CPD
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Continuous Professional Development
ON 16/04/2024
LEARNERS WITH LEARNING
DIFFICULTIES
GIFTED, GENIUS AND TALENTED
LEARNERS
OBJECTIVES
• By the end of the session, learners should be able to:
• Identify gifted, genius, and talented learners
• To apply appropriate teaching and learning methods to address
the learning needs of gifted, genius and talented learners.
• To demonstrate positive attitudes towards gifted, genius and
talented learners.
ACTIVITIES
• In groups of four, discuss about the following
concepts:
• Gifted learners
• Genius learners
• Talented learners.
• Creative children
• Children who are highly motivated
Warm up
Possible answers
Gifted learners are those who have superior
general ability in academic performance.
Genius learners excel in almost all academic
domains and with less effort.
Talented learners are those who show signs of
special aptitude or ability in specific areas of the
arts, sciences, business
CHARACTERISTICS OF GIFTED,
GENIUS AND TALENTED LEARNERS.
• Learn new material faster, and an earlier age, than age peers
• Always remember what have been learned without making revision
• They are able to deal with concepts that are too complex and abstract for age peers.
• Have a passionate interest in one or more topics and would spend all available time learning
about it if possible
• Do not need to look at the teacher to hear what is being said
• Can operate on multiple brain channels simultaneously and process more than one task at a
time.
CATEGORIES OF GIFTED AND TALENTED
LEARNERS
• LEARNERS WHO ARE GIFTED
• These learners enjoy school and go through curriculum with few
problems
• They continue with their education at institutions of higher learning
• They are bright and show a high level of intelligence
• They are able to deal with fact and their relationships
• They may be good in one area like language or mathematics or science
• LEARNERS WHO ARE TALENTED
• You should also realize that giftedness could include
many more kinds of talents and abilities in addition to
good school performance
• Example, some learners do exceptionally well in
music, the fine arts, mechanics, dancing, singing,
athletics or sports. These specific abilities are called
talents
• CHILDREN WHO ARE HIGHLY MOTIVATED
• In addition to natural, above-average intellectual ability and
creativity, parents, teachers, and all persons interested in
identification of gifted and talent children would consider
their level of motivation
• This is called” task commitment” children who are highly
motivated may achieve much with only just above-average
intelligence or talents
• CHILDREN WHO ARE CREATIVE
Creative learners have unusually high levels
originality and/ or the ability to restructure the world in
unusual forms. For example, somebody might have
come up with a certain design. Another one modifies it
so that, despite using the same materials and
measurements, the final design comes out very
differently.
PROBLEMS FACED BY LEARNERS WHO ARE GIFTED
AND TALENTED
• Due to their high intelligence, these learners do not fit well with their peer groups. They
may be unable to develop positive interpersonal relationships and becomes withdrawn
or loners. Some teachers find that too challenging and often misinterpret their
behaviors.
• Learners who are gifted and talented may also engage in disruptive behaviors in the
class. This may be because the learner finds class work and other activities meant for
their age group too easy. He/ she will therefore finish the assigned task within a short
time and due to boredom and frustration, may engage in disrupting classroom activities.
Such learners may also find themselves too dominate in group or class.
STRATEGIES OF ACCOMMODATING GIFTED,
GENIUS, AND TALENTED LEARNERS
• Learners who are gifted and talented are just like any others. They
have basic needs like other learners and the teacher needs to be talent,
loving, understanding and flexible. Also teacher needs to remember
that those learners are creative, competent, have broad range of
interests and skills, and ready to learn. To help the children who
are gifted and talented, teacher needs to:
Recognize and accept the learner’s special abilities, encourage the child to
explore his fields of interests.
Help the learner to develop or enrich his social confidence, avoid imposing
expectations and demands that are beyond the learner’s level of ability
avoid having negative attitudes towards the learners.
The following were proposed for gifted, genius and talented learners. The
learners need to be challenged:
To operate mentally and effectively at a complex level of thoughts and
feelings, through opportunities of production, by decisions among
intellectual peers through work that demonstrates process/ product
outcomes, by experiences that promote understanding of human value
system, by the opportunities to see inter-relationship in all bodies of
knowledge.
Thank you
