10 Social Emotional Needs of the Gifted
This website includes links that help us understand the following:
This website includes links that help us understand the following:
- Be aware that strengths and potential problems can be flip sides of the same coin.
- Gifted students’ physical, emotional, social and intellectual growth is often uneven.
- Gifted students may doubt that they are actually gifted.
- Gifted students may face social challenges not just from peers, but parents and teachers as well.
- As they get older, gifted students may take fewer risks.
- Gifted students can have surprisingly heightened emotionally sensitivity (pdf).
- Gifted students are often shy, know they’re shy, and know that shyness is often looked down upon.
- Gifted students’ abstract intuition may conflict with teachers’ desire for concrete thinking.
- Gifted students needs cannot be met by one style of learning.
- Gifted adults wish they were better informed about giftedness as children.