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Identify by General Behavior
Characteristics:early reader, large vocabularies, learn basics quickly with less practice, construct abstractions,
interpret nonverbal cues, draw inferences, seek How? and Why?, independent worker, wide interests, intensely interested,
boundless energy, respond well to adults, older playmates, intrinsically motivated, and approach tasks efficiently.
Identify by Learning Characteristics:
eye for details, keen observations, independent readers of various materials, greatly enjoy intellectual activity, able to
think abstractly to conceptualize and to synthesize, readily see cause-effect, questioning attitude, spot inconsistencies
by being skeptical/critical/evaluative, wide knowledge base, use underlying principles to generalize about events/people/objects,
quickly perceive similarities/differences/anomalies, and are able to separate complicated information into components to analyze
it systematically.
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Identify by Creative Characteristics:
fluent thinkers, generate possibilities/consequences, think of alternative approaches to problem solving, original thinkers
who see new and unconventional combinations of information, perceive relationships among "unrelated" facts or ideas, embellish
basic ideas/situations/problems, thrive on complex problem solving, good guessers/hypothesizers, self aware of impulsivity
and irrationality, emotionally sensitive, extremely curious about life (ideas/objects/events/people/situations), intellectually
playful, fantasize and imagine, freely express opinions and ideas, disagree confidently, sensitive to beauty and aesthetics.
Avoid the Myths about Gifted
Children: always rise to the top in class, do not need special programs, are always also talented (gifted is not synonomous with talented), must be educated with same-age peers,
should be envied!
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