Wednesday, December 22, 2010

What is gifted and talented?

Many terms are used to describe the students who demonstrate exceptional talent, and sometimes these terms themselves become a challenge to understand. Gifted is the most commonly used word, but it has hundreds of definitions, from legal to jargon. Talented usually describes an individual with performance skill that has been refined through practice, such as music and dance.
For Gagne (1985), giftedness is above-average-aptitud in creative and intellectual abilities, and talent is above average performance in an area of human activity, such as music, mathematics , or literature.
In general, gifted person is defined as one who demonstrates an exceptionally high level of peformance in one or more areas of human endeavor.

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