Tag: creative thinking
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Ways that schools help and hinder Gifted students.
The justification for gifted education is simple: Academically advanced children should be given work at their speed and level, both to nurture their talents and prevent them from becoming bored and disruptive in class. I came across an interesting article this week: 4 ways schools help or hinder Giftedness This does make links to schooling in…
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Ways that schools help and hinder Gifted students.
The justification for gifted education is simple: Academically advanced children should be given work at their speed and level, both to nurture their talents and prevent them from becoming bored and disruptive in class. I came across an interesting article this week: 4 ways schools help or hinder Giftedness This does make links to schooling in…
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Finding your child’s gift
Have you ever wondered if your child is gifted? Perhaps they taught themselves to read at an early age? Maybe they display empathy towards others beyond their years? Some gifted children can manipulate numbers ten years before their age peers. Being gifted can be seen in many different ways and although my blog has a…
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Programming for challenge
When we start a new year or a new topic most teachers are lucky enough to be given a program from the year before to use. This can be fantastic as it saves time and also inspires ideas for the current year but there are many things we need to do before we use the…
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Encouraging creative thinking
All children need to be encouraged to think creatively but our gifted learners are able to really go beyond what we imagine the responses to be. Having a weekly prompt to encourage more than just creative writing helps with not only creative thinking but also problem solving, independent ideas, collaborative planning and working on ideas…
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Creativity
Gifted children, from an early age can show the capacity to think creatively, critically and abstractly. Have you ever had them ask a question and you wondered how they came up with that thought? Or wondered why they have thought so hard about something that just seems trivial to you? Gifted children need to know…
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