Articles
Visual-Spatial Learners
New book by Alexandra Shires Golon, with differentiation strategies for teachers of visual-spatial learners.
12 Traits of Giftedness
Mary Ruth Coleman, Ph.D, chart describing common gifted traits and what they may look like in the gifted population.
High Achiever, Gifted Learner, Creative Thinker
Characteristics of three types of learners, adapted from Bertie Kingore.
Dabrowski's Overexcitabilities
Discussion of five areas of increased sensitivity and intensity commonly found in gifted individuals.
Gifted Children
Article about young gifted children by Early Years Advisor, Brenda Casey
Characteristics
The list below includes some typical characteristics and behaviors of gifted children, both positive and negative. One hallmark of gifted children for instance, is asynchronous development, where intellectual, physical and emotional maturity progresses at uneven rates. Children may have the intellectual ability of a 7 year old and the emotional maturity of a 4 year old. You may recognize some of these characteristics in your son or daughter. Click on the links to the left for find more information about the characteristics of gifted people.
Observable characteristics of giftedness iclude:
- Self taught, non-sequential learner
- Resists class routine & drills
- Naive
- Over-Excitabilities
- Rapid Learner
- Perfectionist
- Extensive Vocabulary
- Preference for older companions
- Early reader
- Finding non-conventional solutions/originality
- Noticing what no one else does
- Capacity for abstract thought, before having the emotional ability to handle it
- Asynchronous development
- Challenges authority