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Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences 5 (2010) 1112–1114

WCPCG-2010

Gifted Students

Mohammad Olimat

Received January 9, 2010; revised February 16, 2010; accepted March 11, 2010

1. Introduction

In these days, nations try to provide some of development standards to produce scientists in different fields. So
that our countries are speading to discover early gifted children and present for them unsuitable look after to help
them to be creative in the future.
The definition of gifted students is the person who has high performance in one field or more one such as
general cognitive abilities, leadership abilities, discovery thinking, achievement abilities, psycho movement abilities
and social skills. (10)
Davis was mentioned some characters where appears in gifted students, such as originality, activity, like to know
independently, open thinking take risks, arts, funny, isolated in some times, consequence for his creative job, and
like to do complex things. (1)
2. Literature review:

A myths were created in early studies indicated that the under emphasis by educations can be traced to the myth.
That gifted students were well adjusted and didn’t need counseling services. (11)
But in the recent researches such as terman studies which indicated that gifted students were better adjusted
psychologically, socially, and were even healthier than the average person in adulthood. (8)
Counseling gifted students should aim to help these students to develop their positive self concepts, comprehend
their own giftedness in relation to their school and society, interact more effectively with peers, siblings, parents and
other adults and integrate their cognitive, emotional and social development. (2)
The development of gifted education needs to be met with a parallel development in the design and
implementation of counseling activities to assist students in their self discovery and to understanding themselves,
their abilities, motives intests, values, and issues of being gifted. (12)
Gifted students may unrealistically impose perfectionist ice goal, upon themselves in all areas and work
desperately to protect their identity of giftedness, falling in achieve goals lead to great stress and peelings like
railares and working too hard. (2)
Gifted students in complex and requires counselors to work with them, at self steem enhancement through
success experiences and realistic goal setting and understanding the relationship between efforts and outcomes. (9)

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3. Contribution to knowledge:

Individual counseling will help gifted students better understand their strengths and weakness, so that they need
more fully develop their potential. (9)
Counselors can play an important role in making home- school partnership a reality. (14)
Counseling with families anticipate and adjust to changes, to enter unique social and emotional needs that at
talent.
Within the development in increasing number of programs and services for gifted and talented students. (9)
Identifying the issues of counseling gifted children in the areas at assessment, counselors role and the counseling
process will assist counselors in providing an exceptional approach to these exceptional children. (15)
The Previous study (3) aimed to discover difficulties which faced gifted students in Jordan, mention that,
situations of job and personality factors influence in his percentage to deal with gifted students.
Another study related to (5) aimed to search in Britain teachers attitudes about concept at creative, results said
that 90% from teachers belives to develop creative through these points: construct trust between teacher and students
and give the students a chance to chose educational feature.
And also in another study which related to (4) aimed to reach a knowledge about difficulties creativity on
English teachers in secondary stage. It found the weakness of the huge one.
4. Theories of creative:

1- Genius theory: explain the product creative because the individual person only carry ideas but this
act from creature.
2- Analysis psychological theory said: that the base monitor for gifted works in internal conflict inside
the person. (6)
3- Cognitive theory: said that abilities mind the light of processing thinking. (7)
4- Osborn theory said: processing mind is the base of getup gifted and trate problems and of the end
make evaluation for ideas, (13). for the review of previous theory each one, try to explain concept gifted through
back ground of theory.
Conclusion:

From the previous literature and the real situation in dealing with gifted students, some points appear:
- Teachers emphasize on teaching not thinking.
- We find a gap between the school and the university.
- Strategies which used in evolution outcomes of education, don’t considers design process.
- Some factors such as safety, experience internal evolution and some environment factors like, level of
economic, cultural, and types of teaching.
- Develop program for gifted.
- To prepare gifted teachers in different fields.
- Discover gifted students from early child hood.
- To prepare suitable educational places for gifted child.
- Spread the creative cultures between families through programs and media.
- Motivate families to create gifted children.
- Give chance for gifted to be responsible in different fields of gifted.

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