Essays on Gifted Children

<Institution> The development of human intelligence is a complex process, and many factors are involved in it. The following are some of the important concepts and theories that are helpful in understanding more about human intelligence.

Concrete-Operational Period and Formal-Operational Period

Concrete operations stage is the third stage of cognitive development that was formulated by Jean Piaget. Children ages 7 to 11 years go through this stage, which is further divided into two sub-stages: the concrete-operational period and the formal-operational period. During concrete-operational period, a child develops the ability to apply logical thinking about an object as long as it can be manipulated (“ ...

Introduction

Most often, individuals were coaxed to perform on how they trained their minds to focus on particular goals and objective. Research had revealed that people who had their minds fixed on achieving something devised means of achieving them at whatever cost. A mindset involves developing the mind to function in a certain way, and exploring the many options available. This paper will be endeavoring at expounding on how the growth of the mindset influences behavior, as well as learning and accomplishment in a person’s life.

Analysis

Contrary to what different persons believe, we can develop our minds until we achieve the ...

The article ‘Administrators of Special and Gifted Education: Preparing them for the Challenge’ by Mulligan, Neal and Singleton can be considered as a timely and relevant piece that has long been ignored. The enactment of the Public Law 94-142 - Education of All Handicapped Children Act also known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in 1975 is a major milestone in the United States’ education system. However, the act that aims to rehabilitate and educate children with special needs and disabilities through government funding and resources has its gaps and inadequacies. One particular gap that was identified is ...

Abstract

Great deal of children all over the world suffers from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Symptoms of ADHD include hyperactivity, emotionalism and difficulty of staying focused. Children with ADHD usually have the lack of comprehension skills, poor study results and problems with following instructions as a result, they are more likely to conflict with coevals and teachers. There are different types of ADHD treatments, the most common one is academic interventions which include manipulating antecedent conditions, parent tutoring, homework management programs, instructional modifications, self-monitoring. Self- monitoring technique is crucial for children with ADHD, as teaches them not only to regulate ...

For decades psychologists have debated whether nature or nurture is more important to human development. The argument revolves around the importance of the contribution between inherited versus environmental factors. John Stiles expressed in Brain Development and the Nature Versus Nurture Debate that philosophers like Plato were known as nativists (14). Nativists assume that the majority of behaviors are inherited and a direct result of genetic influence. Plato postulated that certain characteristics were inherited and would emerge regardless of an individual’s environment, or nurturing. Others, such as the well-known John Locke, believed in tabula rasa, which means that the mind ...

“In giving her existence, a great law had been broken; and the result was a being whose elements were perhaps beautiful and brilliant, but all in disorder, or with an order peculiar to themselves, amidst which the point of variety and arrangement was difficult or impossible to be discovered” (Hawthorne, Chapter 6 p. 98). The quote above generalizes Pearl’s character. She was the daughter of Hester Prynne, a woman living in the standards of the Puritan society condemned by the people as ‘brazen hussy’ who bears the scarlet letter ‘A’ fantastically embroidered upon her bosom (Hawthorne, Chapter 2 p. 57). ...

Management

Management The problem experienced in American education especially for the young children in school, is inefficiency in the effective flow of information for the measurement of individual and general district level performance. This in general makes it too much difficult to identify weak areas and those children who need immediate assistance so as to improve their performance. It has also been identified that there are very few children taking some subjects such as Algebra in public schools and even for those who have taken it are performing below the requirement grade. In the plans to arrange the ...

Introduction

Context and Thesis Statement Although Western countries have issued acts to support students with special needs to be taught in normal schools, as part of the inclusive education program, schools are still reluctant in receiving students with different types of disabilities, facing various challenges that refer to the prestige of the school, to meeting inclusion standards and regular examinations in this purpose or to installing increased bureaucratic educational demands (Konza, 2008). Schools’ attitudes towards the children with special educational needs vary between aiming for an inclusive education and between maintaining the elitist standards, where inclusive education is not ...

Learning in children is a complex undertaking. Psychologists agree that while the level of learning of the student is a function of a number of factors, the behavioral and instructional strategies employed by the teacher, is singled out as one of the main factors that is majorly ignored. While it's generally agreed in education circles that there are specific instructional and behavioral strategies that would universally work to enhance learning in children, it must be appreciated that such strategies would be unlikely to be all effective in all cases, and especially in cases involving different types of learners, typical, atypical and gifted. ...

The chapter opens with historical developments related to the measurements of various types of giftedness and identifies Alfred Binet as the pioneer of a developmental scale for children in the 1900’s. Lewis M. Terman is also credited for translating Binets scale to make it suitable for children in the US. The chapter also identifies a more recent theory, the theory of multiple intelligences, by V- Ramos Ford, which uses linguistic, spatial, musical, local mathematical, interpersonal and intrapersonal behaviors as a more objective measure of giftedness. The four major components of definitions developed to describe giftedness according to this chapter include ...

When a child demonstrates an unusual amount of intelligence way beyond their years, they are often referred to as child prodigies. Whether their exceptional talent is in music, arts or academics as long as their level of intelligence and talent appeared to match those belonging in the higher years, the child is indeed a prodigy. Through the years, the number of children prodigies are increasing particularly those that are entering college below 18 years old. The increase in their number represents a very real problem for the universities and the public in general. Some people believe that the amount of intelligence they ...