heightened capacity for seeing unusual and diverse relationships.unusual capacity for processing information.unusually varied interests and curiosity.This child may be gifted cognitively (intellectual).Ĭognitive characteristics of the gifted child include: has his or her own ideas about how something should be done and stays with it.sticks to a subject long after the class has gone on to other things.completes only part of an assignment or project and then takes off in a new direction.seems to be a loner & seems bored and often has nothing to do.criticises others for dumb ideas & becomes impatient if work is not "perfect".
has a lot of information on many things.If a child is observed showing some of the following behaviours, he or she could be gifted: These characteristic differences are the source of the special educational needs of gifted children. The intellectually gifted child characteristically differs from the average child in cognitive, affective, physical, intuitive and societal behaviour. The list below is excerpted with minor edits from GROWING UP GIFTED: DEVELOPING THE POTENTIAL OF CHILDREN AT HOME AND AT SCHOOL, Second edition, by Barbara Clark, Merrill, 1983 Kanevsky, in The Tool Kit for Curriculum Differentiation, 1999.) Motivation: Persistent, intense need to know, do, feel, create, or understand.Moral and ethical concerns: Intense need for fairness and justice deep desire to take action to resolve injustices concern for consequences of their actions.Interests: Advanced, ardent perhaps for unusual topics passionate, sometimes fleeting.Learning: Able to grasp and use sophisticated new understandings quickly and easily.Intuition: Suddenly discovers connections or deeper meaning without conscious awareness of reasoning or thought.Problem solving: Outstanding ability to find systematic solutions to problems is able to invent and monitor many paths to a goal seeks challenges.Reasoning: Outstanding ability to think things through and consider implications or alternatives rich, flexible, highly conscious, logical thought.Expressiveness: Extraordinary ability to communicate meaning or emotion through words, actions, symbols, or media.Sensitivity: Unusually aware of or responsive to experiences and feelings, both their own and/or those of other people.Memory and Processing: Tremendous "brain power" for dealing with large amounts of information and skills.Inquiry: Probing exploration, deep questions experiments with events, ideas, feeling, sounds, symbols, movements, etc.Imagination and creativity: Extraordinary capacity for ingenious, flexible use of ideas, processes, materials or anything else.Humor: Exceptionally keen sense of the comical, the bizarre, or the absurd.In general, compared to children of the same age, gender, temperament and cultural background, the gifted, school-age child will exhibit some of the following behaviours more frequently, more intensely and for a longer period of time: Templeton National Report on Acceleration, 2004.) (Source: Colangelo, N., Assouline, S.G., and Gross, M. In very young children, giftedness may be indicated by: The Journey: A Handbook for Parents of Children Who Are Gifted and Talented (Alberta Government) – Note Chapter 2: Signposts Along the Way Looking for Children who may be Gifted What to Expect When…You’re Raising a Gifted Child (OAGC - Ohio) - Note page 7 This is far from being an all-inclusive list, and not every bright child has all of these characteristics.Īdditional indicators of giftedness can be found below and also on the webpages of other organizations such as these: special ability in one or more areas, such as music, art, science, language, computers, or mathematics.long concentration spans in areas of interest.ability to see connections between ideas.superior judgment and reasoning ability.unusual insight and intellectual curiosity.It is difficult to generalize, but many bright children have some of the characteristics listed below: Signs of Giftedness How can a bright child be recognized?Įach child is different.
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