learner, average learner, and a slow learner. Fast learners are asked to refer to books in a library. Then the instructor gives training to average and slow learners. They concentrate more on slow learners. They can be identified by attitudes, academic performance, IQ level, self-esteem, family background, relationships between friends or relatives, work efficiency, concentration, etc. According to these characteristics it distinguished by the identification of gifted and educationally backward students.

Gifted student:
A gifted student is known as supernormal and they possess the quality than normal learners. They are in high IQ (intelligence quotient) level, superior in general knowledge, a novelty in work, work efficiency, curiosity to ask a question and know the answer, concentration towards their works and confidence in performing an activity, attention towards the courses, etc. They have very good cordial relationships with classmates or relatives. Sometimes, they also have outstanding leadership qualities and even they can work under the pressure.

Educationally Backward student:
The educationally backward student is known as slow learners and they are low in achieving academic skills. Their IQ (intelligence quotient) level is low average or borderline. Due to low IQ levels, they are in low self-esteem, lack goal-setting and problem-solving, poor memorizing, lack of achievement, etc. Because of this characteristic sometimes, they may lead to taking the tendency of anti-social activities such as drugs, smuggling, alcohol, etc. Lower intelligence quotient obtained from the IQ test, which reveals the low intelligence is the cause of backwardness. Illiteracy of their parents may cause the backwardness of the student. Programs for gifted and educationally backward students in school In modern schools, they have adopted many programs for gifted and educationally backward students such as co-curricular activities, libraries, sports, yoga, curricular activities, computers, etc. These will give a holistic development to a student to enrich their knowledge.

Programs for gifted students
Most of the schools adopted the program for gifted students is the enrichment of instructional programmed: an abundant supply of books, laboratory equipment, and they can select illustrative materials that depend upon their goal. On the other side co-curriculum also gives verities of 4 activities, where they can develop various social and moral qualities. A school gives a challenging atmosphere to go deeper into their subjects. In the case of, any student shows an extraordinary achievement in their class they may give a double promotion. The goal of giving promotion to the student is to encourage and place the gifted student's incorrect recognition. In some schools, the strength of the student is high, they do grouping the students into various sections that are A, B, C, etc. They group the students according to the physical, intellectual and social interests of the students. Dividing the students into different sections always gives them a healthy competition.

Programs for educationally backward student
In school, the teacher must give very little criticism or sarcastic remarks to be given to the student. If a teacher may give a negative command about a student then it may affect psychology and they get into depression. Teachers have to repeat the information again and again to the student. They should give illustration to be simple and specific, and also an example should be given on a daily life basis. They are capable of achieving a moderate mark in academics though it takes more time to improve. As an adult, they are self-supporting, independent and socially adjust. They work best with a carefully guided, step by step technique and it takes more time to show their performance. Considerable repetition is usually necessary and material should be adapted appropriately for the slow learners. They need greater utilization of audio-visual aids. Learning should be done on a day to day life basis, not more than around academic subjects. Teachers should avoid any kind of completion or comparison between normal or gifted students and slow learners, it will create low self-esteem on learners. The teacher should avoid using words like stupid, idiot, the slow learner, the dull, backbencher. These may lower the child's self-concept, self-esteem and to great frustration and anxiety.

Conclusion:
In the end, I would like to conclude that, this world is lived by a mixture of people of superior, inferior, normal, abnormal, good, bad, etc. Therefore, both gifted children and educationally backward children have to face a social adjustment. So, the instructors have to train both gifted and educationally backward learners to give all abilities that are given routinely taught in the inclusive classroom settings that are not designed exclusively for the educational needs of the bright students.

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