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Running Head: IDENTIFICATION OF YOUNG GIFTED CHILDREN
Running Head: IDENTIFICATION OF YOUNG GIFTED CHILDREN
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IDENTIFICATION OF YOUNG GIFTED CHILDREN
Identification of Young Gifted Children
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Identification of Young Gifted Children
Introduction
Children perform well in an environment that nurtures and supports their interests and abilities. Research suggests that due to the significance of providing talented and gifted children with appropriate stimulation and support to foster their learning process from an early age, there is a strong need that such students be identified as early as possible are (Rogers, 2011). This would enable nurturing the gifted children from an early age to reach their true potential. While most young gifted children would thrive and develop within the natural learning environment and level as other children, some gifted children tend to exhibit certain behavioural problems, such as being bored with learning. Identifying gifted children at an early age can be challenging especially due to different forms of gifts that exist. Furthermore, some forms of giftedness in children may not be easy to identify at an early age. This paper therefore evaluates and discusses various issues involved in the identification of young gifted children.
Characteristics of Gifted Children
Research has indicated that characteristics exhibited by gifted children are often apparent and distinguished from an early age (Wellisch & Brown, 2012). The (NSWDET) New South Wales Department of Education and Training (2004) in its policy document for identifying of young gifted and talented children, examined a number of characteristics defining giftedness. Key intellectual traits would include rapidity in learning, intellectual curiosity, complex thought processes, analytical thinking, high reasoning ability, highly imaginative, powerful concentration, reflective abilities, as well as a sense of justice and moral concern. On the other hand, core personality traits that define giftedness include insightful, self awareness, perfectionist, need for mental stimulation, empathy, sensitivity and a sense of humour, perseverance, need for logic and precision, tendency to introversion, nonconformity, and questioning authority (p. 8). However, not all these characteristics are exclusive to children who are gifted, only that they tend to possess these to a higher degree than other students.
However, Wellisch and Brown (2012) show that not all features in identifying gifted students are necessarily positive. Some gifted students also tend to exhibit negative behaviours and characteristics such as cynicism, stubbornness, emotional frustration, uncooperativeness, low attention span and interest in details or absent-mindedness (NSWDET, 2004, p. 8). Such characteristics may be attributed to underachievement, attachment difficulties and other...