For more information
on giftedness and gifted children visit the Association for Bright Children website: www.abcontario.ca.
, International Handbook for Research
on Giftedness and Talent, pp. 525 - 538.
* articles
on giftedness & learning differences * profiles of experts, organizations, and resources * columns that offer insight into living and working with twice - exceptional children * research findings, trends, news and events * conferences * book reviews and recommendations
By Linda Silverman, an expert
on giftedness and testing, and speaker at Helios» Fall 2011 event, «The Unique Inner Lives of Gifted Children: What Educators, Parents, and Therapists Should Know.
And for information
on giftedness in Young Children, read The Young Gifted Child for telltale signs that young gifted children often exhibit.
Insist
on the giftedness of some of your poorer students.
Egalitarianism (also known as «mutuality»): Christians who identify as egalitarian usually believe that Christian women enjoy equal status and responsibility with men in the home, church, and society, and that teaching and leading God's people should be based
on giftedness rather than gender.
Not exact matches
Unfortunately, from the perspective of modern psychology, genius or
giftedness depends
on a Nietzschean amor fati.
To deny females equal authority not because of their character, their intimacy with Christ or their
giftedness, but solely because of gender — a fixed and unchangeable condition — creates communities, organizations, churches and marriages that are inherently unjustbecause they deny a people group shared authority based
on an unchangeable condition - gender.
He starts with an explanation of what
giftedness is — and is not, then moves
on to discuss inclusion and other school issues affecting gifted children, perfectionism, and underachievement.
My research drew
on classic areas of psychology such as
giftedness and expertise, following the steps of other researchers who have examined the developmental activities of the world's highest achievers across a range of domains from science to music to sport, sparking classic «nature versus nurture» debates.
I think part of the problem is that I don't know where I'm at
on the «recuperation vs. natural «
giftedness» continuum.
Inspired by the positive psychology movement championed by Martin Seligman and others and highly interested with the possible scientific components of socially - constructive
giftedness, Renzulli embarked
on a quest to discover what gives rise to this condition.
The fact that a child possesses
giftedness in some area provides teachers with the opportunity to capitalize
on that particular strength or strengths when designing the appropriate level of services.
Pre-service teachers, says Peters, typically get one day of training
on gifted students, which may not prepare them to recognize
giftedness in its many forms.
«
Giftedness» can look very similar to «disability» when your focus is
on looking for problems rather than unusual abilities.
This inspirational and practical guide includes chapters
on whole language, hands -
on - math and science, music, drawing,
giftedness, testing, the role of the home in learning, technology, cooperative learning, and Montessori and Waldorf education.
For example, teachers of color can better identify and promote
giftedness in students of color: These students score higher
on standardized tests when taught by teachers of color.
This opinion piece is written based
on our gradual «discovery» of Simbuilder's profound
giftedness during his experience at one private school that he attended.
Instead of relying
on intelligence and achievement test scores solely for identification, multiple criteria would be used, including more non-traditional measures such as observing students interacting with a variety of learning opportunities (Passow & Frasier, 1996) it is a belief of many in the field of gifted education that new conceptions of
giftedness and a new paradigm for identifying and selecting students will help minority and disadvantaged students become more represented in gifted programs (VanTassel - Baska, Patton, & Prillaman, 1991; Ford, 1996).
Our understanding of
giftedness is based
on the definition developed by the Columbus Group, a collection of the leading researchers in gifted education, 20 years ago:
Equally accessible to the parent as the teacher, and written by a recent pioneer in the field, Gifted 101 dispels common myths about
giftedness, challenges the view that eminence is the true signifier of
giftedness, provides support for the twice exceptional, offers specific guidelines to parents and teachers, describes comprehensive assessment of the gifted, and focuses
on the complex inner world of the gifted... a «must read.»
You would think, from the authors» refreshingly honest description of how little we know about
giftedness, that they would recommend we move
on to programs with better data and more support, such as ensuring that every fourth - grader can read.
It is ironic, therefore, that two major developments in the allied fields of psychology and gifted education — the revision of a major test of intelligence, and an emphasis
on expanding conceptions of
giftedness — should combine to inadvertently penalize those children who have been viewed historically as most in need of special education programs for the gifted.
The effects of acceleration
on the social and emotional development of gifted students, also in Social / Emotional Aspects of
Giftedness
I'm going to go out
on a limb and say might it not be the level of
giftedness that determines a self - contained gifted class?
A better, quicker solution to reducing the racial gap in gifted classrooms, according to Grissom, is to test every child in the school system for
giftedness, so that you're not relying
on subjective humans to decide whom to test.
«When schools focus
on just the educational aspect of
giftedness and the general expectation for the gifted student is to be high - achieving and receive high scores...»
When schools focus
on just the educational aspect of
giftedness and the general expectation for the gifted student is to be high - achieving and receive high scores, then gifted children are seen only in light of what they can achieve academically and not who they truly are.
The timing of an evaluation can mean the difference between a student being identified as gifted or disabled, because while
giftedness can mask a disability early
on, over time, the disability can hide a student's strengths.
The thing I did want to note is that while
giftedness is rare, and depending
on the definition, only found in 2 % -5 % of the population, but that isn't evenly distributed.
Moreover, a reading disability may hinder the development of an academic gift because of focusing
on the disability and neglecting growth and challenge in the areas of
giftedness.
The student demonstrated intellectual
giftedness as evidenced by any of the following: standardized achievement test scores (90th + percentile), scores
on tests of general aptitude (125 + IQ), or other objective and subjective indicators of potential for well - above - average academic performance.
«Reliance
on teacher referrals can disadvantage students of color if teachers hold lower expectations for them or are less likely to recognize
giftedness in such students,» the researchers wrote.
The exciting advances in research
on brain functioning, coupled with the realization that a child's intelligence is only one key to understanding
giftedness, have underscored the importance of studying all characteristics of the gifted child.
ELEVATE, short for «English Learner Excellence eVolving through Advanced Teacher Education,» reflects the program's focus
on training teachers to better recognize potential
giftedness.
This dual status can make these youth more vulnerable to verbal and physical abuse at school than either
giftedness or gender / sexual minority status would
on its own (Manzella, 2012).
The reasons are complex and include an overreliance
on standardized tests, narrow conceptions of intelligence and the resulting definitions of
giftedness, and the procedures and policies that guide local and state gifted programs.
Her current interests focus
on the reasons underlying children's academic struggles, such as learning disabilities,
giftedness, poor motivation, anxiety, developmental disability, etc..