Sunday, April 3, 2011

DEFINITION OF GIFTED AND TALENTED

Elementary and Secondary Education Act : 

Students identified as gifted and talented based upon intellect or high test scoring, academic aptitude, creative or productive thinking, leadership ability, visual and performing arts skills and psychomotor ability, such as practical, spatial, mechanical and physical skills. “Students, children, or youth who give evidence of high achievement capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic, or leadership capacity, or in specific academic fields, and who need ...


Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There is no standard global definition of what a gifted student is

Federal governmen

Gifted and talented children are those who by virtue of their outstanding abilities are capable of high performance.  These are children whose potentialities require differentiated education programs and/or services beyond those normally performance include those with demonstrated achievement or potential ability in any of the following areas, individually or in combination: general intellectual ability, specifiic academic aptitude, creative or productive thinking, leadership ability, visual and performing arts.

US Department of Education, 1993.

Children and youth with outstanding talent who perform or show the potential for performing at remarkably high levels of accomplishment when compared with others of their age, experience, or environment

Famous Gifted People

Real Men and Women of Genius

Here is a short list of famous gifted and exceptional people.
  1. Albert Einstein is obviously at the top of the list. But Einstein, as a child, could have been frustrating for his parents and teachers. According to stories about him, Einstein never learned to speak until he was four years old. Then, he had the bizarre habit of mumbling something first before saying anything out loud. His giftedness was obvious at a young age because he was always at the top of his class. But he hated school because he believed that the strict rules and rote learning held back his creativity. Eventually, one of his greatest works, the theory of relativity, left a new trail in the world of physics. Could your routines in the classroom hold back your students' creativity? Try something new and unexpected.
  2. Thomas Alva Edison is probably the greatest inventor of all time. With more than a thousand patents in his name, including the light bulb and the phonograph, he certainly deserves the honor of being called the "wizard of Menlo Park." But when he was a child, he was struck with scarlet fever that probably led to hearing problems. In school, his teachers complained that he inattentive. The teachers were not happy with his daydreaming that in the end, he had to be homeschooled. Have you given up on any of your gifted students? Maybe that student's entrepreneurial spirit just needed a nudge in the right direction.
  3. Leonardo Da Vinci is the quintessential Renaissance Man. He was an engineer and a painter, a mathematician and a musician, a writer and an architect. His talent and giftedness were honed during his many years of apprenticeship with master craftsmen and painters, such as Verrochio. Da Vinci, of course, had more talent than his masters, but he owed his learning to them. Your students will have IQs that would be higher or lower than yours. But you are their source of learning.
  4. Marie Curie, born Maria Sklodowska, was a star pupil. Despite bankruptcy of the family and political turmoil, she was nurtured emotionally and intellectually by her father. But at 15, after graduating at the top of her class, she suffered a nervous breakdown. After a year of rest, she went on to attend an underground medical school because the oppressive regime of the czar does not allow women to get higher education. She went on to become the Mother of Modern Physics after being awarded twice with the Nobel Prize. Gifted and talented students are not immune to problems. But if given the chance, they can move on and do great things.
These are just some of the famous and gifted exceptional people. They faced seemingly insurmountable challenges but they had mentors, like you, who helped them become successful and exceptional.


 

Saturday, April 2, 2011

SCHOOL BASED PROJECT - PERIMETER

PENGENALAN KEPADA MASALAH
1.1 Pengenalan
Pembelajaran adalah perubahan tingkah laku yang berlaku semasa proses memperolehi ilmu pengetahuan atau kemahiran. Perubahan tingkah laku melalui pembelajaran iaitu perubahan yang lebih maju, lebih tinggi dan lebih baik daripada tingkah laku yang sedia ada sebelum aktiviti pembelajaran melalui suatu proses yang berlaku dalam akal fikiran atau lebih dikenali sebagai kognitif. Apa yang penting dalam proses pembelajaran ialah hasil yang diperolehi selepas sesuatu proses itu dijalankan.
Menurut Robert M. Gagne (1970) dalam The Condition of Learning, pembelajaran merupakan “perubahan tingkahlaku atau kebolehan seseorang yang dapat dikekalkan, tidak termasuk perubahan yang disebabkan proses pertumbuhan”.
Manakala mengikut Woolfolk (1980) dalam Educational Psychology for Teachers, pembelajaran dilihat sebagai perubahan dalaman yang berlaku kepada seseorang dengan membentuk perkaitan yang baru, atau sebagai potensi yang sanggup menghasilkan tindak balas yang baru.
Seterusnya pembelajaran itu merupakan satu proses yang berterusan dimana ia boleh berlaku secara formal atau tak formal. Pembelajaran atau pendidikan secara formal biasanya akan berlaku di sekolah manakal pembelajaran tidak formal ialah pembelajaran melalui rakan sebaya, keluarga, media massa atau persekitaran. Pembelajaran juga mempunyai teori yang tersendiri.


1.2 Latar belakang projek

Projek ini dijalankan bagi memberi peluang kepada pelajar pintar cerdas keluar dari kepompong dunia pembelajaran yang membosankan dan tidak mencabar. Projek yang dijalankan adalah berteraskan kepada hasil pembelajaran dalam tajuk “Two Dimensional Shapes- find the perimeter of two composite shapes” bagi  matapelajaran matematik tahun 6.

1.3 Tujuan dan objektif kajian

Projek berkaitan perimeter ini dijalankan bagi memberikan satu tugasan yang agak mencabar kepada kanak-