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Characteristics
of High Ability or Gifted Children 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Renzulli’s Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM), adopted by Timberlane, there are two types of

gifted students: the school-house gifted and the creative productive gifted child.The following sites

share characteristics for both.  Each type of giftedness is needed and  important.  They must be

encouraged and challenged.  Students often flow from one type to another, depending on their needs

or stages of growth in their learning.

 

Hoagies’ Gifted Education Page  :  http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/characteristics.htm

 

Rhode Island’s Gifted Education Pages:  http://www.ri.net/gifted_talented/character.html

 

General characteristics lists and domain specific characteristics lists:

 http://www.austega.com/gifted/characteristics.htm