What You Need To Know About Gifted Child
What You Need To Know About Gifted Children
What You Need To Know About Gifted Child
Giftedness is an intellectual ability significantly higher than average. It is a characteristic of children, variously defined, that motivates differences in school programming. It is thought to persist as a trait into adult life, with various consequences studied in longitudinal studies of giftedness over the last century. There is no generally agreed definition of giftedness for either children or adults. The various definitions of intellectual giftedness include either general high ability or specific abilities.
What You Need To Know About Gifted Child
For example, by some definitions an intellectually gifted person may have a striking talent for mathematics without equally strong language skills. In particular, the relationship between artistic ability or musical ability and the high academic ability usually associated with high IQ scores is still being explored, with some authors referring to all of those forms of high ability as “giftedness,” while other authors distinguish “giftedness” from “talent.”
Biblically, the life of Samuel and Our Lord Jesus Christ is an example of gifted children that we could reckon with as recorded in 1Samuel 2:18;3:1-8 and Luke 2:41-50 respectively.
There is still much controversy and much research on the topic of how adult performance unfolds from trait differences in childhood, and what educational and other supports best help the development of adult giftedness.
CHARACTERISTICS OF GIFTED CHILD:
-Generally, gifted individuals learn more quickly, deeply, and broadly than their peers.
– Gifted children may learn to read early and operate at the same level as normal children who are significantly older.
– The gifted tend to demonstrate high reasoning ability, creativity, curiosity, a large vocabulary, and an excellent memory.
– They can often master concepts with few repetitions.
-They may also be physically and emotionally sensitive, perfectionistic, and may frequently question authority.
What You Need To Know About Gifted Child
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