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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GIFTED/TALENTED CHILD

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GIFTED/TALENTED CHILD. DUKE TIP TOWN HALL SESSION December, 2009 Richard D. Courtright, Ph.D. Gifted Education Research Specialist. LEARNING CHARACTERISTICS. Sense of the significant Willingness to examine the unusual Powers of abstraction conceptualization

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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GIFTED/TALENTED CHILD

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  1. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GIFTED/TALENTED CHILD DUKE TIP TOWN HALL SESSION December, 2009 Richard D. Courtright, Ph.D. Gifted Education Research Specialist

  2. LEARNING CHARACTERISTICS • Sense of the significant • Willingness to examine the unusual • Powers of • abstraction • conceptualization • analysis, • synthesis

  3. LEARNING CHARACTERISTICS • Interest in inductive learning • View of the world as a series of problems to be solved • Enjoyment of intellectual activity • Interest in cause/effect relationships • Ability to see relationships • Interest in application of concepts

  4. LEARNING CHARACTERISTICS • Retentiveness • Verbal proficiency, extensive vocabulary, facility of expression • Breadth and depth of information • Critical thinking ability • Creativeness and inventiveness • Long attention span

  5. LEARNING CHARACTERISTICS • Intense concentration • “I’d rather do it myself” approach to solving problems • Intuitiveness • Independence in work and study • Versatility – many concurrent or intense consecutive interests

  6. LEARNING CHARACTERISTICS • Experimental approach to learning • Tendency to see the familiar in unusual ways • Early reading • Better, quicker learning of basic facts and skills • Ability to pick up on non-verbal cues and clues

  7. BEHAVIOR CHARACTERISTICS • Keen powers of observation • Willingness to examine the unusual • Well-organized, goal-directed behavior • Random behavior • High verbal ability • Intrinsic motivation • Inquisitiveness

  8. BEHAVIOR CHARACTERISTICS • Creativeness and inventiveness • Appreciation for new ways of doing things • Long attention span • Intense concentration • Persistence • Independence (“I’d rather do it myself”) • Sensitivity, intuitiveness, empathy

  9. BEHAVIOR CHARACTERISTICS • Ability to resist peer pressure • Ability to be conforming or non-conforming as the situation demands • Ability to integrate opposing impulses • Tendency to daydream

  10. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS • Naïve receptivity • Unwillingness to take things for granted; questioning attitude • Enjoyment of intellectual activity • Appreciation for consistency, structure and order (as in value systems, number systems, clocks, calendars, etc.) • Interest in reading

  11. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS • High tolerance for disorder, ambiguity, chaos • Skeptical attitude • Self-critical attitude in both: • Positive (self-esteem) • Negative (self-deprecation) • Positive self image • Creativity and inventiveness

  12. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS • Friendliness, outgoingness • Versatility – • excellence in many things • variety • versatilitly • Sense of humor, playfulness, relaxation or casualness in their products • Imagination, tendency to fantasize

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