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Stimulating Early Gifted Learners

Discover effective strategies to support early gifted learners characterized by overexcitabilities and asynchronous development. Understanding their heightened sensitivity, perfectionism, and intellectual needs is crucial for fostering a stimulating learning environment. This resource offers hands-on activities and questions tailored to various interests such as music, space, and geography. Educators and parents can explore options like ALM for young gifted learners and effective teaching methods to nurture their curiosity and creativity in safe and supportive spaces.

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Stimulating Early Gifted Learners

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  1. Stimulating Early Gifted Learners Lindsey Reinert Penelope Heinigk, Ph.D.

  2. Overexcitibilities Asychronouos development Perfectionism Social-emotional support Stamina Acute sense of justice

  3. Intellectual: need for continuous intense intellectual stimulation Imaginational: the tendency to create vivid dreams, fantasies, images, and visualizations of experiences Emotional: attachments and intense feelings Sensual: the need for sensory contact and sensory stimulation Psychomotor: movement and the excess of energy. Overexcitibilities: A greater capability to respond to stimuli

  4. Foundations of Learning • What is it? • What can I substitute it for? • How can I manipulate it? • What do I need know about it? • How can I look at it in different ways?

  5. Interests

  6. From the topics below, choose the one that is most interesting to you. Group 1: Music Group 2: Space Group 3: Dinosaurs Group 4: Maps/Geography Group 5: Plants/Gardening With your group-mates, brainstorm what hands-on resources, field trips, props, games, books, posters, experiences, etc. that could be used for a group of young students curious about the same topic.

  7. Questions Now with your group-mates, brainstorm some stimulating questions that you could use with young students who share the same interest.

  8. Resources & Options • ALM for Young Gifted Learners • Developing the Gifted & Talented Young Learner • Teaching Young Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom • Early Access (HB 1021) • Gifted programs, public & private • Wikispace

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