This serves as an announcement
Headway School for Giftedness has an online education portal in edu20.org. (Click on above image to get there.)
"
What big plans we have!", one might ask. "
The better to involve kids in 21st century learning with", we might respond.
Labels: edu20.org, giftedness, HSG
What is giftedness?
Image credits: http://www.shulamit.info/Linda Silverman, Ph.d. weighs in:
"There is so much confusion about the meaning of this term, and so much denial, that the most gifted people reject the notion of being gifted."
Self-awarenes seems to be a good place to start. More
here.
By the way, in case you are curious about the funnel and cylinder metaphor, please follow Shulamit Widawsky's
article.
Labels: giftedness, Silverman
Are gifted children born or made?
Reminds me of a final examination question in Human Resource Management: "Are leaders born or made? Discuss."
Of course a good score depended not so much on the amount of references made in the answers but on the uniqueness of the essay response.
But I return to the blog entry title. One can imagine that "many parents would wonder, are
gifted children born or nurtured?"
I'm a big believer in not reinventing the wheel, so just follow this other article about
Gifted Children. You can even get an answer to the basic question "
Is My Child Gifted?"
Have a Happy and Gifted New Year!
Labels: brainy child, gifted child, giftedness
School of Giftedness in the Philippines?
We don't pretend to have a monopoly of answers to that question. But just to see what's available online, we can imagine someone would probably be searching with the following keywords:
school giftedness Philippines
Labels: giftedness, Philippines, school, SEO
Legislating giftedness
I got an email from my sister pointing to an online resource on Intellectual Giftedness. Here's the
link.
Now I've seen this and that about giftedness but I was intrigued by a "legal definition" from Texas, to wit, (legalese momentarily used here):
[The phrase] "gifted and talented student" means a child or youth who performs at or shows the potential for performing at a remarkably high level of accomplishment when compared to others of the same age, experience, or environment, and who (snipped)
- excels in a specific academic field." (74th legislature of the State of Texas, Chapter 29, Subchapter D, Section 29.121)
Nice to know that government extends formal recognition to children who could perhaps contribute immensely to human development and the national economy. And I'd like to believe that the giftedness label could be useful for allocating educational budgets to congressional districts. But I wonder if this would really promote meritocracy. For example, how would students with both giftedness and learning disabilities fit in. Perhaps insights from
this book could help?
Labels: giftedness, LD, politics, Robert Sternberg, Tina Newman
How do you test for Intellectual Giftedness?
Susan Hyde offers some answers. She identifies some typical traits:
- Intense Sensitivity
- Intensity of Interest
- Rapid Learning
- Advanced Vocabulary and Sense of Humor
- Early Reading
- Perfectionism
She then describes a variety of assessment approaches that may reveal specific areas of strength and weakness, twice exceptionality, and learning styles.
The bottomline seems to make sense, if you consider that traditional practices may be inadequate for a gifted child's appetite for "self-actualization":
"[G]ifted testing should be used to create individualized academic plans for students who need daily intellectual challenges in order to reach their potential.
Read more about Hyde's article
here.
As to the traits, I'm a bit curious about "Sense of Humor". Marcel Marceau comes to mind. Perhaps being a comic artist could be a sensible career for some gifted children? Seriously.
Labels: composite profile, giftedness, Susan Hyde
