Who Am I?Characteristics

of the Gifted LearnerDr. Dee Ann Owens

Who is Gifted?

Verner Von Braun

Pioneer rocket scientist and engineer; efforts led to the development of Explorer satellites, Jupiter, Jupiter-C, Pershing, Redstone and Saturn rockets, and the Skylab space station

Winston Churchill

British politician and statesman; known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during WWII

Albert Einstein

Physicist who discovered the theory of relativity

Louis Pasteur

French chemist and microbiologist;remembered for developing the process known as pasteurization

Cher

American recording artist, actress, director, and record producer; referred to as the Goddess of Pop.

Walt Disney

American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur

Louisa May Alcott

American novelist best known for the novel Little Women

Beethoven

German composer and virtuoso pianist; became completely deaf in his 20s, but continued to compose

Leo Tolstoy

Russian writer, philosopher and social activist; best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina

F. W. Woolworth

Founder of F. W. Woolworth & Co.; now Foot Locker

Enrico Caruso

Famous Italian Tenor

Thomas Edison

American businessman, scientist, and inventor who developed many devices such as the light bulb and phonograph

Steven Spielberg

American film director, screenwriter, film producer, video game designer and studio executive

Isaac Newton

English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, etc.; known for Laws of Gravity

Abraham Lincoln

16th President of the United States

Bright or Gifted?

Bright Gifted

Knows the answer

InterestedAttentiveHas good ideas

Asks the questions

Highly curiousMentally and

physically involved

Has wild, silly ideas

Bright Gifted

Works hardAnswers the

questionsTop groupLearns with

ease

Plays around, yet test well

Discusses in detail; elaborates

Beyond the group

Already knows

Bright GiftedUnderstands ideas6-8 repetition for

mastery

Enjoys peersGrasps the

meaningCompletes

assignments

Constructs abstractions

1-2 repetitions for mastery

Prefers adultsDraws

inferencesInitiates projects

Bright Gifted

Is receptiveCopies

accuratelyEnjoys schoolAbsorbs

informationTechnician

Is intenseCreates a new

designEnjoys learningManipulates

informationInventor

Bright GiftedGood

memorizerEnjoys

sequential presentation

Is alertPleased with

own learning

Good guesserThrives on

complexityKeenly

observantHighly self-

critical

The Nature of the Gifted Learner: Fancy or Fact?

Who Am I?Characteristics

of the Gifted LearnerDr. Dee Ann Owens