Resources for Parents and Teachers
Unlocking Emergent Talent is a report that makes recommendations for practice, policy, and research for low income, high-ability children. You can read it by clicking on the link below.
A Nation Deceived highlights disparities between the research on acceleration and the educational beliefs and practices that often run contrary to the research. For more information on acceleration go to http://www.accelerationinstitute.org
A Nation Deceived highlights disparities between the research on acceleration and the educational beliefs and practices that often run contrary to the research. For more information on acceleration go to http://www.accelerationinstitute.org
Important Links For Teachers and Parents
#gtchat Resources
Chart Comparing High Achievers, Gifted Learners, or Creative Thinkers
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Characteristics of Students with Gifts and Talents
From the Wisconsin State Gifted and Talented Service Plan
During a child’s first five or six years some of the most commonly exhibited characteristics are:
General Intelligence
• Recalls facts easily
• Is very well informed about one or more topics
• Shows keen insight into cause-effect relationships
• Has exceptional ability to solve problems
• Has phenomenal memory
Intelligence in a Specific Academic Area
• Exhibits extended attention span in a particular content area
• Displays a passion for a topic of interest
• Makes independent contact with or carries on correspondence with experts in the field
• Puts extensive efforts into a project - time is of no consequence
• Manages to change a topic under discussion to the discipline of his/her interest (e.g., a discussion
on today’s weather soon becomes focused on meteorology or global warming)
Creativity
• Possesses strong visual thinking or imaginative skills
• Transfers ideas and solutions to unique situations
• Prefers variety and novelty and an individual way of solving problems
• Asks many and unusual questions
• Often has several projects going at once
• Resists external controls, tests and challenges limits
Leadership
• Relates to and motivates other people
• Organizes others for activities
• Demonstrates high levels of self-assurance when making decisions or convincing peers
• Sees problems from many perspectives
• Listens to and respects the opinions of others (or listens to and debates the opinions of others)
Visual/Performing Arts
• Shows very high ability in the visual arts, i.e., painting, sculpting, and/or arranging media in a
unique way
• Possesses unusual ability to create, perform, or describe music
• Possesses unusual talent in drama or dance
• Uses artistic ability to express or evoke feelings
• Persists with an artistic vision
During a child’s first five or six years some of the most commonly exhibited characteristics are:
- extraordinary vocabulary at an early age; varying sleep patterns and needs
- exceptional understanding of complex or abstract ideas
- precocity in math and language tasks – knowledge and behaviors that are not taught or coached,
- but surface on their own
- advanced sense of humor and understanding of jokes and puns
- heightened sensitivity to feelings and ideas
- amazing curiosity – questioning and touching almost everything
General Intelligence
• Recalls facts easily
• Is very well informed about one or more topics
• Shows keen insight into cause-effect relationships
• Has exceptional ability to solve problems
• Has phenomenal memory
Intelligence in a Specific Academic Area
• Exhibits extended attention span in a particular content area
• Displays a passion for a topic of interest
• Makes independent contact with or carries on correspondence with experts in the field
• Puts extensive efforts into a project - time is of no consequence
• Manages to change a topic under discussion to the discipline of his/her interest (e.g., a discussion
on today’s weather soon becomes focused on meteorology or global warming)
Creativity
• Possesses strong visual thinking or imaginative skills
• Transfers ideas and solutions to unique situations
• Prefers variety and novelty and an individual way of solving problems
• Asks many and unusual questions
• Often has several projects going at once
• Resists external controls, tests and challenges limits
Leadership
• Relates to and motivates other people
• Organizes others for activities
• Demonstrates high levels of self-assurance when making decisions or convincing peers
• Sees problems from many perspectives
• Listens to and respects the opinions of others (or listens to and debates the opinions of others)
Visual/Performing Arts
• Shows very high ability in the visual arts, i.e., painting, sculpting, and/or arranging media in a
unique way
• Possesses unusual ability to create, perform, or describe music
• Possesses unusual talent in drama or dance
• Uses artistic ability to express or evoke feelings
• Persists with an artistic vision