...our society. Their understanding of giftedness and gifted education would determine the fully actualization of gifted individuals. Gifted education: myths and misconception among Malaysian university students Introduction The current research was inspired by an article entitled 'Tracing the brain drain trend' (Fong, 2010) which stats that this phenomenon of brain drain is rapidly rising in the Malaysian context. It delivered an alarming message by depicting the 100-fold increase of Malaysian emigration rates compared to the worldwide 2.4% increase. This loss of talent had significantly impaired the country's growth in almost every sector including economics, education, and scientific advancement and etc. Malaysia's vision of becoming a developed country by 2020, proposed by former Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad would be in vain if this issue of talent retention and recruitment is not resolved. This is because a developing country like Malaysia would certainly need as many talented and gifted people as possible in order to achieve optimum development. The article also quoted from the National Economic Advisory Council (NEAC) on the New Economic Model (NEM) saying “we are not developing talent and what we do have are leaving”. This article signifies the importance of a society to develop talent and also allow the flourish of gifted individuals. Talent can be defined as an explicit exhibition of giftedness where giftedness acts as the natural abilities...
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...that they display skills which are advanced when compared to other children of their age. Contents * What makes a child gifted and talented? * Is giftedness just intelligence? * How do I know if my child is gifted? * Giftedness: nature or nurture? * Early school admission * The importance of early identification * Can I make my child become gifted and talented? * Difficulties faced by gifted children * Parenting gifted and talented children * How you can help your gifted child * Teachers, preschools and schools * Reminders * Resources * Further information * References All children have unique strengths and talents. However some children have particularly advanced or well developed skills and abilities in one or more areas. Such children may be referred to as gifted and talented. 'Gifted' refers to children with high potential (basically due to their inheritance) while 'talented' means that they display skills which are advanced when compared to other children of their age. What makes a child gifted and talented? Giftedness is due to a combination of factors including what the child inherits genetically, the development of the child before birth, and the nurturing of the child. * Giftedness is hard to define, and not surprisingly, a number of definitions of giftedness exist. * It is generally accepted that a gifted child would have the potential to perform at a level that is significantly beyond that of the majority...
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...Running head: LEARNING DISABILITIES Learning Disabilities Yadira M. Cesena Grand Canyon University SPE 526- Educating Learners with Diverse Needs April 19, 2011 Abstract This paper was written with the intent to define, describe the characteristics and causes of learning disabilities, communication disorders and giftedness. The author discusses the curriculum that is necessary for the students with learning disabilities, communication disorders and giftedness. The author summarizes in a short concluding paragraph that brings the topics together. Learning Disabilities There is so much known about learning disabilities, but yet so little. As a teacher it is important to understand the various types of learning disabilities, communication disorders and giftedness. In reality what does that all mean? Teachers should be well informed about the definitions of these as well as what characteristics to look for and what causes them. It is estimated that approximately six to ten percent of school-aged children are learning disabled. Many times students are mistakenly diagnosed having a learning disability. That is the reason why it is important for teachers to understand the difference of having different learning styles or needs than having a disability. Teachers need to know what to include in the curriculum, or how to make accommodations, or modifications to cater to the needs of the individual student. The ultimate goal is to understand these students and to give...
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...necessary to accomplish this task. The TSCGM uses locally normed test data in reading and mathematics to suggest inclusion in the high-achieving cluster, thus this model is best of providing services to encourage and grow the intellectual and academic needs and talents of students. The school district’s definition of giftedness specifically states that “all children have the opportunity to work at a level of challenge that promotes continuous academic growth”. The TSCGM does this by using approaches typically found in gifted education programs to improve the achievement and performance of all students in a school, and simultaneously addresses the needs of gifted students (Gentry & Fugate, p.213). With this model, students identified as gifted, or high-achieving, will be normed and clustered in relation to other students in their school, and the school district is prepared to provide services for students generally scoring in the top 10% when compared to students of similar age, experience, and environment. The school district also requires that students receive services in “increasing challenge” and those services are “designed to emphasize the importance of matching services to student needs with...
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...Gifted Education International 1993 Vol. 9, pp. 68-77 © 1993 A B Academic Publishers C. June Maker, The University of Arizona, USA creativity, intelligence, and problem solving: a defmition and design for cross-cultural research and measurement related to giftedness Abstract A new definition of giftedness is proposed based on a review of the constructs of intelligence, creativity, and problem solving. A research design employed in a series of studi~s of giftedness in children and adults is presented, along w1th a summary of important results. Finally, implications of the design for both research and practice are outlined. Intelligence A central concept in many theories and definitions of intelligence is solving problems or adaptation to one's environment. Although the phrase "problem solving" is not always found, the concept of "adaptation" or "ability to adapt", a central concept in many definitions (Binet & Simon, 1909 (cited in Terman, 1916); Boynton, 1933; Colvin, 1921; French, 1962; Piaget, 1981; Pintner, 1921; Stern, 1914; Wechsler, 1941 ), implies that individuals encounter situations (problems) to which they must devise ways of reacting. Thus, they are solving problems. Later theorists and researchers revised these general concepts of "adaptation" by adding the idea of adapting to the cultural as well as the biological environment (Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, 1982_; Goodnow, 1976; Charlesworth, 1976; Olson, 1976; Ne1sser...
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...Hypatia, regularly called Hypatia of Alexandria, was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher in Egypt, then a part of the Eastern Roman Empire. Her birthplace was in Alexandria, Egypt. Hypatia was born in 370 CE and she was the daughter of the mathematician Theon. Later on, after a few years she passed away on March 415 CE. As she passed away, she died at the age of sixty years old. While the mathematician Hypatia, enjoyed her life, she sometimes experienced some historical world events during her life. For instance, as stated by users.ox.ac.uk, it said “ The great library at Alexandria was founded by Ptolemy I at the end of the fourth century BCE. It was said to be the largest collection of books in the ancient world (over half...
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...ministry. How a Leader Conveys His Purpose * The more people that rally behind our purpose statement the healthier our ministry will become. * We must take on 3 responsibilities to make God’s purpose known within your youth ministry: 1. Communicate the purposes 2. Repeat the purposes 3. Make sure that key people memorize the purpose statement A Leader Communicates the Purposes * Your purpose cannot become a common purpose until people know about it. * To aid students, volunteers, parents, and church leaders in retaining your purpose statement, you will need to continually communicate it. A Leader Repeats the Purposes * A good leader will constantly communicate the purposes and remind people of the importance of knowing them. * No one will know the purposes or value them as much as the point person of the ministry. The Leader Makes Sure Key People Memorize the Purpose Statement * Even after you convey your purpose statement and repeat it you will find that some of your key people need to be nudged to memorize it. What to Do After Your Purpose Statement Is Known * Monitor your purpose statement * Manage your tie by the purposes * Modelling the purposes in your life * Creating programmes to fulfil the purposes Our youth ministry exists to REACH nonbelieving students, to CONNECT them, to help them GROW in their faith, and to challenge them to DISCOVER their ministry and HONOUR God with their life. Manage Your...
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...Growing With a Gifted Child By Diane Scanlon 1996 - Updated 2008 When my son was 3, he could read those great big dinosaur names and match them to their pictures. I knew this was not normal. That’s why I hid his books whenever we had guests. At 3 1/2 he was reading ingredients on boxes in my grocery cart and telling me which ones we shouldn't buy. People would look at him funny, so, I did my best to leave him home whenever I had to go to the market. When he was 4 and reading high school level books, my cousin, the public school teacher, told me public school would ruin him. I didn't listen. I honestly thought for some reason that they would love to have a kid like this in any school. Until...The first day of kindergarten when the teacher requested that I have a talk with him. He was reading all the words that were up on the walls and he couldn't write his name. She didn't want the other children to feel bad that they couldn't read like him. Then she asked me to tell him not to be so lazy. She thought that since he could read so well, he obviously had to be able to write his name. I listened and did as she asked. My son's first school lesson was that he was bad because he could read and that he couldn't write his name. Later that year, he wanted to take his medical book in for show and tell. I said "no" and handed him a toy instead. He went to school in tears that day. At 5 1/2 he was answering questions on Jeopardy and for a long time only my husband and I knew...
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...underdevelopment to affluence. This has been accomplished through the introduction of new products and technologies to better satisfy consumer wants and raise productivity. An entrepreneur, therefore, is a person who organizes and manages a business, assuming the risk for the sake of potential return (Mariotti & Glackin, 2012). The entrepreneur is an innovator who brings about change through the introduction of new technological processes or products, and thus, through innovation, the entrepreneur is a “deliberate wrecker of equilibrium.” Successful entrepreneurship is associated with a high degree of practical intelligence, creative abilities, and business talent, characteristics which Shavinina (2006) refers to as “entrepreneurial giftedness” (p. 225)--talented individuals who exceptionally succeeded in business by creating new ventures. According to Darling, Gabrielsson, and Seristo (2007), entrepreneurial management leadership is all about “breaking new ground, going beyond the known, and helping to create the future.” Also, entrepreneurial management leadership is about helping people settle into new opportunities that give them joy and hope for the future. The keys to entrepreneurial success are not intelligence, education, lifestyle or background. Rather, entrepreneurial success is determined, in most part, by the entrepreneur’s “ability to effectively deal with opportunities through the dynamics of an organizational setting, thereby enabling the people concerned to...
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...LIBERTY UNIVERSITY LIBERTY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY BOOK CRITIQUE the master plan of evangelism AN ASSIGNMENT SUBMITTED TO PRO. MALCOLM HESTER IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COURSE INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND ENGAGMENT GLST 650 BY Walter A. Culup JANURARY 26, 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………………………..….3 SUMMARY……………………………………………………………………………………….4 CRITICAL INTERACTION……………………………………………………………………...6 CONCLUSION………………………………………………………………………………........9 BIBLIOGRAPHY……………………………………………………………………………….10 INTRODUCTION One of the debates which arises when we examine Christian ministry is: What is the role of women in the ministry? What does the Bible say about this topic? While no conclusion or consensus has been reached on the topic there are two view points and positions which have arisen to the forefront of the debate. First we have the egalitarian view which holds the position that ministerial opportunities should be equal for both men and women. Then we have the complementarian view which presents the belief that ministerial roles should be differentiated by gender. James Beck’s book TwoViews on Women in Ministry explores both of these positions by examining four articles, two of each opposing viewpoints along with three critical responses to each article. The goal of the text is to compare and contrast both positions...
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...Intelligence Testing Article Analysis PSY/450, 2014 Intelligence Testing Article Analysis Mapping out the definition of intelligence is not a simple task, it is an ambiguous term that has a variety of definitions. When defining intelligence there appears to be common ground in phrases such as one’s ability to acquire knowledge, ‘he ability to solve problems, or the ability to understand and follow instructions. There are many more phrases and terms that one associates with intelligence, and this may be in part because, the differences of defining intelligence may lie in the fact that questions for evaluating intelligence may not have the same connotation in differing cultures. Shiraev and Levy state that intelligence is the necessary factor that allows an organism to adapt to its surroundings, a way of understanding one’s world (Shiraev, 2010). Along with understanding one’s world, intelligence allows one to make and complete goals, and overcome obstacles that may come into one’s life. This understanding of intelligence sets a good basis for understanding and defining intelligence, however, a do develop a greater understanding it is necessary to study the different theoretical testing of intelligence. This review will also examine the effectiveness of these various theories. Multiple Intelligence Theory In the late 1980’s Howard Gardner introduces a different viewpoint to the traditional theories of intelligence. He did this by including, language, logical-math, spatial...
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...Let’s Get Together Our leadership at Mountain Christian Church, Joppa, Maryland, has worked hard to create a mission-first, team-first staff culture. We work hard to facilitate, encourage, and protect this culture with existing staff, but we work extra hard to ensure prospective staff understand, buy in, and fit in with our culture. In fact, we believe selecting new staff to join our team at Mountain is one of the most important tasks of leadership. Few decisions have a longer-term impact on a church’s health and mission than the people it hires. Selecting wisely can move the mission forward and heighten a positive staff culture. Selecting poorly can derail or deter the mission, hold back a given ministry area, or create negative energy within the entire church. We always enter the hiring process by stating clearly that we want what God wants. If God is directing us to hire someone, we believe we can determine his will through a deliberate process. This includes face-to-face contact and the involvement of discerning people. Getting a Clear Picture Our goal is to get a clear picture of the candidate’s “four C’s”: character, competence, chemistry, and calling. Character is the heart and integrity of a Christian leader. Competence includes the skill sets, gifts, education, experience, and leadership required to fulfill the responsibilities. Chemistry is the degree to which a person fits within the staff team and staff culture. This includes the specific team in which the...
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...Positive Psychology An Introduction Martin E. P. Seligman Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi A science of positive subjective experience, positive individual traits, and positive institutions promises to improve quali~.' of life and prevent the pathologies that arise when life is barren and meaningless. The exclusive focus on pathology that has dominated so much of our discipline results in a model of the human being lacking the positive features that make life worth living. Hope, wisdom, creativity, future mindedness, courage, spirituality, responsibility, and perseverance are ignored or explained as transformations of more authentic negative impulses. The 15 articles in this millennial issue of the American Psychologist discuss such issues as what enables happiness, the effects of autonomy and self-regulation, how optimism and hope affect health, what constitutes wisdom, and how talent and creativity come to fruition. The authors outline a framework .['or a science of positive psychology, point to gaps in our knowledge, and predict that the next century will see a science and profession that will come to understand and build the factors that allow individuals, communities, and societies to flourish. E ntering a new millennium, Americans face a historical choice. Left alone on the pinnacle of economic and political leadership, the United States can continue to increase its material wealth while ignoring the human needs of its people and those of the rest of the ...
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...activities is on the rise, with more schools exploring creative ways of providing teacher learning opportunities. Online professional development offers a promising direction for providing increased learning opportunities, promoting professional collaboration, and supporting teacher facility with technology resources. In gifted education, online activities may present effective ways of connecting gifted education professionals across multiple schools and districts and providing professional learning experiences in gifted education for colleagues in general education. In this article, the authors discuss key features of professional development and considerations for applying them in an online learning context. The authors emphasize the importance of coherence with the curriculum, active engagement, sustained attention, and administrative support. They then discuss five avenues or approaches for implementing online professional development, representing a range of interactive elements and opportunities for blending live and online components. Within each avenue presented, the authors share specific resources that would support implementation in the professional learning context. “ Online activities may present effective ways of connecting gifted education professionals across multiple schools and districts and providing professional learning experiences.” Keywords: professional development, technology, gifted education E very day, our opportunities increase to use...
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...Developmentally Appropriate Teaching Strategies Korianne Shafer SOC312: Child Family & Society (BMF1441A) Art Tolentino October 27, 2014 Developmentally Appropriate Teaching Strategies Diversity encompasses numerous characteristics including socio-economic background, ethnicity, special needs, gender, and giftedness (Cazden, 2001). Today, classrooms are getting more varied and diverse with students from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, and students with a disability. It appears that teachers must meet the needs of all students successfully and individually to effectively teach a classroom of diverse students. This paper will first identify three challenges involved with ensuring that teaching strategies are appropriate for culturally diverse children. These three challenges are acknowledging there is a difference and that all students are not the same, establishing school-wide cultural collaboration, and implementing culturally responsive teaching. Second it will discuss these cultural challenges in the classroom using the sociological perspective of conflict theory. Third and finally it will discuss these cultural challenges in the classroom using the relevant perspective of Piaget’s preoperational stage of development. To make certain that all students in a certain classroom justly feel like they belong to that class, teachers who teach in diverse and inclusive classrooms must employ major strategies. The first challenges involved with ensuring...
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