Ellen Winner's Gifted Children

One of these examples was talking about when Duckworth was a teacher before becoming a psychologist. Teaching algebra, she could see how some of her students had high intelligence, but the students that ultimately rose above were those that put in hard work and effort. One student named David did not essentially participate a lot in class, but he aced tests and after class would ask for harder assignments. She saw this happened in the school that she taught in in New York as well. “Apparently, aptitude did not guarantee achievement. Talent for math was different from excelling in math class” (Duckworth 17). In fact, after becoming a psychologist, she came to the conclusion that effort counts twice. While while a talent and putting in effort develops a skill, having a skill and putting in even more effort results in achievement. The perseverance in learning and practicing no matter how adept a person is at a skill sets them up for

Oprah Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi. He parents were UN married and separated after conception. Oprah had a difficult childhood, battling through poverty and sexual abuse at an early age.

Indeed, from this article we recognize that the children will gain success when everybody encourages their effort and shouldn’t emphasize inborn talent. Effort counts more than innate ability.

What is actually being valued to our students’? Dweck points out, “In our society, we seem to worship talent- and we often portray it as a gift”. (Pg.15) This is an absolute prime example why students’ tend to get defensive of each other's intelligence. For instance, students’ presume that the gifted get to attend class, sit there and become successful. In this case, that statement is incorrect, you have to work for the success you crave, creates problems within the students’. Not only teachers, but parents need to realize that praising children is the inaccurate approach to do, and it will later benefit them in doing

Julie Lythcott-Haims explains to us all what a perfect child is; straight A student, fabulous test scores, gets homework done without parents asking them to do it… She has the right idea, the right mindset of a parent, every parent wants their child to succeed in life. The way that parents are parenting their children is messing them up. They don’t have a chance to become themselves, they are too focused on whether they did good on that test that they were stressing about for a week, they are too worried about getting the best grade to be able to get accepted into the biggest name colleges around. The parents become too consumed with hovering over their children making sure that they are doing flawlessly in school, the parents are directing their every single move they make. The children then began to think that their parents love comes from the good grades. Then they start making this checklist; Good grades, what they want to be when they grow up, get accepted into good colleges, great SAT scores, the right GPA, the jock of the sports team.

After reading The Sports Gene and Outliers, it is determined that people become “talented” with practice and there is no such thing as innate “talent”. In Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell, in chapter 2 it is said, “...10,000 hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert-in anything.” This supports the idea that people become “talented” with practice. The quote supports the claim because if it is being said that it takes 10,000 hours to master anything, it can be assumed that people do not have innate “talent”, but rather have a level of mastery over many hours of practice. It could be said on the opposite side of the argument that if it takes 10,000 hours to master anything, “ Why is there

programs, the gifted child learns how to overcome adversity, a life-skill that benefits the gifted

Some people believe that intelligence is inherited through genes and that they never change. Giftedness is not one of the inherited talents that are possible to inherit. Giftedness has to be developed and practiced as the child grows out of their early years. They also believe that gifted students read all the time, wear glasses, and are most of the time called “nerds”. This is called stereotyping. Gifted comes in different varieties varying from great athletes, talkative or shy persons, or just normal individuals with gifts. Not one specific type of person is gifted. You might think of the word gifted as bad such as mentally gifted, physically gifted or just gifted in general in a bad

Ask questions and wonder: Is it possible for someone to be conceived skilled in which they do not have to make the same decent attempt as others yet be the best at what they do?

People may think that this does injustice to the naturally gifted, but if someone is naturally gifted, they would still fulfill those hours because of their passion for whatever it is they are gifted in. You would have the urge to keep doing what you are good at until you are even better, meaning whether

According to, some recent studies, practice is the body through which genius is conveyed. Malcolm Gladwell brought the idea that 10,000 hours of practice was the exact amount of practice needed to acheive excellence, no matter the natural abilty of the person. Through dedication and practice, he stated in his work “The Outliers,” that any person could develop skills that are on par with a professional.

Gladwell presents a strong argument for “concerted cultivation” in comparison to natural growth in his book Outliers. "The Trouble With Geniuses,” chapter two of Outliers He introduces us to new groups of “Outliers” which fall into the category of genius. In this essay I will define purpose, voice, audience and context used in the chapters describing the troubles related to geniuses.

In the feature article “Brainology”, the author, Carol Dweck explains that there are consequences of praising children for their work, they is also different types of mindsets that enable a person’s development. She focuses on two types of mindsets. The first mindset is fixed where a person believes that if she or he is smart, they don’t need to put effort to be successful. The author explains on page 3 of the article that sometimes society encourages this mindset by using words such as smart , intelligent which sometimes creates confidence , however, when the assignment gets difficult then a fixed mindset person loses confidence so they stop working hard to complete the task. The second mindset is when a person believes that working hard to

You might think twice before sending a tennis coach to baseball’s spring training season; although there would be overlap in general kinesthetic and sports psychology knowledge, the nuances of the two sports are very different and require disparate sets of coaching skills. Just as a baseball team needs a coach who understands baseball, gifted students need guidance from well-trained, challenging teachers who understand their educational needs. Teacher training requirements for working with gifted students are determined at the state and local levels. Although gifted and talented students are in every school and classroom, few districts require that all classroom teachers receive training to address the educational needs of advanced learners.

How do we as people discern how individuals have obtained their prowess and talent? Some would say it is a product of hard labor and dedication. Some would say it is in inherent in certain lucky beings. However, regardless of how you swing the two sides of this debate it is undeniable the power of the former. Think of many great heroes, artists, writers, athletes, and overall successful individuals in general. What do they all have in common? They have all put in the time and hardship to reach the pinnacle of their abilities. Even in the most dire of circumstances not pertaining to that of a skill, trade, or art, treachery has made a work of bringing out the most persistent, enduring, and determined of us as a species. All of this being eloquently