This is for gifted children or, adults?

Question

If your a gifted child than do you have to have to pay attention in class or do you just get the subject?

tell me about being gifted

Answer 1

sometimes you get it but you have zero interest so it appears you are not understanding

Answer 2

Okay, I am in the gifted program at my school.

I am currently in 9th grade.

When I was in elementary school I got tested, and was classified as "Gifted". I took different classes than many of my other classmates. Like for instance, I am in Geometry, where as the majority of the 9th grade class is taking Algebra.

Apparently were faster learners, but overall its not to different.

I doze of somedays but when I want to pay attention I do.

But, before test I usually find myself craming in study time.

But, eventually gifted switches over to AP classes which anyone has the opportunity to take without being tested.

Answer 3

A gifted child tends to constantly want to learn in order to stimulate his/her brain.  This means they pretty much can't help but pay attention.  The typical child who is labeled "gifted" picks up most subjects pretty quickly and begins to toy with it, often seeing where else it can be applied and trying to see how it fits into his/her world concept.

Answer 4

:D

One of these days those teachers, the ones who proclaim and verify the "gifted" among us, are going to find themselves working side-by-side with those same fully-grown "gifted" adults.

I'd love to be there to see it.

Can you just imagine it?

Answer 5

The plus side: you often just "get" things, and you never understand why you do, you just do. So you accumulate knowledge -- and get good grades -- with very little effort.

The down side: You're often bored out of your mind because your mind craves knowledge, and you're waiting for your classmates to "get it." It can also come as  a nasty shock the day you run across something you don't "get" (which can happen even to the gifted!) if you've no idea how to "work for it." (Then again, having to "work for it" gives your mind the challenge it so craves.)

You also tend to think differently from most of the people around you, and it can make for some lonely times. It's definitely a double-edged sword, but I wouldn't give it up.

Answer 6

Yes, you have to pay attention in class.  "Gifted" might mean high IQ but you can also be gifted in Art, Music or sports.  Gifted usually means that the student requires a higher level of education/ more difficult work than his/her peers.

Answer 7

I am the mom of a gifted student, she paid attention and did her homework, to perfection.  She would write papers and re-write them until they were perfect.  Some choose to just linger in class but I find most out there study as hard or harder.  She took Algebra 1 in 7th grade.

Answer 8

in elementary and middle school it wasn't that hard to just not pay attention and still get an A.  but highschool is tougher for me.

Answer 9

I was considered gifted in school, and while I still had to pay attention in class, things just came more naturally to me.  For instance, I didn't have to study as hard or spend as long on my homework.  It was great because it was easy for me to get straight A's, but other students were jealous that I could do so well with so little effort.  Being gifted definitely had its pros and cons.

Answer 10

i pay attention because I am gifted because I study and work hard. No one knows everything when they  are born.

Answer 11

The politically correct answer is what barney will tell you any day:  We're all special!

And that holds some truth of course, but that's not what this girl is asking.  So those of you who gave that answer, you're on a tangent...

Where I grew up, it was called the "honors" program, but I'm pretty sure it's the same idea.  Its a select level of classes reserved for the students who have shown the capacity to go above and beyond the normal level of competence.

But from my experience at least, many of the kids in the "honors" or "gifted" program were very much NOT gifted.  They were just slightly above the normal level and were willing to work their asses off in order to accomplish work at the "honors" level.  So in terms of school, the "gifted" program isn't really as exclusive as you might think.  There are some kids in these classes that are able to sleep through every single class and still get straight A's, and there are other kids in these classes who struggle in order to merely get a mix of A's and B's.  There isn't only one type of student in these classes.

If you're trying to decide whether you want to enter the "gifted" program (as I'm assuming is your reason for asking this question), then I would say that you should try to get a look at what kind of work is going to be expected of you.  Look and see how easy you think it will be for you and then decide whether you are willing to put in the extra effort if it looks like it is going to be difficult.  You should also find out what the process is to switch back from "gifted" to "regular" classes (if it's an easy switch to go back to regular classes, then it can't hurt to try it!).

Good Luck!

Answer 12

You seem to just "Get it", because you already understand underlying concepts. The caveat for gifteds in regular schooling is that it is too easy to become intellectually lazy because you aren't mentally challenged.

Answer 13

I just paid attention in class and rarely cracked a book.  Except for math - I'm terrible at math! I made it through college with a 3.0.  Yeah, it's not great, but I spent the first year goofing off and then had to make dean's list a bunch of times to make that GPA.

Being "gufted" is great.  I got out of the regular reading classes and got to do fun, creative things.  I got more personal attention b/c there were only a handful of us. Then in high school, I was allowed to pick the class that I wanted more work.  It was a very fleixble program at my school and not really regulated.

Answer 14

I was identified as "gifted".  All that really meant was that I didn't have to actually listen at all in class, or do homework and I would still ace any exam I took. This held true for regular level classes like health, advanced classes, like the majority of my courses, or AP classes, which I took jr. and sr. years.  I read on a college level when I was entering sixth grade, so my parents had to censor my reading material to make sure I didn't read concepts they didn't want me to learn about yet. I hated school because even in the higher level classes I got stuff way faster then most others, so I sat there bored for hours in the day. It irks me that so much focus and money goes into keeping kids who don't even want to learn progressing, when there are others like me who would have loved being challenged but schools can't afford it.

Answer 15

just get it