Did You Know? Interesting FACTS about Students Who are GIFTED

According to researcher and educational expert, Ellen Winner, students who are gifted are:

• more likely to be introverted than other students?
• twice as likely than their peers to report feelings of anxiety, stress and/or depression?
• more likely than other teens to use drugs?
• more likely than other students to attempt suicide?
• usually perfectionists?  This means that students who are gifted are both motivated to work towards mastery while on the other hand being unforgiving of personal failure.
• often plagued with an added responsibility to 'live up to their potential'
• sometimes conflicted about being identified as gifteded
• sometimes take enormous risks becasue they aren't concerned about what other's think
• positively influenced when given appropriate choices

For more information, please see Joy and Loss:  The Emotional Lives of Gifted Children http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content4/joy.loss.eq.gifted.html