Hello, readers. In this page, I’m sharing my views and opinions on “gifted child”.
“Gifted children” are those who’re considered to be “gifted and talented”. A gifted child is one who has an exceptional ability to learn and they are meant to be having high level of achievement capability in intellectual, artistic, creative and in some other specific fields.Their IQ’s are found to be ranges from 115-180.
They basically don’t have an intensive attention in training when compare to other students but they have a very strong desire to learn more. Gifted students are present everywhere irrespecive of all geographical regions, racial and socioeconomic groups.
We have seen many people who have teased those children and not treated them as an equal being. As not being a gifted child, we got hurt when our friends or someother people would have teased us. Friends, just think, how those children will feel when they get teased by someone?.
Avoid teasing them and give all your support as much as you can, which will help them in such a way to achieve their goals.
Below shown image is such a very good example. He is a man who had faced a lots of difficulties when he was young but he’s now at the peak because of some wellwishers who had encouraged and motivated him.
Teachers play an important role in identifying the gifted children and they are the people who’re nurturing those children and recognizing their characteristics of giftedness among them.
They’re extremely bright and very quick in grasping the ideas and concepts.
They are facing lots of challenges in their daily life such as self-esteen issues– being gifted accademically can make a child feel different from other students and it may even lead them to get bullied and depressed. Parents have to keep an eye on their self-esteem and ought to teach them how to build a self-confidence, guilt– parents have to talk with the child, If the child begins to feel guilt about their giftedness, impatience– they can get frustrate and at sometimes they’re not much patience with themselves and with other people. They may fluster when they can’t able to understand a word in a book. Parents of those children have to teach them to get relax when they feel agitated, friendship issues– they find it difficult to have a friend, attention and organization issues, etc.,.
There are some early signs such as long attention span, high activity level, intense reactions to noise, pain and even to frustration, enjoyment and speed of learning, fascination with books, curiosity, sensitivity & compassion, unusal alertness and less need for sleep in infancy, etc.,. If a child exhibits a majority of these characterisics, parents may wish to have the child assessed by an experienced examiner to find out If the child is gifted.
Encourage them to do things they’re bad at- parents of gifted children have to encourage them. Avoid comparisons where possible- it’s really very important to avoid comparing them with their sibling or with any another bright children. Parents play an essential role in nurturing the gifted children.
The below shown image is just a difference between the “gifted learner” and the “bright child”.
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