Minnesota Council for the Gifted & Talented

 Deeper, faster, complex, more connections, strong abstraction and insights

Attention depends on their interest in topic, deeply absorbed in passions

Emotions expressed strongly and internalized deeply, strong value and depth of friendship, feelings of justice and fairness

Creative products using integrative and divergent thinking

Mature in understanding and sometimes not understood by peers, enjoys word play and may have a quirky sense of humor

Sensory seeking or avoidance with sensitivity to sensory input and attention

Big questions at an early age, questioning for understanding, sometimes needs understanding before cooperating

Learns with whole body involved, resists sleep because doesn’t want to miss something, feels a pressure to move

Vivid imagining of ideas, elaborate play, creates new, not wanting to copy others