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Group 1 - Learners Who Are Gifted and Talented
Group 1 - Learners Who Are Gifted and Talented
Learners who are Gifted and Talented in Visual arts, Music, Intellectual
giftedness, and Performing arts.
Gifted and talented learners are the learners between the ages of four and twenty-one
whose abilities, talents, and potential for accomplishments are so exceptional or
developmentally advanced that they require special provision to meet their educational
programming needs.
Qualities of the gifted and talented learners:
they learn more quickly and independently than most students their own age.
they often have well-developed vocabulary as well as advanced reading and
writing skills.
they are very motivated especially on tasks that are challenging or difficult.
they hold themselves to higher than usual standards of achievements
Teaching strategies for gifted and talented learners:
treat students as individual
let students explore their passions
infuse enrichments into activity
build in time for flexible learning groups
embrace creative questioning
encourage self-directed learning with learners
Causes of Giftedness:
Genetic – the belief that smart people marry smart people and have and have smart
children.
Environmental – the belief that you can make a child gifted by exposing him/her to a
variety of enriching experiences, beginning at early age.
Effects of Being Gifted and Talented learner:
increased risk of anxiety
depression
low self-esteem
Learners who are gifted and talented in Visual Arts:
Children gifted in art develop the desire and the ability to depict people and other
subjects from their environment at an earlier age than other children. The elements of
composition, color, space, and movement are handled with greater sensitivity by visually
gifted students.
Characteristics of the Visually Gifted:
Two characteristics are associated with visually talented children: behavioral traits and
characteristics of their artworks.
Behavioral Traits:
Early evidence
Emergence through drawing
Extended concentration
Self-directedness
Possible inconsistency with creative behavior
Fluency of idea and expression
Calculating Capacity
Characteristic of the Artwork:
Verisimilitude (realism)
Compositional control
Complexity and elaboration
Memory and detail
Sensitivity to art media
Random improvisation
References :
Kelvin Seifert, Rosemary Sutton, Gifted and Talented Students, Retrieved from
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-educationalpsychology/chapter/gifted-
and-talented-students/ accessed on September 28, 2023
Mary Codd (2004), Gifted and Talented in Visual Arts, Retrieved from
https://www.growminds.com/TheArts/GTinArt.htm accessed on September 28, 2023
GE McPherson (1997), Gifted and Talented in Music, Retrieved from
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3333144 accessed on September 28, 2023
Davidson (2017), Intellectually Gifted, Retrieved from
https://www.tn.gov/education/families/student-support/special-education/
intellectually-gifted.html#collapse58b0d451f4b242469157970bb3f1c9c1-5
accessed on September 28, 2023