2. WHAT ARE
GIFTED AND
TALENTED
STUDENTS
Gifted and talented children” means those persons between the
ages of four and twenty-one whose abilities, talents, and
potential for accomplishment are so exceptional or
developmentally advanced that they require special provisions
to meet their educational programming needs. Children under
five who are gifted may also be provided with early childhood
special educational services.
Gifted students include gifted students with disabilities (i.e.
twice-exceptional) and students with exceptional abilities for
potential from all socio-economic and ethnic, cultural
populations. Gifted students are capable of high performance,
exceptional production, or exceptional learning behaviour by
virtue of any or a combination of these areas of giftedness:
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6. BARRIERS OF GIFTED AND
TALENTED STUDENTS
• Some Barriers to Creativity of Gifted
Students
• Barriers that Hinder the Identification of
Gifted Students
7. SOME BARRIERS TO CREATIVITY OF
GIFTED STUDENTS
• Repetitive teaching;
• Uniformity of knowledge;
• Teachers who are not prepared to
make a class that incite curiosity and
interest of learning of their gifted
students;
• Traditional process of teaching and
learning;
• Reductionist way of understanding the
educational context;
• Lack of creativity and innovation
during classes.
8. BARRIERS THAT HINDER THE IDENTIFICATION OF
GIFTED STUDENTS
• traditional view of education centered on the transmission of information
and not in reflection about knowledge;
• disrespect of differences and uniformity of knowledge;
• lack of sufficient challenges in the school environment;
• difficulty of recognition among educators about high abilities of their
students;
• gifted students with hearing impairment, neurological impairment, motor
impairment and other special needs;
• stereotypical expectations regarding deficiencies;
9. BARRIERS THAT HINDER THE
IDENTIFICATION OF GIFTED STUDENTS
• incomplete information about abilities;
• delays in physical and psychological development, asynchrony;
• unfamiliarity on the part of educators about multiple forms of enrichment,
with a view to the development of abilities of their students.
10. ACCOMMODATING GIFTED AND
TALENTED STUDENTS
• Identify gifted and talented
• Prepare stimulating environment of
creativity.
• creatively to awaken the interest of gifted
students and their willingness to learn
• know the interests and specificities of your
students
• Use Ludic teaching method