Fabricated Facts and Actualities about Giftedness

With the limited resources that the Traditional schools have and the inefficient training the our teachers go through have given way to a lot concoctions towards the gifted child's capacities and towards the true understanding of their needs. The general notion that prevails amid the teachers, parents and people in common is that these children can take care of themselves and are capable of learning on their own. This statement by far is just restricted to retaining its status as a NOTION by the researchers and scientists working on the brain.

With the little knowledge that I have acquired in this area, I would like to point out a few FABRICATED FACTS and the TRUTHS about these ingenious brains!

FF:

Gifted children have generic intellectual aptitude which make them gifted in all fields.

TRUTH:

Giftedness is conducive to a specific given domain of learning. A gifted child may not be gifted in all areas and also it is possible that the child is gifted in a specific area but is learning disabled in another.

FF:

Gifted are children who show extraordinary academic abilities.

TRUTH:

There is no logical advocacy for this myth. A child cannot be coined gifted merely on academic achievements. Even a child who does extremely well in music or dance or 3D imagination also is gifted in the given domains.

FF:

Being gifted = high IQs

TRUTH:

Little manifestation has been acquired regarding giftedness in music or arts in terms of IQ. Furthermore, IQ tests calibrates a biased range of competencies.

FF:

Co-operative learning in heterogeneous (diverse) groups provides academic benefits and can effectively substitute for specialised programs for scholastically skilled children.

TRUTH:

Recent studies have shown that gifted students benefit more if grouped with other gifted children, and that co-operative learning cannot substitute for specialised programs for these scholastically talented students.

FF:

Self-assertive parents who push their children to overachieve create gifted children
TRUTH:
Gifted children drive their parents crazy and are pushing them continually for extra stimulation, who are trying to accommodate their needs and nurture them.
FF:
The talented lot should keep pace with learning to read and write early.
TRUTH:
There is no correlation between reading and writing skills in these ingenious souls. Some children may learn to read extremely well but are pathetic at writing skills.
FF:
These gifted children grow up to becoming successful or become some eminent personality.
TRUTH:
Many a times these gifted children or prodigies go unnoticed in adulthood. Their talents go waste as they are not like one of the common lot. They have their own needs and not many parents or educators understand these specialised needs of the child.