Similar to the job each airline crew member needs to perform in preparation for a flight take-off, a school district also needs to pursue an action plan for identifying and educating its gifted students. This plan is commonly referred to as a ‘model’ or ‘framework.’ Because numerous international models of gifted identification exist, a school district must choose one that best addresses their ...

The DMGT proposes four aptitude domains (see Figure 1): intellectual (IG), creative (CG), socioaffective (SG), and sensorimotor (MG). These natural abilities, whose development and level of expression is partially controlled by the individual’s genetic endowment, can be observed in every task children are confronted with in the course of their schooling: for instance, the intellectual abilities...

Similar to the job each airline crew member needs to perform in preparation for a flight take-off, a school district also needs to pursue an action plan for identifying and educating its gifted students. This plan is commonly referred to as a ‘model’ or ‘framework.’ Because numerous international models of gifted identification exist, a school district must choose one that best addresses their ...

Giftedness responds in people from infancy through adulthood. Although research has recognised the early years in a gifted child’s future development and learning as critical, preschool teachers and school psychologists of this population have limited knowledge about the expression and special characteristics of giftedness at this stage of development. Due to the fact that gifted children have ...

What are some indicators of giftedness in a very young child? What might parents or teachers observe that might lead them to wonder if a child is exceptional? Giftedness really refers to advanced development in any set of abilities or skills. For intellectually and academically gifted children, the earliest indicators will probably be unexpected glimmers of advanced understanding: a baby sortin...