Gifted Learners & Mindplus
Definition from the New Zealand Centre for Gifted Education: Gifted individuals are those with innate high abilities and particular personal qualities that may be seen in different domains - intellectual first and foremost, and also creative, social, cultural, physical, spiritual.
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* Gifted children need a real challenge. They can easily skip through with average marks but, as they do so, may not ever build skills for facing challenges. This, in turn, can mean that when they do face a challenge, they are not prepared for it...and can crumble!
* Gifted students need options to share their strengths, e.g. opportunities to enjoy literacy, solve challenges and undertake reasoning and engineering activities for B, such as making the apple picker or putting together the class pencil sharpening machine. J needs opportunities for showing and proving his mathematical thinking.
* Giftedness quite easily co-exist with other neurodiversities (e.g. ADHD, visual or hearing impairment, dyslexia, dysgraphia etc). This is known as twice exceptional.
* For twice exceptional students, spending 80% of time in strengths and 20% in deficit area is ideal. They don't need more work, just different (challenge, meets their needs and allows them to play to their strengths).
* Three key characteristics of giftedness:
Asynchrony: students are and can feel 'out of step' with same age peers.
Intensity: this can be in learning needs, sensory needs, imaginations, emotions, motor responses (i.e. a need to move).
Exceptionality: they have exceptional abilities and sometimes, exceptional needs too. Students can be very aware of the differences between themselves and other learners.
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