Translation of "Hoch begabten kindern" in English

For this see the article: Timidity and Apprehension in Gifted Children.

Out of this objective this manual is dedicated to the gifted child.

There are all kinds of negative labellings of gifted children.

Three very different projects with especially gifted children can be found here:

It is easy to teach gifted children how to read.

The gifted children had great fun determining different algorithms.

Simultaneously I intended to meet the needs of the gifted children.

Especially social skills are often seen to be a critical point with the gifted child.

Working with gifted children and young people is a very demanding area.

A sophisticated project which also provides sufficient challenges for gifted children.

Learning in good projects suits gifted children perfectly.

Some of these examples refer to very highly gifted children.

This generally true and valid pedagogic principle continues to be violated with regard to gifted children.

By means of such advancement negative developments, which gifted children might otherwise experience at an early age, can be avoided.

During my many years of working with gifted children, I was able to learn to assess whether giftedness is present.

The urge to belong to a group can inhibit gifted children's and adolescents' ‘normal socialbehaviour’.

Then comes a point in the development of a child, and gifted children may get there as early as the beginning of their 4 th year when they understand, that behind the letters on the page lies a text which contains information.

Yet, isn’t it remarkable that out of ten gifted children not one even conceived of the possibility that the princess might simply go and say the right answer.

Foremost we have continuously become more secure and experienced in dealing with gifted children and their parents, many ideas for advancement measures have been realised successfully.

He distinguishes five congenital special sensitivities („overexcitabilitis“ – abbreviated OE), which occur in gifted children in different mixtures and intensities and strongly determine their personality:

With regard to gifted children there is frequent talk of perfectionism, which invokes rather negative feelings.

This shows positive social conduct – and at the same time it demonstrates the strong optimizing program at work in gifted children at all times, leading them to less laborious, even elegant solutions.

If gifted children then lose their tendency to divergent thinking because they had to make the above mentioned experiences too often, then creative processes and achievements become rather unlikely.

You can use this manual to check for yourself to what extent your kindergarten is already suitable for gifted children.

Even young gifted children are visibly perked up when they find adequate playing mates with whom they can have meaningful conversations.

This, however, requires that the person conducting the test is knowledgable about the phenomenon of giftedness and experienced in dealing with gifted children.

This is why it appears pointless to me to try and change this in the very young and possibly gifted children.

It is not suitable for whole groups – frustration on the side of the kindergarten teacher and more so on the side of the children is to be expected when questions are not being understood, which is highly probable for 3 – 4 years old children who are not gifted.

It also helps us to detect highly gifted children who have received comparatively little support so far.

With all these behavioural patterns gifted children show us what they need – and it is that same thing which helps those gifted children who are not able to help themselves.