This document discusses giftedness, including positive and negative characteristics of gifted individuals. It notes that gifted people have superior intelligence, ranging from 120-150 IQ or higher. Positively, they are curious, enjoy learning, and excel in various areas. However, they may also be inattentive, critical, or disagreeable. The document outlines types of gifted learners and recommends enrichment programs, challenging curriculum, counseling and mentoring to support their needs. Finally, it emphasizes that teachers of gifted students should be flexible, helpful, knowledgeable and inspiring mentors.

2. The
Muslima P. Liwalug

3.  The Giftedness
 Positive Characteristics
 Negative Characteristics
 Need for Enrichment Programs
 The Teacher’s Role

4. - a person who has special ability
in art or music, mechanical
ingenuity, or leadership

5.  Superior
- 120 to 125 IQ
 Gifted
- 135 to 150 IQ
 Extremely gifted
- 170 to 180 IQ

6. o curious
o show interest in words and ideas
o rich vocabularies
o enjoy reading
o read rapidly & retain information
o seek older companions among children and
enjoy adults
o have good sense of humor and cheerful
o have strong desire to excel

7. o quick to comprehend
o follow directions easily
o have the ability to generalize, to see
relationships and to make logical associations
o interested in science, astronomy and the nature
of man and his universe
o like to do research, tabulate, classify, collect and
to keep records
o show initiative and wide imagination
o have good memories

8. 1. asks the question
2. enjoy learning
3. highly curious
4. mentally & physically
involve
5. has wild silly ideas
6. plays around yet tests well
7. discusses in detail
8. beyond top group
9. strong feelings & opinions
10. already knows
11. constructs abstraction
12. has much factual info
13. may disagree w/ teacher
or textbook answers
14. frequently respond in an
elaborate manner
1. knows the answer
2. enjoy school
3. interested
4. attentive
5. has good ideas
6. works hard
7. answers the question
8. top group
9. listeners with interest
10. learns with ease
11. understands idea
12. knowledgeable
13. one of the first to
respond
14. asks safe questions

9. o restless, inattentive, disturbing or annoying
o poor in spelling, careless handwriting or
inaccurate arithmetic
o lackadaisical
o outspokenly critical both of themselves and of
others
“Hidden Gifted”

10. o Type 1 – The successful
o Type 2 – The challenging
o Type 3 – The underground
o Type 4 – The dropouts
o Type 5 – The double labelled
o Type 6 – The autonomous learner
Neihart and Betts, 2010

11.  specialized program
 assessing their strengths then providing
enrichment through resources and services
 fulfill both individual and social needs
 counselling & encouragement services
 challenging & grouping them
 mentorship

12.  acceleration
- allowed to learn materials at more rapid
pace or is promoted more rapidly through grades
 enrichment
- work through the usual grades at the usual
pace but with a curriculum supplemented by a
variety of cultural activities
 differentiation
- are accelerated or enriched within the
regular classroom

13.  flexible
 helpful
 forbearing and understandable
 skillfull, knowledgeable or fully equipped
 great mentors
 inspired

15. “Most teachers waste their time by asking
questions which are intended to discover what a
pupil does not know, whereas the true art of
questioning has for its purpose to discover what
the pupil knows or is capable of knowing.”
-Albert Einstein