Exploration of Challenges Among Gifted and Talented Children

Abstract

Most gifted students love to study, work hard to complete cognitive tasks, and wanted to have more difficult subjects for enhancing their intellectual capability. However, they are unable to do so in their regular classes even in their special gifted group. Some of the challenges faced by gifted and talented students are teachers’ stigma, negative peer attitudes, difficulty understanding others, problems related to perfectionism, as well as impatience and intolerance. Thus, there is a dire need to cater the social and emotional issues of these students. Counselors may be unaware and unable to respond to these concerns because they are not well-trained to counsel this unique population. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the characteristics of gifted and talented students, challenges that they face and the need for counseling approaches to address all these issues to unleash the learning and development of gifted students.

Exploring Academic Performance Among Gifted and Talented Students: A Comprehensive Review

“…2 Aziz et al (2021) This study aims to investigate the characteristics of gifted and talented students, as well as the challenges they face and the counseling approach needed to address all related issues in order to facilitate their learning and development.…”

“…Furthermore, research on gifted and talented students is increasingly gaining attention in the world of education research to strengthen a more holistic education system. Typically, gifted and talented students are perceived as excelling in all their endeavors, owing to their exceptional academic performance and multifaceted potential in areas such as academics, creativity, leadership, visual arts, performance, and more, especially when compared to their peers of the same age (Aziz et al, 2021). According to Hately and Townend (2020), the expectation that gifted students will always achieve high performance is one of the most sensational myths.…”

Identification of gifted students in different global contexts: literature review التعـرف على الطــلاب المـوهـوبيــن في سياقــات عالميــة مختلفــة: مــــراجعــــة الأدبيــــات

“…Malaysia's search for gifted children was therefore seen as part of its move away from relying on its natural resources as it develops human resources (Aziz et al, 2021, Fields, 1997. More recently, however, the Malaysian Ministry of Education has emphasised the development of every child's potential (Yassin et al, 2012, Shakir & Ali, 2021.…”

“Developing Capabilities”. Inclusive Extracurricular Enrichment Programs to Improve the Well-Being of Gifted Adolescents

“…Accordingly, two exceptional learners may experience a range of emotional and social problems (Beckmann and Minnaert, 2018): frustration with school, high levels of negative emotions, adverse interpersonal relationships, etc. Some issues that also warrant consideration due to their impact on levels of well-being and increase gifted students' vulnerability include the presence of unhealthy perfectionism (Chan, 2012), asynchronous development (Rinn and Majority, 2018), overexcitability (Guthrie, 2019), negative stereotypes associated with their condition (Aziz et al, 2021), bullying (Bergold et al, 2019), excessive pressure from the environment (Zeidner, 2017), etc. They may also need different support than their peers (Woo et al, 2017).…”