Gifted Knowing & Thinking: Research tells us what it looks like

The Melbourne Graduate School of Education's 2014 Deans Lecture Series
Presented by Associate Professor John Munro, MGSE

[lisaswaboda]

Gifted myself and a teacher for more than 2 decades. Education in the US is moving towards MORE structure and more stringent teaching approaches. Allowing flexibility in a classroom is a formidable hurdle.

[Bingleheimer]

Great presentation John! Thank you.
I'm 29 and revisiting and my Gifted/LD information to try and learn what works best for me in terms of learning approaches. The idea of needing to know why large concepts are the way they are and not just giving simple answers to questions rung true with me.
Does anyone have more professors or guides regarding gifted learning styles that I should look into? I doubt I'll get much traction from YouTube comments but ... worth a try.

[LeonardoGPN]

Not so long time ago talking with a friend I defined Intelligence as an affective interaction with some patterns of thinking that determines, among other things, the energy used in an intellectual task - unnecessary emotions to the task burn energy, and not having the necessary ones kills the motivation to complete the task. I think this is the function of the emotional regulation activation.

[malinijoseph]

Excellent presentation. I myself gifted and doing my Phd on gifted education. My daughter is diagnosed as gifted and i spoke to her teacher to know if there is something she could support in catering her educational needs within the classroom. I was shocked to understand that the teacher was first of all not interested in knowing what gifted means and in the meeting with principal and the teacher, they both are convinced that the class teacher don't think that my daughter is gifted.
I am not sure how to take it and what to expect from school in this situation.

[jimmyfortef]

This is a really well put together lecture

[dallinorr]

Thank you for this excellent presentation, and for making it freely available. I love living in the future. :)

[PURPLE.REIGN.]

Differentiation in US public schools is very challenging because most classrooms only have 1 teacher with limited teacher aides, and up to 30 students in one classroom. We have so many demands it is extremely frustrating.

[cleardayify]

Where can I read more about how Gifted students can learn to make their ideas accessible for non-gifted students (and later colleagues) ?

He said it a bit in the middle. I just need a few search terms, if anyone has them. x

[DaveWard-xcvd]

I am thrilled to see this lecture taking place.

Here in America gifted programs are being shutdown solely on the basis of lack of diversity. Too many white and Asian children in the gifted classes, too few black and Hispanic children.

There is an undercurrent in American education that is in opposition to scientific evidence and modern views on race and IQ.

Japan and China are capatilizing upon their gifted citizens. The United States will fall behind if we do not begin identifying and then cultivating our gifted citizens.

On a personal note I scored very high on verbal and spacial. I don't remember there having been gifted programs in my public school system. I was bored with school for the most part.

I later joined the Navy and became a Cryptologist. I was offered nuclear electronics but was found to be red green color deficient.

I now work in engineering, have 6 patents and have solved problems that others either couldn't recognize as problems or had no ability to solve.

What might I have accomplished had I been funneled into a gifted program early on?

[DaveWard-xcvd]

Are you familiar with Psychic Remote Viewing?

I am highly visual in my approach to problem solving.

I have a theory that some of the insights that I have may come from remoteviewing some future solution to the problem at hand.

[DaveWard-xcvd]

One point of criticism I must make.

You assume that teachers are capable of predicting what direction students might take on a particular subject.

Teachers may not be as intelligent as their students.