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Chapter 15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Early intervention | The giftedness of young children presents special problems of definition, identification, programming, and evaluation |
| Transition to adulthood | For students with special gifts who are achieving near their potential, the transitions from childhood to adolescence to adulthood are typically not very problematic |
| Acceleration | Placing the students ahead of their age peers |
| Educational considerations | The focus of education is now on talent development across the full spectrum of abilities in particular areas of functioning. |
| Gender identity | Neglect a females is quite clear, but gender identity is also an issue in identification of individuals with special gifts and talents |
| Females | Females comprise the largest group of neglected students with special gifts or talents. |
| Under achievers | Identifying under achieving gifted students is very difficult, and part because no universally accepted definition exists |
| Students with disabilities | Students with special gifts and talents may have coexisting disabilities that interfere with their achievement in school or may even result in their specific abilities being overlooked. |
| Students from low socioeconomic status families | Children who are weird in poverty often lack toys, reading material, opportunities for travel and exploration, good nutrition and medical care, and many other disadvantages. |
| Children who live in rural areas | Children who live in rural or remote areas might not have access to many of the educational resources typically found and more populated regions. |
| Cultural and ethnic minority groups | Some ethnic groups, especially African-Americans and Spanish-speaking students, are under represented in programs for gifted and talented students. |
| Cultural and ethnic minority groups continued | Other ethnic groups, such as students of Asian descent are included in programs for gifted students more often than would be suggested by the percentage of the general population. |
| Leadership ability | According to the national Association for gifted children 15 states include leadership in their definitions of gifted and talented learners. |
| Special talents | Child prodigies our children who's development and accomplishments me or exceed those of adults with extraordinary talent. |
| Creativity or creative thinking | Creativity or creative thinking of the hallmark of several definitions of giftedness. |
| Anxiety | All those students who are gifted often have advanced emotional intelligence, this does not prelude them from experiencing other social emotional challenges. |
| High level of emotional intelligence | Students with intellectual gifts are often acutely sensitive to their own feelings of those of others, and they are highly concerned about interpersonal relationships, states, and moral issues |
| Social emotional characteristics | The self concepts, social relationships, and other psychological characteristics of students with special gifts or talents have been matters of considerable interest. |
| Psychological and behavioral characteristics | Giftedness has been recognized in some form in every society through recorded history. |
| Stanley's talent search model | Model developed by Julian Stanley in the 1970s, began with large scale testing of middle school students to identify those with mathematic precocity |
| Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences | Another theory of giftedness is that of gardeners"Multiple intelligences"he says there are seven types of intelligences, linguistic, logo mathematical, musical, kinesthetic, battle, interpersonal, and interpersonal intelligence. |
| Identification of giftedness | Measuring gifts and this is a complicated matter. Common methods of identifying gift in this include IQ test, standardize achievement test, teacher nominations, parent nominations, self nominations, and evaluations of student work or performance. |
| Prevalence | Federal reports and legislation have assumed that 3 to 5% of US school population could be considered to have special gifts or talents. |