How to tell if a child is gifted?
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smurf:
Correct me if im wrong, being smart and intelligent is different from gifted?? :?
there can be overlaps, but apparently there is a difference. This is probably an oversimplification, but it's in the way they analyse information. Our GEP classes are not geared towards all gifted children, but a straddling between gifted and high achievers. So even if your child is privately tested to be gifted, MOE will not accept the test results. They have their own criteria and will conduct their own testing if they decide to.
Gifted is also not the same as being a high achiever. If I'm not wrong, there was a study once on the jobs taken by various gifted individuals and one of the high IQ fellow was a truck driver.
Hence the importance of instilling resilience, EQ, good value and work ethics.
There was an interesting table on the differences between gifted, high achiever, and creative. If I can find it I'll put it here. Some of the points made me chuckle!
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Agree with sleepy. Ask the school to arrange for one, since the teachers too found him bright. Moe has the best resources andif there be any action required, they'll follow up from there. Alternatively, go call any clinic or hospital for a referral to a psychologist.
If he is bored, bring him to the zoo, hv him read up about the animals and draw them. Take photos and arrange into a beautiful sketch book.
Publish a nice book jointly with him. Start a blog, create a cartoon character and write stories around the character. Buy a good camera and capture the birds in action, do research on Singapore birds. Go visit the war memorials and read up on Hitler and his secret forces. Play ww2 games at home. Go to China town and drink tea, talk about the cultures one at a time. I would also bring my kids to Mrs Lee's wake and point out how as girls she's a perfect role model.
Go play basketball in the neighbourhood, catch some earthworms and talk about their contributions to us. Look at the haze and read newspapers about its cause and effects.
If he is bored in school, he doesn't hv to be bored elsewhere. And if my kid is bored in school, I'll make sure he has fun at home. And, I'll remind them that it is good to be bored once in a while. For, it is only when you have nothing to do and allowed to be bored that creative ideas come about.
That's why, the professors in the universities have few classes and does research and thinking most of the time. It is during these thinking and boring times that great discoveries are made! I know that for a fact.
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haha, I found it. I LOVE their description of the quirky creative child. Take it as a casual reference, and remember children are more complex than charts.
http://giftedkids.about.com/od/gifted101/l/bright_gifted.htm
I find this one so funny:
A high achiever...performs at the top of the group.
A gifted learner ... is beyond the group.
A creative learner ... is in own group. :rotflmao:
or this one:
HA...needs 6 to 8 repetitions for mastery
GL...needs 1to 3 repetitions
CL...questions the need for mastery. LOL -
[quote] We were given a one page report with raw data, I also don't know how to interpret. If tested externally, I suppose there should be detailed write up and recommendations
[/quote]alamak, why is moe so cheapskate? Since they already did the testing why didn't they just include the intepretation which I'm sure the psychologist provided for the authorities. -
2ppaamm:
:goodpost: These are excellent ideas. Sticky it Chief!Agree with sleepy. Ask the school to arrange for one, since the teachers too found him bright. Moe has the best resources andif there be any action required, they'll follow up from there. Alternatively, go call any clinic or hospital for a referral to a psychologist.
If he is bored, bring him to the zoo, hv him read up about the animals and draw them. Take photos and arrange into a beautiful sketch book.
Publish a nice book jointly with him. Start a blog, create a cartoon character and write stories around the character. Buy a good camera and capture the birds in action, do research on Singapore birds. Go visit the war memorials and read up on Hitler and his secret forces. Play ww2 games at home. Go to China town and drink tea, talk about the cultures one at a time. I would also bring my kids to Mrs Lee's wake and point out how as girls she's a perfect role model.
Go play basketball in the neighbourhood, catch some earthworms and talk about their contributions to us. Look at the haze and read newspapers about its cause and effects.
If he is bored in school, he doesn't hv to be bored elsewhere. And if my kid is bored in school, I'll make sure he has fun at home. And, I'll remind them that it is good to be bored once in a while. For, it is only when you have nothing to do and allowed to be bored that creative ideas come about.
That's why, the professors in the universities have few classes and does research and thinking most of the time. It is during these thinking and boring times that great discoveries are made! I know that for a fact.
Or maybe 2ppaamm should write a KSP blog on what to do when your child is bored. -
deminc:
haha, I found it. I LOVE their description of the quirky creative child. Take it as a casual reference, and remember children are more complex than charts.
http://giftedkids.about.com/od/gifted101/l/bright_gifted.htm
I find this one so funny:
A high achiever...performs at the top of the group.
A gifted learner ... is beyond the group.
A creative learner ... is in own group. :rotflmao:
or this one:
HA...needs 6 to 8 repetitions for mastery
GL...needs 1to 3 repetitions
CL...questions the need for mastery. LOL
deminc,
Thanks for sharing ! Very interesting. My boy actually fits into many of the descriptions of the creative thinker, especially these :
Daydreams; may seem off task
Initiates more projects that will ever be completed
Questions the need for mastery :lol: -
sleepy, either we choose to let her be a small fish in a big pond or big fish in a small pond.
lauren, even so, at least she’s ahead by 1 year and is being challenged. i think its better than going to P1 and being bored in class.
mrswong, i have pm you. -
More ideas of what to do when your child is bored :
1. Get him an origami book and ask him to figure out how to fold all those complicated objects without asking you
2. Give him a map and compass, and ask him to bring you somewhere you have never been to
3. Bake cupcakes and cookies, or make jellies
4. Get him air dry clay and ask him to make roses out of it
5. When he tells you that he is bored, just stare at him blankly. He will have to figure out what to do next This is a very important life skill ! -
deminc:
alamak, why is moe so cheapskate? Since they already did the testing why didn't they just include the intepretation which I'm sure the psychologist provided for the authorities.[/quote]Yah loh yah loh. When I asked them where are the interpretation, they told me to google & read online :faint:[quote] We were given a one page report with raw data, I also don't know how to interpret. If tested externally, I suppose there should be detailed write up and recommendations
But since I didn't pay a single cent, how to 'hiam' -
sleepy:
Gosh, they even have the cheek to tell you to google it yourself?? But you did pay! With your taxes! You should have thundered - It's MY tax money that's paying for YOUR salary!
Yah loh yah loh. When I asked them where are the interpretation, they told me to google & read online :faint:
But since I didn' pay a single cent, how to 'hiam'
Plus it's the school that wanted to do it, it's not as if you demanded for it. Once they did it, it's only right that they give you the proper information.
We pay our taxes and still get such cheap skate treatment from govt, sheesh.
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