A gifted child cannot easily excel in school

Developing study programs to a degree that fulfills the basic requirements for developing the talents' preparations is a necessary condition for their care.

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IQ average of the average person is about 100 points, and any person is classified as gifted when their IQ exceeds 130 points.

In general, gifted children excel in various academic areas, such as language, abstract thinking, logic, and arithmetic, and they also excel in motor skills and artistic abilities.

Many believe that a gifted children can easily excel in school place and score better than others place, but this is not always the rule of score. The educational system in its current time, form does not stimulate the curiosity of gifted children in order to focus and learn easly, but often makes them feel bored all children, and this leads to poor academic school's performance and many behavioral problems.

Siham Ali Taha, a senior consultant for people with special needs, said that schools and educational systems at the present time have not developed themselves to the extent necessary to create the appropriate atmosphere to unleash the energies of the talented and direct them towards the right path and satisfy their psychological and educational needs. Therefore, we find many problems that prevent the care of gifted students in schools.

The educational systems did not develop themselves to the extent necessary to create the appropriate atmosphere to unleash the energies of the talented and direct them towards their path
She added that one of the most important problems that gifted students face in schools is the use of insufficient techniques such as teacher assessments and school tests to detect gifted students, because these tools are not sufficient to achieve this purpose and at other times may not be considered appropriate.

In addition to the inadequacy of the curricula and educational methods for the care of the gifted; Where many talented students fail to develop a large part of their preparations due to the obstacles and pressures that result from lack.

Their consistency with curricula, educational methods, means of implementation, and methods of evaluating them in schools. It does not suit their abilities, nor does it allow them opportunities for independent study, nor does it evoke their love for curiosity and their passion for research and experimentation. In addition to the teacher's lack of understanding of gifted students and their needs.
Taha stressed that developing academic programs to a degree that achieves the basic requirements for developing the talents' preparations is a necessary condition for their care, but it is not sufficient unless there is a qualified teacher to work with these groups of students.

Taha emphasized that the teacher is the mainstay and foundation of the educational process, and he is the one who creates the atmosphere that will either strengthen or shake the student's self-confidence, encourage or thwart his interests, develop or neglect his abilities, spur his creativity or dampen it, stimulate his thinking or stop him, help him to achieve. achievement or delay it.

Many gifted children are misdiagnosed as having ADHD because of their behavior in the classroom.
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Experts define a gifted child as a child who has the advanced ability to practice a skill or activity, which he usually acquires at an older age, may reach puberty. A nine-year-old playing a musical instrument as an eighteen-year-old.

Recent studies have proven that the percentage of creative children from birth until the age of five reaches 90 percent of them, and when these children reach the age of seven, that percentage drops to 10 percent, and once they reach the age of eight, it decreases to only 2 percent of them.

The educational thinker Ibrahim Al-Rasheed said, "This is clear evidence that the extent to which our education systems, social norms, and family habits have succeeded in obliterating the talents of our children, and aborting their dreams and hopes on the rocks of the reality of a society that does not know how to deal with its next elite."

Also, the parents’ lack of understanding of the nature of the gifted child kills his ambition and does not help him to excel in school. The intelligent child complains about restrictions, laws and strict orders and considers them an obstacle to his release.

For this, a degree of flexibility and freedom must be provided in the child’s movements and actions in order to be able to vent his emotions and thoughts.
A gifted child has high abilities, and may sabotage not out of love for sabotage, but because his nature loves curiosity and experimentation.

Therefore, harmful stimuli must be removed from him, with an alternative to be used to practice his activities and conduct his experiments in a place designated for his toys and discoveries.