Stimulating Early Gifted Learners

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Stimulating Early Gifted Learners

• Lindsey Reinert
• Penelope Heinigk, Ph.D.

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Overexcitibilities Asychronouos
development Perfectionism Social-emotional
support Stamina Acute sense of justice
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Overexcitibilities A greater capability to
respond to stimuli

• 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.

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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?

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Interests
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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.
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Questions

• Now with your group-mates, brainstorm some
  stimulating questions that you could use with
  young students who share the same interest.

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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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