Working with Gifted Children

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This essay discusses gifted children in the classroom. According to this paper, teachers, parents and others in the past, have not understood what it means to be gifted and what activities including learning centers can be designed to help gifted students. Simple techniques can be used to guide gifted children to explore, to create, to design, and to lead other children in different parts of learning centers and/or activities. Using gifted students as mentors and using creative learning centers are two ways to help all the students in the classroom. "

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"How would you change as a child advocator, your programming of activities and learning centers to include a child who is gifted along with all of the other children? The definition of gifted, "those who give evidence of high performance capability in areas as intellectual, creative, artistic, leadership capacity, or academic fields, and who require services or activities not ordinarily provided by the school" (Children Who Are Gifted 2002). "

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