Does the child
- Ask a lot of questions?
- Show a lot of interest in progress?
- Have in-depth information on many things?
- Often want to know why or how something is so?
- Become unusually upset at injustices?
- Seem interested in and concerned about social or political problems?
- Often have a better reason for not doing what you want done than you have asking them to do it?
- Refuse to drill on spelling, mathematics, facts, flash cards, or handwriting?
- Criticize others for dumb ideas?
- Become impatient if work is not "perfect"?
- Seem to be a loner?
- Seem bored and often have nothing to do?
- Complete only part of an assignment or project and then take off in a new direction?
- Stick to a subject long after the class has gone on to other things?
- Seem restless and leave his or her seat often?
- Daydream?
- Seem to understand easily?
- Like solving puzzles and problems?
- Have his or her own idea about how something should be done? And stay with it?
- Talk a lot?
- Love metaphors and abstract ideas?
- Love debating issues?
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Excerpt from Growing Up Gifted: Developing the Potential of Children at Home and at School, by B. Clark, 2008 edition, p. 201.
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