Gifted students often feel trapped in classrooms that lean on traditional curriculums and teaching methods that cater to the average student. But gifted students are not average. Each of them is unique and has his or her own strengths, interests, obsessions, passions, and sometimes, learning difficulties. As a group, gifted students comprehend complex ideas quickly, … Read More
All students, not just gifted ones, learn differently. They all have a right to the best education possible for each of them. Gifted students present special challenges for the classroom, however, because of their unique combination of advanced intelligence and singular perception of the world in which they live. They see things and feel things … Read More
It’s back to school time, a time of excitement and a time of anticipation. For gifted kids, it’s also a time of anxiety and even foreboding as they see another year of frustration, bullying/intimidation, embarrassment, and more problems with peers, teachers, and parents. Your child is gifted. You want him or her to love learning … Read More
Gifted students are gifted learners whose individual styles and approaches to learning are different from the normal population of students. For them to be successful, their curriculum should be designed to take advantage of their intelligence, curiosity, passion, focus, ability to absorb information quickly, and commitment to perfection. Not many students reflect this profile. But … Read More
Educators of gifted children face many challenges today not the least of which is keeping them interested, engaged, and motivated in a traditional classroom environment. There is such a wide range of giftedness, learning styles, maturity, and social development (not to mention a diverse curriculum) that makes it difficult for a teacher to provide opportunities … Read More
Gifted students are bright, curious, passionate, and driven to become engaged in a subject to the point of exhaustion (mostly that of the teacher). They simply want to know everything they can about a subject. And they quickly connect what they learn to other situations, to the real world, to other types of problems where … Read More
