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Gifted Student Overview

Gifted Student Overview. 2009 MAGC Convention Joe Ray and Nancy Underwood September 23, 2009. Success Medallions. Example of Medallion. Example of Medallion. Definitions of “Gifted”.

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Gifted Student Overview

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  1. Gifted Student Overview 2009 MAGC Convention Joe Ray and Nancy Underwood September 23, 2009

  2. Success Medallions

  3. Example of Medallion

  4. Example of Medallion

  5. Definitions of “Gifted” • Gifted and talented children are those identified by professionally qualified persons who. By virtue of outstanding abilities, are capable of high performance • They require differentiated educational programs/services beyond those normally provided by regular school programs in order to realize their contributions to self & society (Marland Report, 1972) • General intellectual ability • Specific academic aptitude • Creative or productive thinking • Leadership ability • Visual and performing arts • Psychomotor ability

  6. Definitions (continued) • A gifted person is someone who shows, or has to potential for showing, an exceptional level of performance in one or more areas of expression (NAGC) • Giftedness is asynchronous development in which advanced cognitive abilities and heightened intensity combine to create inner experiences and awareness that are qualitatively different from the norm • Asynchrony increases with higher intellectual capacity • Uniqueness of gifted renders them vulnerable and requires modifications in parenting, teaching and counseling in order for them to develop optimally (The Columbus Group, 1991)

  7. Definitions (continued) • “Intellectually Gifted Children” shall mean those children and youth who are found to have an exceptionally high degree on intelligence as documented through the identification process (Mississippi SDE Regs) • A student may be referred by a teacher, administrator, parent, peer, self or other person having reason to believe that the student may be intellectually gifted.

  8. Professional School Counselor’s Role in Gifted and talented programs • Assist in identification: multiple criterion • Advocate inclusion of and participation in activities addressing academic, career dev., and personal social needs of gifted students • Promote understanding/awareness of special concerns Underachievement Perfectionism Depression Stress Management Dropping out Delinquency Difficult Peer Relations Career Development Meeting Expectations Goal Setting

  9. Role (continued) • Provide individual and group counseling as needed • Recommend material and resources for gifted and talented students in meeting personal/social needs • Engaging in professional development services through which programming for the needs of gifted and talented students are regularly upgraded • Collaborating with other school personnel to maximize opportunities for gifted and talented students

  10. Myths about Social/EmotionalDevelopment • Gifted Students should be with students their own age • Being perfectly well-rounded is the primary goal of gifted student development • Being gifted means that things come easily; you never have to study or try hard in school • Everybody in the field of gifted education is an expert in the social/emotional development of gifted children • Parents, teachers, and administrators know what gifted students experience

  11. Myths (continued) • Being too smart in school is a problem, especially for girls • All kids are gifted/no kids are gifted • Gifted kids are like cream that rises to the top in the classroom • Gifted students are so smart that they do fine with or without special programs • Gifted and talented mean the same thing • Giftedness is something to be jealous about

  12. Characteristics of the Gifted that Tend to Screen Them out of Programs • Bored with routine; refuses to do rote homework • Difficult to get student to move to another topic • Self-critical, impatient with failures • Critical about self, of teachers • Often disagrees vocally with others and teachers • Makes jokes/puns at inappropriate times • Emotionally sensitive, over -reacts, gets angry easily, ready to cry when disappointed • Not interested in details; hands in messy work • Refuses to accept authority, nonconforming, stubborn • Tends to dominate others

  13. 8 Great Gripes of Gifted Kids(When Gifted Kids Don’t Have all the Answers, by Delisle and Galbraith) • No explains what being gifted is all about–it’s kept a big secret • School is too easy and too boring • Parents, teachers, and friends expect us to be perfect all the time • Friends who really understand us are few and far between • Kids often tease us about being smart • We feel overwhelmed by the number of things we can do in life • We feel different and alienated • We worry about world problems and feel helpless to do anything about them

  14. Asynchronous Development • Differences between gifted students’ intellectual (mental) ages versus their chronological or emotional ages • Gifted children develop in an uneven manner • They feel out-of-sync with age peers and 'age appropriate curriculum • Internal and external discrepancies increase with IQ • Gifted/special needs children develop in an even more extremely uneven manner

  15. Potential Problems of Gifted Students • Impatient with others • Dislike basic routine • Embarrassing questions • Strong-willed • Resistant to direction • Protests routine practice • Worries about humanitarian concerns (global warming) • Class clown • Bossy • Using words to manipulate • Intolerant • Perfectionist • Depression • Hyperactivity • Disruptive • Disorganized/scattered • Frustrated

  16. Counseling Ideals for the Divergent Thinker • Be honest about complexity of issues • Emphasize desire to understand • Help child build stronger sense of self • Help child learn to listen in a focused manner • Encourage a positive relationship

  17. Strengths of Gifted Students • Acquire and retain information quickly • Search for significance; inquisitive • Enjoy solving problems • Organize people • Large vocabulary • Keen sense of humor • High expectations • Intense concentration • Creative • High energy • Independent • Many interests • Emphasize truth, justice, and fair play

  18. Helpful Websites • Hoagie’s Gifted Education Page • http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/characteristics.htm • Joy and Loss: The Emotional Lives of Gifted Children • http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content4/joy.loss.eq.gifted.html • Characteristics Checklist for Gifted Children • http://www.austega.com/gifted/characteristics.htm • Characteristics and Behaviors of the Gifted • http://www.ri.net/gifted_talented/character.html • Characteristics of Giftedness by Linda Silverman • http://www.gifteddevelopment.com/What_is_Gifted/characgt.htm

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