Something to Ponder. What the Research says about learning.
"Able students learn early in their educational lives that they can often get by with their own talents and therefore they never learn to study, fail, and persevere. By the time they reach high school.they have neither the skills nor the motivation to achieve at their previous levels. Underachievement that may have begun in grade 4 is now full-fledged despair." --Carol Tieso, Gifted Child Today May/June '99
  1. The brain is a parallel processor... it can attend to multiple input at once.
  2. Learning engages the entire physiology.
  3. The search for meaning is innate and occurs through patterning.
  4. Emotions are critical in making meaning and patterning.
  5. Learningis enhanced by challenge and inhibited by threat.
Quantum Teaching Tips. Gifted Boys.
  • Display colorful posters, pictures, charts, mobiles, overheads, etc.
(90% of learning is subconscious, color aids memory and retention.)
  • Use simulations, role- play, and real life projects.
  • Use a variety of input: lecture, video, reading, live experiences.
  • Allow learning to be expresses with sound, song, role plays, journals, models, movement, pictures.
  • Relate to the learner's past learning (scaffold the learning)
  • Use activities that reduce stress: humor, breathing, stretching, games.
  • Use activities that increase bonding: partner learning- discussions, dialogues.
  • Teachers call on boys 4 times more often than they call on girls.
  • They ask boys more challenging questions, girls less difficult questions.
  • Gifted boys are more likely than G/T girls to question authority, rebel, and be the class troublemakers.
  • Girls grow up faster than boys. In general, boys mature more slowly, especially in the verbal and reading areas.
Bright, active boys might be labeled "hyperactive", "distractible", or "disorderly". Galbraith, Judy.(1999) The Gifted Kids Survival Guide. Minneapolis, MN. Free Spirit Publishing Inc.