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| What Should I Know About Bright Preschool Children? |
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| Author : National Council Gifted Education.
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| Created : 15 Mar 2002
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| Last Revision : 17 Mar 2002
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How do bright preschool children differ from other children their age?
As a group, bright preschool children differ from others their age in some of the ways they think and feel. In most cases, their physical development is similar to other children's. However, each child is an individual, with an individual pattern of development. Bright preschool children are likely to differ from others their age in many, but not all, of the following ways.
Ways of Thinking
|||bullet||| Curiosity: Are extremely curious about how things work; often ask "Why?" and "Why not?"
|||bullet||| Memory: Remember things that happened a long time ago, enjoy interesting facts
|||bullet||| Learning: Learn ideas quickly and can use them in new situations
|||bullet||| Attention: Can maintain attention for long periods of time on things that interest them
|||bullet||| Reasoning: Understand cause and effect; see connections between ideas and events
|||bullet||| Fluency: Have lots of ideas and solutions for problems
|||bullet||| Vocabulary: Use a greater variety of words and phrases than other children of the same age; may begin speaking and understanding language at an early age
|||bullet||| Sense of Humor: Quickly understand jokes and riddles; can create their own humor
Ways of Feeling
|||bullet||| Idealism: May have a strong sense of right and wrong and be disturbed if they believe something is wrong
|||bullet||| Sensitivity: Can be sensitive to the emotions of others; easily upset, can find the evening news distressing
|||bullet||| Intensity: Can have intensely happy, sad, or fearful reactions
|||bullet||| Seeking for Peers: May prefer to play with older children in a search for intellectual peers
|||bullet||| Frustrated by Development: May be frustrated when their physical development does not keep pace with their intellect; for example, when they can think of an elaborate picture but do not have enough control of the pencil to draw it.
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