Headway School for Giftedness, School Year 2014-2015
- from the recently concluded "A Special Gift this Christmas" at the Meralco Theater
Giftedness is more than just
a high intelligence quotient (IQ).
Renowned psychologists, educators and scientists conducted numerous research studies to prove and provide a wider perspective of giftedness.
Gifted individuals, apart from a high cognitive ability, possess non-cognitive qualities such as creativity, compassion, sensitivity, heightened sensibilities, overexcitability and highly developed emotional, sensory and physical aspects (Dabrowski). Three major components of the gifted include high ability, high creativity and high task commitment (Renzulli).
They are also highly evolved persons who manifest deep awareness and empathy, as forms of emotional giftedness. Those who have an affinity for inwardness, capacity for forgiveness, unconditional love and unshakable faith are considered spiritually gifted (Roeper and Piechowski).
Giftedness can also be expressed in the concept of multiple intelligences comprising bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, intrapersonal, visual-spatial, musical and naturalist facets (Gardner).
These multitudinal expressions of giftedness are greatly significant to parents and teachers if this special group of children is to grow and develop to their full potential and become productive global citizens.
a high intelligence quotient (IQ).
Renowned psychologists, educators and scientists conducted numerous research studies to prove and provide a wider perspective of giftedness.
Gifted individuals, apart from a high cognitive ability, possess non-cognitive qualities such as creativity, compassion, sensitivity, heightened sensibilities, overexcitability and highly developed emotional, sensory and physical aspects (Dabrowski). Three major components of the gifted include high ability, high creativity and high task commitment (Renzulli).
They are also highly evolved persons who manifest deep awareness and empathy, as forms of emotional giftedness. Those who have an affinity for inwardness, capacity for forgiveness, unconditional love and unshakable faith are considered spiritually gifted (Roeper and Piechowski).
Giftedness can also be expressed in the concept of multiple intelligences comprising bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, intrapersonal, visual-spatial, musical and naturalist facets (Gardner).
These multitudinal expressions of giftedness are greatly significant to parents and teachers if this special group of children is to grow and develop to their full potential and become productive global citizens.
