Stimulating Early Gifted Learners

Lindsey Reinert

Penelope Heinigk, Ph.D.

Overexcitibilities

Asychronouos development

Perfectionism

Social-emotional support

Stamina

Acute sense of justice

• Intellectual: need for continuous intense intellectual stimulation

• Imaginational: the tendency to create vivid dreams, fantasies, images, and visualizations of experiences

• Emotional: attachments and intense feelings• Sensual: the need for sensory contact and sensory

stimulation• Psychomotor: movement and the excess of energy.

Overexcitibilities: A greater capability to respond to stimuli

Foundations of Learning

• What is it?

• What can I substitute it for?

• How can I manipulate it?

• What do I need know about it?

• How can I look at it in different ways?

Interests

From the topics below, choose the one that is most interesting to you.

Group 1: Music

Group 2: Space

Group 3: Dinosaurs

Group 4: Maps/Geography

Group 5: Plants/Gardening

With your group-mates, brainstorm what hands-on resources, field trips, props, games, books, posters, experiences, etc. that could be used for a group of young students curious about the same topic.

Questions

Now with your group-mates, brainstorm some stimulating questions that you could use with young students who share the same interest.

Resources & Options

• ALM for Young Gifted Learners

• Developing the Gifted & Talented Young Learner

• Teaching Young Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom

• Early Access (HB 1021)

• Gifted programs, public & private

• Wikispace