Gifted schoolchildren

and recognize, test, promote and challenge above-average talented pupils and their possible problems through a high level of talent or special, above-average talent

We will tell you how you can promote and challenge, which intelligence tests can be recommended and there are references to advice and coaching for gifted and exceptionally gifted students.

If you have any questions or specific problems, take advantage of the opportunity and speak to our specialists on the advisory phone about your child’s giftedness. On the phone number 09001231245 (Cost: € 1.99 / min. From the German landline network; mobile network may vary) you can also reach the employee for highly gifted students. You can of course conduct the conversation completely anonymously. If you want.

Teachers always have students with one or more of the above Skills sitting in their classes. According to empirical studies, around 20-30% of primary school children in primary school are endowed with very good to well above-average talents up to high-level talent. In secondary schools, the percentage of these children changes due to the school selection process depending on the type of school.

According to their mandate, teachers should provide each child with support and attention that is appropriate to each child’s skills. This is also in the school laws. It is therefore important to recognize these children and possibly to put them through an intelligence test.

For this it is among others important:

  • to know about the phenomenon of giftedness
  • yourself on the subject giftedness retrain
  • to recognize talented students
  • to have a variety of teaching methods and forms of teaching ready
  • Recognize underachievers
  • to be able to deal with the different problem areas of the underachievers (the anxious, the depressed, the critics, the perfectionists, the refusers, the avoiders, the "zero-bokers", the revolutionaries, …)
  • to consider the talented students as children and adolescents who, like the other students, need attention and personality appreciation
  • Accept independent approaches and approaches
  • Avoid a lot of practice and repetition tasks
  • Allow space so that the child can follow their own pace and learning needs
  • Give the child the opportunity to experience flow in class (flow: state that occurs when requirements and skills are in balance and are accompanied by strong intrinsic motivation and good talent).

By the way, we have also set up a checklist for recognizing talented students. This is divided into the primary school and the secondary school. A good way of exchanging ideas between teachers and parents. This checklist for students is a good addition to the parents’ checklist.

In order to make it clear again, especially for the school area, that there is not just THE gifted talent, we refer below to Howard Gardner, who shows nine different intelligences:

  • Linguistic intelligence
    (Poets, journalists, advertisers, lawyers, …)
  • Musical intelligence
    (Musicians, conductors, composers, …)
  • Logical-mathematical intelligence
    (Mathematicians, computer specialists, philosophers, ..)
  • Spatial intelligence
    (Chess player, sculptor, architect.)
  • Physical-kinesthetic intelligence
    (Athlete, actor, dancer, surgeon, etc)
  • Intrapersonal intelligence
    (Ability to know your own feelings, limits and possibilities well, e.g. actors, writers, artists, ..)
  • Interpersonal intelligence
    (Ability to understand other people and to meet them with empathy: therapists, teachers, sales people)
  • Naturalistic intelligence
    (Ability to observe, differentiate and recognize living things, to be sensitive to natural phenomena: foresters, botanists, biologists, …)
  • Existential intelligence
    (Ability to recognize essential questions of existence and seek answers to them, spiritual leaders, philosophers, …)

High talent and talent can relate to different areas and can be different. Among other things, this means that a mathematically gifted child does not necessarily have to be good in English or vice versa. Nevertheless, there may be an overall giftedness.

If you want to be sure that your suspicion of a talent is confirmed, advise the parents to take the test.

But not all procedures are suitable. It is important to be well informed. You can find important information about testing under Intelligence Tests.

How do you recognize gifted or gifted children in class??

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Teachers often understand talented and highly gifted children who write good to very good grades, participate more or less actively in class and have no other major problems. But this is not the norm. It is often THE children with the poor grades who have a very high intelligence quotient, children and adolescents with behavioral problems who one with Connects ADD or ADHD to children with enormous spelling or arithmetic problems that suggest dyslexia or dyscalculia. This may or may not be. Children with high talents sometimes show these symptoms. But there are gifted children with, but also without these diagnoses, children who simply cannot cope with the school system and therefore do not show the expected performance.

Especially when it comes to arithmetic, you have to look very closely. If children do not seem to be able to do arithmetic, it can be both a dyscalculia, but also a mathematical talent. Children with a high level of mathematical talent often have their own way of calculating, which prevents them from following the school-based path. The result is a five in math, although the child would actually have written a good grade on his own path, which he sometimes cannot understand even afterwards.

It is therefore important to design teaching in such a way that this demand can be realized and under-demand for the gifted and overwhelmed for the weakly gifted are avoided.

If you have any questions or specific problems, take advantage of the opportunity and speak to our specialists on the advisory phone about your child’s giftedness. On the phone number 09001231245 (Cost: € 1.99 / min. From the German landline network; mobile network may vary) you can also reach the employee for highly gifted students. You can of course conduct the conversation completely anonymously. If you want.

Problems in school and classroom with highly gifted and above average gifted students

Problems of gifted and gifted children and young people in school and class are diverse and often one problem leads to the next, so that the children get into a vicious circle of problems that they can hardly get out of alone. These students often have school problems, including behavioral problems, as follows:

  • bad grades,
  • class Clown,
  • Träumerchen,
  • aggressiveness,
  • concentration problems,
  • lack of motivation,
  • Spelling problems,
  • computational problems,
  • hyperactive behavior,
  • fearful behavior,
  • low self-confidence,
  • lack of participation in class,
  • Problems with classmates,
  • mobbing
  • u.v.m..

Encourage and challenge with giftedness u. above average talent in school

In elementary school you can think about jumping. This is particularly useful if the child is already reading at the start of school, write or can calculate. So that it does not get bored, jumping is essential or the child must be encouraged within the class association so that at the end of the third class they already master the material of the fourth and can therefore switch to secondary school more quickly.

Furthermore, the child must not be given the same tasks as the classmates if it is already further than this. Here, however, quality is more important than quantity, i.e. the child does not have to be given the same tasks as the classmates plus additional ones, but rather different tasks than the others, namely those that stimulate thinking and research.

This is how you kill two birds with one stone, because the child learns from the increased demands, and this is exactly what they cannot do without the corresponding requirement.

The secondary school can also support the child with additional, other tasks to expand their knowledge. Here you can allow the child to do additional research on the Internet, visit the good, old city library, or acquire additional knowledge through their own research and initiatives and possibly pass it on to classmates.

If the performance is particularly good, jumping can also be considered at the secondary school. The introduction of a revolving door model can also give talented children and adolescents an additional requirement.

Please also note our information on coaching and advice.

If you have any questions or specific problems, take advantage of the opportunity and speak to our specialists on the advisory phone about your child’s giftedness. On the phone number 09001231245 (Cost: € 1.99 / min. From the German landline network; mobile network may vary) you can also reach the employee for highly gifted students. You can of course conduct the conversation completely anonymously. If you want.

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