This lesson focuses on the social and emotional needs of gifted children.
For a good understanding of the social and emotional needs, it is important to examine the terms social and emotional:
- Social development includes the development of a person in relation to others, for example friendship expectations, beliefs about fidelity and loyalty.
- Emotional development is about learning to understand one’s own feelings, and the development of self-image.
In this MOOC there are three lessons and three tests:
Lesson 1 Social development
The social development of gifted students can be influenced by lack of challenges, underachievement, or the perceived lack of understanding in their environment. The possible consequences of this are described in this lesson. The academic self-concept can also influence social development. Cross (2001): “Without confirmation of effort, a sense of competence might never be developed.”
Lesson 2 Social needs
Gifted children do have social skills!
A common misconception about social development of gifted students is they are often socially awkward, socially and emotionally behind their peers, or develop social and emotional problems.
Lesson 3 Emotional needs
When their needs are not met, highly sensitive gifted students often start to underachieve or show problematic behaviour.
The difference between gifted and regular children lies in their intensity. Because of their emotional intensity, gifted children have special educational needs (Freeman, 1983).
Where gifted students are not challenged enough in education, we often see divergent or problem behaviour, according to Montgomery (2009). The gifted students get a label of ‘problem student’, and they do not receive the education they need.
- Lectures 5
- Quizzes 0
- Duration 10 weeks
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 10
- Assessments Yes
