arguments about gifted children and sefl-regulation. Disagree of agree?

B Excellence does not emerge without appropriate help. To reach an exceptionally high standard in any area very able

children

need the means to learn, which includes material to work with and focused challenging tuition -and the encouragement to follow their dream. There appears to be a qualitative difference in the way the intellectually highly able think, compared with more average-ability or older pupils, for whom external regulation by the teacher often compensates for

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of internal regulation. To be at their most effective in their self-regulation, all

children

can be helped to identify their own ways of learning – metacognition – which will include strategies of planning, monitoring, evaluation, and choice of what to learn. Emotional awareness is

also

part of metacognition, so

children

should be helped to be aware of their feelings around the area to be learned, feelings of curiosity or confidence,

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. C High achievers have been found to use self-regulatory learning strategies more often and more effectively than lower achievers, and are better able to transfer these strategies to deal with unfamiliar tasks.

This

happens to

such

a high degree in some

children

that they appear to be demonstrating talent

in particular

areas. Overviewing research on the thinking process of highly able

children

, (Shore and Kanevsky, 1993) put the instructor’s problem succinctly: ‘If they [the gifted] merely think more quickly,

then

.we need only teach more quickly. If they merely make fewer errors,

then

we can shorten the

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. But of course,

this

is not entirely the case; adjustments have to be made in methods of learning and teaching, to take account of the many ways individuals think. D