IS MY CHILD SUPERIOR TALENTED
Giftedness is an innate trait and children with this ability have some distinctive features from the early stages of their lives.
Determining whether a child is gifted or not is important for determining and arranging the environmental factors and educational opportunities to be offered to him. Because if the existing superior talents are not cultivated and developed, they become ordinary and may lose their characteristics.
When we consider the characteristics of preschool period, it is possible to have an idea about whether children are gifted or not based on some of their behaviors, interests and tendencies.
The features that can be seen in children in the pre-school period and that may be the precursors of giftedness are as follows:
Language development shows a rapid development in the early childhood period. Many gifted children can speak in sentences on their first birthday
Gifted children are interested in toys and subjects that other children are not interested in
They ask too many questions and do not like to have their questions glossed over, they expect satisfactory answers
They catch details that their peers cannot notice in daily life
They remember details and events from the distant or recent past that even adults may have difficulty remembering
They have a long attention span. They especially enjoy working on subjects they enjoy doing and can do successfully
Their ability to notice and understand the relationships between objects, events and situations has developed
Their reasoning skills are at a good level, they can establish cause-effect relationships
They understand concepts that require abstract thinking better than their peers
They have talents in any branch of fine arts such as painting, music and dance.
Their interests and focus may change frequently. While they are interested in dinosaurs for a while, they may start to be interested in cars after a while
They learn easily, they understand quickly
They are curious, they always want to research and learn
Vocabulary according to their peers, the characteristics of the words they use and its diversity is great.
They have a strong memory and good memorization skills.
They can do mathematical operations mentally
They have good generalization skills. They can use their knowledge on one subject for another when appropriate
They generally learn to read and write on their own in the pre-school period
They are interested in politics, science, etc. that their peers are not very interested in
Themselves They set high goals for their children and strive to achieve these goals
In order for a child to be considered gifted, they must have many of these characteristics; however, it is not expected to exhibit all these features. Because, as in all matters related to children, individual differences are important in this regard. Not every gifted child shows interest in the same fields or exhibits superior characteristics in the same field.
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF GIANTED CHILDREN
One of the most difficult situations that gifted children experience in their own world is to be different or to be perceived as different by others. Because gifted children think that very few people have the characteristics they have, they cannot normalize themselves or see themselves as normal. Therefore, they feel alone.
When we look at the social-emotional development of gifted children, we can see the following features.
They prefer to be independent
They think they have initiative in social environments
They are popular with their friends
They take leadership spontaneously in social environments in the natural process
They have very good persuasion skills
They do not like authority, they have difficulty accepting arbitrary decisions
Adults or their teachers have to explain everything to the smallest detail, they demand it
They like jokes, their sense of humor has developed
They think that they are not socially accepted by their friends
Their imagination and descriptive skills are developed
They enjoy being together with older people, not their peers
They are stubborn and persistent to get their ideas accepted (
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They have no tolerance for injustice. They defend the rights of others and themselves
Their ability to empathize is more developed than their peers.
They are generally impatient and anxious
They experience it at the highest level when they are disappointed, the way they are affected and their duration is long
They have difficulty in finding social role models for themselves
Their drawing skills are generally good
They try to do their best in everything they do
Emotions can be up and down. They may cry for a short period of time and then be happy as if nothing has happened
