personality and learning Styles Of Gifted Children

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

definisi gifted and talented


What does it mean to be Gifted/Talented?
Identification of the gifted and talented can pose a problem to teachers and educationprofessionals because they are not a homogeneous group. The typical picture of thehighly able child is of a hard-working pupil who diligently completes work, and isperhaps known as the class “swot” or “brain box”. In reality the picture is much more complex than that. Alongside the gifted achievers are those who - despite their giftsand talents - persistently underachieve due to boredom, lack of interest, or cripplingperfectionism; young children who are cognitively advanced enough to play gameswith complex rule structures and yet not socially mature enough to deal with the frustration that occurs when their peers cannot grasp the game; children whosegiftedness may be masked by the fact that they are not being educated in their firstlanguage or who have also have a disability.
The vast number of definitions for giftedness and talent can be quite confusing. Wehave provided some of the better known definitions in the section below in order togive you an overview of the area. No one definition is perfect – highly able childrencan no more be fitted into one neat category box than any other child whose range ofexperiences has shaped his or her attitudes to learning and achievement.
Definitions of giftedness and talent
Before beginning to develop provision for gifted and talented students it is necessary to understand just what is meant by these terms, and how they apply to children in our classrooms. There is large variation in the range and breadth of definitions of gifted and talented students, and little consensus on a satisfactory definition.
This lack ofclarity led Gagne to remark that the concept of giftedness is at times difficult to defend because it is “defined too loosely while being measured too restrictively”

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