THE GIFT!-JD CHILD 5, a.c. iranirick. High School Teacher. Peaticton. B.C.

Recently a number of articles deploflllg the waste of talent of our gifted children have appeared in several magazines. While a few schools are trying to correct this situation. many are not. it is not wough for me larger t.ntres to mid special classes for the gifted; ,.-ery teacher should do ills best (or every gifted child in his class. p is the purpose of this article to wggest ways and means in which the teacher can help to get the most out of these students. Bright students who need only average or below average work become bored, and either develop lazy hab-

or r disciplineproblems.

Thc gifted child does not learn from the same stimuli and method that the average child does; there- fore. in order to do an effective job of teaching him. the teaching methods must differ from those ordinarily used. The loss of the benefit from the gifted child's tal- enl can be attributed mainly to non-recognition of his talent or in- correct teaching methods employ- ed. it is ever: teacher's duty to attend to these matters.

According to Dr. M. Freehill. "gifted." roughly refers to stud- ents with I.Q. of 140 and up. and ”moderately gifted", an 1.0. of 120-140. (It should be noted here that if a number of 1.0. scores for a child are known. his lowest possible I.Q. would be the highest known score. It is known that he is capable of doing work at that level and possibly at a lower one.)

In the "Education of Exception- sl Chlldren- 49th Year Book". it is stated, "Equal opportunity doesn't mean identical; individual capaci- ties maust be considered". This means that each child should be given the opportunity to develop his talents to his own capacity. The gifted child needs, and is en- titled to. as much consideration as the dull one.

The L0. is fairly permanent. The lower the 1.0. the more per- manent It is. A student with a rating of 80 is likely to remain at that level. but one with a high rating might be raised as much as fit? points with good environment and by using good teaching meth-

ods.

Intelligence is common to all areas. Ability to organize and generalize in one area indicates ability in others. However. all areas may not be-used because of lack of interest or time. Cor- relation between intelligence and school grades drops off at the high end of the l.Q. curve. The best marks are usually made by stud- ants in the 110-120 range.

Alt. plishment alone is not an indication of brightness. It de- pends upon intelligence and drive. so that marks obtained by a stud- ent of high I.Q. could be equalled by a person of lesser ability who works harder.

One of the main cliaracterlstlcs of the bright child is his organiz- ing and planning ability. He can make better use of reference books and the library; he can or- ganize activities for the pupils foften to a higher degree than they wish); he makes a good per- son to have on a student council.

Another of his great abilities is that of generalizing. He frequently uses slmlles and metaphores in his descriptions. "Like" and "As" are common words in his vocabul- ary.

PRECOCITY

Precocity is a true indication of brightness. although lack of it is not an indication of dullness. The bright child is able to do any-

thing at an earlier age titan the dull one. (it must be noted that he has the ability. but he may not use it for one reason or ano- ther.) This involves speed of learn- ing. fewer examples required. few practices. few illustrations and greater retentiveness.

The bright child is able to talk and read at an earlier 'age. Oc- casionally he doesn't do it. some times he takes in everything with- out saying much. One extremely bright child was thought to be on the dull side because he didn't speak a word for the longest time. However, his first words showed that he hadn't missed much. His parents were discussing a visit to grandmother when Junior sudden- ly said. ”Which one, Brown or Green?" The father replied. "Green". whereupon the youngst- er said: "Well. why didn't you say so in the first place?"

The intelligent child reads fast- er and understands more of what he reads. He has a longer at- tention span. He recognizes relat- ionships. and so they should be pointed out to him. He has the air ility to take, maintain and criti- cize a direction for the solution to a problem. He has a desire to ex- plore and invent: originality and curiosity are valuable traits to him. It is because of these char- acteristics that we must do all we can to get the most out of the bright people; the world of today needs their talents.

He has a wide range of interests both in school subjects and out-of school activities. History. geogra- phy. science. English language are popular subjects with him. while mathematical manipulation, spell- ing and grammar are not. He is usually a collector, and makes an exceptionally good job of organ”- ing his collections. Thinkins is It a more abstract level. and there is a greater perception of detail. This lhtter fact ofl-en SW95 3"

fore formal testing can be done- Performance in special-Interesl areas is consistently superior. III mastery of the curriculum the bright child is accelerated about 44 per cent . The learning profile of tiie gift- ed child is different from that of others. Although he is stiPel'l0l "1 all departments his superiority varies. It is greatest in reading. language usage. reasoning. ' , literature and arts, and least in computation. spelling. fac- tual informaiion. and other rout- ine matlers. He has less patience with routine procedures and drill. He doesn't need as much drill as the average child and shouldn't be bored with it: otherwise he will lose interest acquire lazy habits or become a discipline qn 'lem. The gifted child has the ability to verballze in varying terms. It is wise procedure to present mat- erlal to him in a variety of ways. Genius works with great energy and zeal. The aim and motivation is often just the solution to the problem. Many a genius has work- ed long hours just to have the satisfaction of accomplishing what he set out to do. SUCCESS VARIES Gifted children do well in col- lege. but not always as adults. Whether or not the potentialities are used to a great extent often depends on the teaching method used. It is essential thatthigh in- telligence be diagnosed early in life. and that students with high I.Q.'s be taught differently. The bright child also likes to play games of older children. He prefers games that require think- lng. and his interest in organized sorts is weak. When young. he

IN MEMORIAM

MR8. LAURA Q. HARPER

(Continued from April 27).

CARDS OF SYMPATHY

Duncan and Viola liIacPherson Bert and Annie Smith

Marjorie and Harry MacLauchlaa Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hoy

Stewart and Rossie

Joan and Ray

Nell and Christina Darrach Wilfred and Alice Holmes

ltlrs. Bevan

(lean and Leonard Vaicher. Dart-

mouth

The Love's

Gertie Duffy. Brantford

Victor and Gertie Purdy

Helen and Bob Dalzlel

Mary and Margaret Irving

Mrs. W.W. Thompson. Halifax Alice and Eric Wilson

Mr. and Mrs. L.W. Saunders Elsie Crockett

Katie and Lloyd Jenkins

Laura and Will Coiley

Marion Ryan

Dorothy and Wylie

Kallie and Jack Herman

Flora and Joe Neale

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Buzzle.

French River Jean and Harold Diamond and family

Mrs. MICLQOCI and family

G8! and Stan Lancaster

saadra Maalay

Ella and Archie Auld

P.E.l. Hospital Nurses' Alumnae Sally Dalsiel

Mrs. Edgar Hearts

Arthur and Cyrano Robertson Ethel and Ivan Bryantoa

Bee and tscab Newsor

East Royalty Women's Institute Mr. and Mrs. Harry Slackford Nan and Jack Kirby

Frances and Da Nea'

Id Mrs. Frank Kelly and

tie Gladys Macflillaa Mrs. ltasaaay Auid Mlrlorlo end Preston Rodd

D. Gordon and Lillian Maccalltnn Mrs. PM. Andrew and family

Stan and Kay Thompson Ag! and George Campbell. Rollo

1! Marv and Kan Mcbaws. Toronto lltl Mrs. J.W. Blanchard .Aaate ashes

Katie and Harold Webster. Morell

Victor and Nettle Macwilliams. Sour-is

Holness family. Toronto

Sybil Gordon and Lelgha Jamleson

Marion and Newton Large

Lena and Lorraine Scott

Peggy and Allison llfacKinnon

Hilda and George Dingwell. Fort- une Bridge

Claude. Joyce and Annie Macl(en- zie. Bay Fortune

Myrtle and Harold Storey

Estelle and Elijah Roach

Jim and Zilpha Smith

Murray and Irene Dobier. Toronto

Bertha and Robert Brown

Eileen Burke

Lily Dewar

Malcolm and Lorna Darrach

Ralph. Reta Bevan and family

Aubrey. Sadie and Jackie Aitken. Bay Fortune

Joyce Stead. Howe Bay

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Duffy. Ft. Augustus

Mrs. Georgie Bernard andtfamiiy. Long filver

Doreen Vickerson. Ottawa

Hiidl Swan

Kay Dalzlel. R.N.

Ruth Smith and fainlly

Sue and Harry Burke. Fortune Bridge

Hattie and Stella Macliwen. Rollo Bay

Annie Poole

Marilyn Seaman

Irwin Christian Fellowship Group

Margaret and Bob MacKlnnon

Wallis and Peggy MacKenzia. Sou-

rls Arthur and Marguerite Wood. Rol-

lo ay

The Afternoon Aux. W.M.I. Trin- ity Unlted Church

Ella and Charlie Coffin and fam- ily. Bay Fortune

early clue to brightness. even be- it

WIDENING EDUCATIONAL HORIZONS

creates more imaginary playmat. es than the average child, H. will invent games and will find mo” '0 OCCIIPY his mind. He can Play 't;.' himself for a longer time without becoming bored.

S el f-criticism. self-cuiifitieiice and perseverance are atlributgg of high intelligence.

The gifted child has a more var. lable personality. He is less in. clined to boast. He likes people and desires adult acceptance. This is an important fact to be kept in mind wh:n teaching him. Soc. ial sense comes in flashes. and is not normally shown in day-by-day behaviour. He is emotionally more stable. He has a high rating in dependability. friendliness. happi. ness. honesty. originality, liking of jokes. self-control. self-reliance, ambition, investigation. and lead- ership. On the average he is slight- ly superior in height and health.

Adjustment is m re difficult for the bright child. Children of his own age do. not understand him.

and he is bored with many of '

their activities. in fact. he is not understood by his peers through-

out life. Many of his good ideas .

are not-accepted because they are not understood. The most popular ideas are not necessarily the best. Social problems are greatest with those who have the highest intel- ligence.

IMPATIENCE

Impatience is often I cliarat-L eristlc of the intelligent child. Sol- ving a problem is an urgent pro- blem to him. His reward is in the solving. and he usually needs no other motivation than the problem itself. He is likely to be restless. He has a wide variety of likes and dislikes. His dislikes are us- ually things which to him seem too juvenile. He is operating at the level of children several years old- er than himself.

Mental illness is not due to high intelligence. but to the treatment often receives. Geniuses are often ignored because they are not understood. and small child- ren in particular are mean to- ward others they don't under- stand.

There are two methods of identi- fying the gified child. The first is by observation. This can be start- ed st quite an early age. Later it is complemented by interviews. Answers to selected questions can give valuable information as to the intelligence of the child. The quest- ions are based on the characteriza- tion of the gifted child so that the answers reveal the information re- qulred.

Bright pupils are harder to judge because of the multiple sol- utions to problems they have. By observation girls are usually over- rated and boys underrated. Phy- sicalv social and emotional char- acteriatics must be continually ob- served.

The second metlmd of identifi- cation is by formal testing. Some early testing can be done at the age of three. and fairly good re- sults are obtained at the age of six. The best single item is the lntellig .ce test. although other tests such as the aptitude tests and observation should be taken into account as well.

The ideas in this article should enable the teache to identify the gifted ichlld. However. nothing is gained if the teacher does nothing about varying his teaching method accordingly.

This department is conducted by the Prince Edward Island Teach- ers' Federation. Contributions are welcomed and should be sent to Estelle Bowness. General Secret- ary. 98 Prince St.. Charlottetown.

Alena and Stuart Beamer. Toronto

Irene and Edison Hardy

Leith. Isabelle and Pat Jay

Noreen and Roy Purssy

Helen Wilson

Charlie and Bessie Phillips

Egllngton and Howe Bay Women's Institute

Jean and George Jackson, Fort- itne Bridge

Lulu. Vernon and Hazel Davidson

Willing Workers' Church lGroup. Tnionto

Gladys and Charles Stead, Howe Bay

Lizzie. Allie and Earle

Mrs. Lawson Oaks

George Wood. Toronto

CARD OF THANKS

The family of the late Mrs. G.H. Harper wishes to express their sin- cere thanks and appreciation to the ministers. Rev. A.F. MacLean and Rev. G.H. Christie. and to their kind relatives and friends who helped in any way during their recent sari bereavement. And to thou! who sent flowers. letters and cards of sympathy.

Mrs. Neil Diamond 236 Grafton Street.

SHRINK REVENUE STAMP

WASHINGTON (AP) '1' h e United States Internal revenue service is going to shrink Dewitt Clinton's picture a fraction of an inch. saving American taxpayers an estimated 8250.000 a year. The picture of the New York lovlrnor who built the Erie canal graces the revenue stamp on every American clgaret package. The service will cut do n the width of the stamp

by 8-1 of an inch.

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SUCCESS.

COMMON-SENSE WAY

Why lose your ltair and break your neck

By thoughtlessly trying to act "on spec?"

Why wear yourself down or about yourself hoarse

By putting the cart before the horse?

The horse is a horse and a cart:

While driving itself is a special art.

This art. more precious than rubies and gold

Walsda secret held by the Seer: of o .

This secret. still is titers to find Beyond the dividing distracting

mui . If this horsy mind has its own free

way. ' . You'll land in a ditch with the devil to pay.

But if ruled by unity. plain and clear The road to happiness sill appear.

For the biggest wars between giant states- Like your own particular loves and

hates.- ' Through contemplations unitlva Aikelezvimsed by seeing- instead of ONE. TWO.

So take time off "to stand and

where: V H , Surrender the "special. whats "common" adopt.

Don't ever use force. but aiwayll

co-opt.

When opponent find you don't re- . I f.

Yt:fiq'll find that prhblems cease to

l. "(I5 -G. Raja Gopal. South. Granville. -

HOLT HITS SLEEPING GIRL

ST. THOMAS, Ont. (C-Pl -- A lightning bolt hit a house near here Sunday. singed a Kirl's eyel85ll98. deafened an ear and sending ceil- ing plaster showering down on her bed where she was sleeping. Jean Buckrell. 19 said she heard a "bill bang" saw a flash of light and jumped up and ran out of the room. The bolt set a small fire in the bedroom.

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FIRES AT N. Y. CHURCH GROUP

Tuesday. May 8. 1956

NEW YORK (AP) - A sniper fired at hundreds of worshippers outside an Eastern Orthodox Church late Saturday night. killing a church warden and wounding five other persons. A screaming panic ensued.

The shots may have beepin- tended for the church's anti-com- munist refugee priest. Very Rev. Florian Gladau- or for Romania's former princess Ileana. sister of the late ex-king Carol.

Both were inside the church and neither were hurt.

Within hours police began hunt-

Sniper Touches Off Panic

ing a man identified as Tony Tud- those 1 i . . - . orache. about 60, occupant of an James 1,31-l,:m.(,," g:.(dlfmK' deluule apartment across the street in) The shooting was a ii-am. climax which a rifle and spent shells wera'to a colorful orthodox easier cel. Ure television is the main differ. l0,lllfl:- h I k Ebrvalln-n. lence between living here and back u orac e- aso nown as Tony tasili Cut-xiia, uas adjlhllngrln the Arctic.

SW83 lull Cllilllchl Mlhalachba podium at HIP head of the sic-psi The trio from Aklavik in the 218.3 desci'lbfd by police as I and l-'aliit-r fialdau. here only fllarkeiizie river delta 154) n1ilg5 dlslll-ll'll-led dliselllef Wh0 U38 .)'Pali. 1121- to ciiierge came-in .lfFfiIIl thv lrcllr sea are l 'r ' been drinklns heavily for weeks. candle to tllzilli l x how to help move liie tots: "WE, VISITED CHURCH OFTEN 1' hhuriie ye forth and receive thg.sinkitig as its perms-frost base

'Though not a member of the St. Wilhtiut irarning halt . duyp Nilgli-dangti. (QC newfmyvyn Wm be Dumitru Romanian Orthodox con- rifle slinis ('l'a('kP(l out fiiiilllhllli Tlicv are Tfl01lllT;S glf))mg:29 G- gregation. Tudorache visited the wiiidou Hl'l'lISS the sircci ' ' 55' i dr-

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31'. GEORGE! SCHOOL

The report of St. George's School for the month of April is as fol- lows:

Grade V11: x 1. Anita Somers 1. Benny MscPhee

Grade V1: 1. Willie Morrison

Grade V: 1. Bal MacPhee

Grads IV: ' 1. Agnes Somers 1. Michael Farrell 3. Michael MacDonald

Grade 111: 1. Patrick MacDonald 2. George Johnston

Grade 11a: 1. Kenny MacPhse Grade 11b:

Georgina MacDonald Grade 11c: 1. Elaine MacPhee Grade 1:

Bonny Jean Mat-Phee 1. Gertrude MacDonald

Highest average in Junior Grad- es. Bonny Jean MacPhee and El- aine MacPhce (equal) 84 per cent; Highest average in Senior Grades. Anita Somers 85 per cent.

Teacher: Mrs. Anne Walker.

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