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Gifted Education
General terms and issues
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Graduate
10/14/2007

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Twice Exceptional

Definition

Quality of being both gifted and having a physical, and emotional, or a learning disability.

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Asperger Syndrome
Definition
a conditional characterized by severely impaired social skills and the occurrence of repetitive or restrictive behaviors that keep highly able children from learning some skills and developing socially.
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Asynchronous Development
Definition
Also referred to as uneven integration, this is development in which intellectual growth is ahead of physical and social and / or emotional development.
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perfectionism
Definition
having exceedingly high expections about how one can or should perform academically or inother areas
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cluster grouping
Definition
Assigning students of the same grade level who have been identified as gifted to a small instructional group within a class of other wise heterogeneously grouped students
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underrepresented populations
Definition
groups traditionally excluded from many gifted education programs, including fifted girls, ethnic and cultural minorities, economically
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multiple inteligence
Definition
different ways of learning and processing information, as identified by psychologist Howard Gardner.  Each student has relative strengths and weaknesses within these domains-linguistic, musical, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial,bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal,intrapersonal,and naturalistic
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blooms techonomy
Definition
classification of thinking into six levels of increasing complexity, knowledge,comprehension,application,analysis,synthesis, and evaluation
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Underachievement Underperformance
Definition
school performance that falls far short of a student's ability
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Emotional Intelligence
Definition
A form of intelligence-characterized by profound self-awareness, self-motivation, empathy,persistence, and social ability
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Growth of intelligence
Definition
Depends on the interaction between our biological inheritance and our environment opportunities to use that inheritance
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Intelligence
Definition
the aggregate of an individuals cognitive, affective, physical, and intuitive functioning.
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Giftedness
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is a biologically rooted concept that serves as a label for a high level of intelligene and indicates an advanced and accelerated developmentof functions within the brain.
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Gifted Individuals



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are those who have developed high levels of intelligence and therefore operate or perform, or show promise of operating or performing, at high levels in any of the areas of intelligence.
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Talent Development
Definition
involves the deliberate and planned effort to provide children with an enriched and responsive learning environment both at home and at school so that all of their talents and abilities will have the opportunity to develop to maximum levels.
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Definition
If intelligence is used to connote only that which is measured by intelligence tests then those who score in the upper _______  on such a test could be spoken of as gifted .
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Asynchrony
Definition
refers to the uneven rates of cognitive, emotional, and physical development found in gifted children.
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genius
Definition
exceptionally or profoundly gifted individuals.  Highly gifted tend to evidence more energy than gifted individuals; they think faster and are more intent and focused on their interests and they exhibit a highter degree of ability in most of the traits we have identifies with giftedness.
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two standard deviations
Definition
the highly gifted child to be performing two standard deviations above the average child
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moderately gifted children
Definition
waste nearly half of their time in a regular classroom and exceptionally giftd children waste almost all of their time
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prodigy
Definition
a child who is performing at the level of an adult professional in a cognitively demanding field before the age of 10
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group test
Definition
present additional problems by being so easy that highly gifted children read more into the items than was intended by teh test constructor
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creativity
Definition
can be promoted by ambiguity
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value originality
Definition
common charicteristic of someone who promotes creativity is that they value originality
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4 areas of criteria
Definition
motivation
inteligence
creativity
achievement
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gifted cordinators
Definition
Price
Schultz
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From the first years of school, girls learn to
Definition
conceal their talents by imitating the behavior of the children with whom they are placed
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African American
Definition
shows more clear alighnment to the behaviors of the socioeconomic status level
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American Indian
Definition
nature and natural resources are personal
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Asian
Definition
found to have a high degree of self-descipline and self-motivation
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Hispanic
Definition
cultural attitudes and values related to family cohesiveness have been associated with the lack of development of a separate sense of identity
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situational Underachieving Gifted Stidemts

Definition
those who underachieve only on occasion such as when a particularly difficult home problem erupts or a clash occurs with one particular teacher
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Chronic underachiever
Definition
pattern recurs again and again, presents a problem particularly resistant to remediation
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