Are you ready for a gifted kid?

Many parents are interested in a question: Is my kid a gifted/talent kid? Following are some information I got from a seminar in my daughter's school.

Traits of giftedness:

1.  Heightened perceptual skills. Child is acute aware of and responsive to his/her environment.
2. Intense curiosity.
3. Unusual motivation and perseverance.
4. Drive to organize and perfect. Setting impossible high standard for self.
5. Advanced problem-solving ability and conceptualization.
6. Search for challenge.
7. Originality and humor. Child puts elements together in new ways, uses new approached to task, often displays keen sense of humor.
8. Resourcefulness and independence. Child seeks his/her own direction, is self-initiating.
9. Fondness for elaboration.Child loves to embellish by adding on to ideas, responses and solutions. Generates alternatives, concerned with detail.
10. Acute sensitivity. Reacts strongly to moral and social issues, feel joy,pain injustice, sarcasm and rejection keenly. this may make child more painful for some issues than regular kids.

Characteristics of gifted kids

Behaviors      
                                   
1. Bored with routine tasks, refuses to do routine homework;not interested in details; hands in messy work; make jokes at imaginative
inappropriate time

( This behavior) Associate with Creativity:
High tolerance, independent and divergent thinking, risk taking,sensitive

2. Refuse to accept authority, non conforming stubborn, difficult to move to new topic, emotionally sensitive--may over react.
gets angry easily.

Associate with motivation:
Persistence in interest area, intensity of feeling and values, independence

3. Tends to dominate others, often disagree vocally with others and teachers about ideas and values, self-critical, impatient
with failures, critical about others and teacher.

Associate with critical thinking:
See discrepancies between idea/truth/expressions. Set high standards. Capable of analysis and evaluation.


Some non-angelic behaviors

1. Shows great curiosity, ask many questions and drive teacher and others "up-the wall".
2. Has Many different interests and hobbies.
3. Attends to different lessons ans tasks far behind normal kids.
4. Exhibits a high-energy level to some specific tasks.
5.  Show advanced reading, writing, language and math skills. like to improve their skills by working alone.
6. Has an exceptional memory for details.
7. Develop imaginative and original solution to problem.
8. Ask "why" often and really wants to know the answer.

Problems gifted kids often have
1. Critical attitude to others and themselves.
2. Stubbornness.
3. Need for success and vulnerable to peer group rejection.
4. Escape into verbalism
5. Dislike of routine and drills.
6. Resistance to direction.
7. Easily frustrated.
8. Pressure from adults, teacher and parents often leads to rebellions.
9. Gullibility
10. Invention of own system somtimes causes conflict.

Website for more information:
www.gt-cybersource.org
www.gtworld.org
www.hoagiesgifted.org
www.nagc.org

Are you ready to take care of your gifted kid after so many possible problem? Is your knowledge enough and your emotion strong enough to handle a gifted kid?  來源