by Dr. Manoj Chandra Handa | 6 Jun, 2015 | Creativity, Gifted Students, Higher-order Thinking, Questioning, Teacher Effectiveness
Always the beautiful answerwho asks a more beautiful question. – E. E. CummingsWhile higher-order thinking processes are effective for all learners, research in the education of gifted students shows that the power of inquiry is crucial for promoting their...
by Dr. Manoj Chandra Handa | 8 Feb, 2015 | Creativity, Gifted Students
One must still have creative chaos in oneselfto be able to give birth to a dancing star.- Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844-1900) Synectics has been described by its creator, William J. J. Gordon, as “the joining together of different and apparently...
by Dr. Manoj Chandra Handa | 2 Jan, 2015 | Gifted Students, Teacher Effectiveness
A great teacher affects eternity:she/he can never tell where her/his influence stops.~ Adapted from Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907 Gifted students are the lighthouses for their teachers in the classroom. As beacons of light, they shine brightly in...
by Dr. Manoj Chandra Handa | 7 Oct, 2014 | Gifted Students
Positive parent-child relationships form an important background for academic motivation. Letting the children know that their parents think school is important and providing recognition for their effort and successes can motivate learning. Brown (2009), Martin...
by Dr. Manoj Chandra Handa | 22 Sep, 2014 | Gifted Students
“The pursuit of excellence is not a skill, it is an attitude.” – Manoj Chandra Handa Perfectionism has often been misunderstood as a good quality to possess. It is not. What is good is the pursuit of excellence which is something quite different. Delisle and...
by Dr. Manoj Chandra Handa | 18 Aug, 2014 | Gifted Students
“There is not enough darkness in the world to extinguish the light of one small candle.” – Spanish proverbMotivation is now widely seen as a key to learning. The affective domain of Bloom’s taxonomy is considered to be...
by Dr. Manoj Chandra Handa | 12 Aug, 2014 | Gifted Students
“If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.” – Confucius (551-479 BC) Self-regulated study is the most frequently recommended instructional strategy in programs for gifted students as a means for...
by Dr. Manoj Chandra Handa | 4 Aug, 2014 | Creativity, Gifted Students
Creativity is a basic human need to make something new. Creativity is the ability to generate ideas, products, or solutions that are considered novel and useful for a given problem, situation or context (Amabile, 1996; Beghetto, 2008; Plucker et al, 2004; Runco,...
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