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Characteristics of Gifted Students | ||||||||||||||||||||
Humor: Exceptionally keen sense of the comical, bizarre, absurd | ||||||||||||||||||||
Motivation: Intense desire to know, do, feel, create or understand.o | ||||||||||||||||||||
Interests: Ardent, passionate, sometimes unusual, fleeting. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Communication/Expressiveness: Extraordinary ability to convey meaning or emotion through words, actions, symbols, sounds or media. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Inquiry: Probing exploration, observation, or experimentation with events, objects, ideas, feelings sounds, media. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Problem Solving: Outstanding ability to bring order to chaos through the invention and monitoring of paths to a goal; enjoymnent of challenge. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sensitivity: Unusually open, perceptive, responsive to experiences, feelings, others | ||||||||||||||||||||
Intuition: Sudden recognition of connections or deeper meanings without concious awareness of reasoning or thought. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Reasoning: Outstanding ability to think things through and consider implications or alternatives; rich highly concious, goal oriented thought. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Imagination/Creativity: Extraordinary capacity for ingenius, flexible use of ideas, processes, materials. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Memory/Knowledge/Understanding: Unusual capacity to acquire, integrate, retain, and retrieve information or skills. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Learning: Ability to acquire sophisitcated understandings with amazing speed and apparent ease. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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* This
table was adapted from:
Maker, C. J., &
Nielson A.B., (1996) Curriuculum development and teaching
strategies for gifted learners. Austin, TX:
PRO-ED, Inc.