by peterpan

Created on: April 18, 2008

It can be very tricky for a teacher to determine gifted children in the classroom. However, the tricks could be easily solved if the teacher is well versed with understanding about child psychology since gifted children tend to exhibit distinct intellectual, social and emotional traits that can be seen even in a classroom setting.

Inexperienced teachers may be mistaken to identify those students who are behave, those who get high grades in examinations or those who are meek and kind and follow the rules and regulations well as the possible gifted ones. The truth is, gifted children are very much different from this image.

Gifted children exhibit different types of emotions but it doesn't mean that they have schizophrenia. It is because of they are live at different ages at one time when it comes due to their asynchronous development such that they may think and talk like adults but their emotions are still fragile and their social experience is still insufficient.

MENTALITY AND EMOTIONS OF A HIGHLY GIFTED CHILD

Children are known to have short attention span that is why schools often provide short class hours per subject when it comes to preschools or even in early grade schools. Gifted children, however has longer attention span. They tend to be curious in everything that they sometimes tend to ask topics beyond the subject matter. They tend to engage themselves too much in their quest for knowledge.

You may see a child who is just very observant with what's happening around him. Being observant makes them learn more about the world they live in. For them, learning is not just what their school could impart to them but it's more of having first hand experience of life's experiences.

They have really good memory. They easily memorize poems and rhymes. They easily remember every word that is uttered by their teacher so teachers should really watch out what they speak about.

They have excellent reasoning ability. They easily conceptualize and synthesize things. They easily learn how to connect things like for example the pros and cons of doing this or doing that or why this or that happened.

These children also have vivid and strange imaginations that children of their age don't have. They play well with their fantasies and some even have imaginary friends for they feel to be more comfortable with them than their real friends.

They are consistent on what they think and they tend to be perfectionists. Take for example in an art class, they would put more detail in their

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