02 October 2010

The Giftedness in some children as a Problem in their learning and how they are considered as special need children?

We now also familiarise the gifted child as the one who learns much easily ,enjoys self-initiatives tasks ,with very little supervision ,does work in a much stimulated mood and enjoys education.Could the teacher not going to be a stumbling block for this kind of child's behaviours? These qualities easily turned into disadvantages for the gifted child. The teacher can easily ignore fast learners as putting more effort to slow learners to catch up with this fast learners as far as grasping and mastering of concepts is concerned.Therefore the gifted child depite
any advantages can be a problem at school.
In the classroom teachers are concerned with individual differences. Instructions are repeated in different ways and at different levels of understanding . This concludes the teacher's concerns in recognition of the uniqueness of every child in the classroom. The instructions are usually staged to meet the levels of all learners ,that's fast , average and slow learners. The individual help is mostly remedial work to assist the slow learners. The brighter ,fast learners are usually put at bay to wait for the slow learners to catch up with others. They only showered with good marks and praises ,but cannot compensate for boredom. Boredom push
the gifted children to do something that can occupy them .
This may start by talking to other children less able to understand the concepts so that the teacher can make progress. The teacher regards a talkative child as making unnecessary noise. As a means of avoiding the teacher this gifted children condemn themselves into withdrawal reaction and develop the daydreaming habits.
Daydreaming might cause the gifted child to develop a tendency of not bothering to listen to teachers 's carefully prepared instructions and thereby ending up achieving far less than the child is capable of attaining. Daydreaming can lead into some other bad habits. The gifted children may rush through any given tasks with the aim of lapsing into daydreaming about interesting tasks that could be done at home.
A gifted child realised that s/he is always far ahead of the rest of the class in tackling given tasks might sit back and relax. The child develops a show off and eventually become passive. This will obviously cause the child to be complacent ,lose drive and persistence in doing school work. This unfortunate development could be un covered or if the child is matched with intellectual equals.
A gifted acquire unusual information on skills outside the classroom and school in general. Then the gifted will ask questions or give suggestions based on the acquired experiences .
The questions might be outside the teacher's routine approach to the subject.A gifted child can be troublesome not only to the teacher ,but also to classmates. For example in the topic:' food produced somewhere' ,the teacher might be interested in naming types of food produced somewhere. But a gifted child is probitive so may further want to know more about the food listed. The child might probed the teacher where the food mentioned produced in and why not available in other areas? This question could disturb the teacher 's detaile lesson plan and the flow of the lesson and makes it difficulty to meet the lesson objectives. Furthermore the gifted child's deeper probition is lakely to be labelled a nuisance by the teacher and probably treated harshly. The teacher's hostile reaction might dampen and frustrate the gifted child who became quite right away and only resort to use of silence and the brain conditioned to passiviness ,thus being developed into retardation.
The disciplinary problems may also eminate from a gifted child ,who is usually more intelligent above the level of the age. Troublesome in discipline and orderly instructions is common in these children who also referred to as an under achievers or a behaviour problem. Teachers should also be firm to the attention to the fast learners as much as they do to slow learners so that they can help them to nurture their talent to help the community as responsible citizens.

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