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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?
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
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