Gifted and Talented Program
Meet our Team:
Elementary School Campus - January Bauman, GT Coordinator
Junior High School Campus - Wendy Flynn, GT Coordinator
High School Campus - Advanced Academics
Elementary School Campus - January Bauman, GT Coordinator
Junior High School Campus - Wendy Flynn, GT Coordinator
High School Campus - Advanced Academics
Recognizing Characteristics of Gifted Children
ERIC Clearing House of Handicapped on Handicapped and Gifted Children (1985) cites three types of characteristics of gifted children: general behavioral, learning, and creative characteristics. A few of these characteristics are listed here, but to learn more, please contact any SISD administrator.
Gifted children’s behavior differs from that of their age-appropriate peers in the following ways:
General Behavioral Characteristics:
ERIC Clearing House of Handicapped on Handicapped and Gifted Children (1985) cites three types of characteristics of gifted children: general behavioral, learning, and creative characteristics. A few of these characteristics are listed here, but to learn more, please contact any SISD administrator.
Gifted children’s behavior differs from that of their age-appropriate peers in the following ways:
General Behavioral Characteristics:
- May learn to read early, with a better comprehension of the nuances of the language
- Often read widely, quickly and have a large vocabulary
- Commonly learn basic skills quickly with less practice
- Like to learn new things and willing to examine the unusual; highly inquisitive
- Usually respond well to parents, teachers, and other adults
- Have keen observation and can identify important details
- Take great pleasure in intellectual activities
- Readily see cause/effect relationships
- Often display a questioning attitude and seek information for its own sake
- Often skeptical, critical, and evaluative. Quick to spot inconsistencies
- Often attack complicated material by separating it into components for systematic analysis
- Fluent thinkers, able to generate possibilities
- Flexible thinkers, able to use different alternatives to solve problems
- Original thinkers, seeking new, unusual, or unconventional associations
- Less intellectually inquisitive than their peers