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Improving Your Gifted and Talented Child’s Thinking Skills
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| You know that you have a Gifted and Talented child. You are happy. But you are also worried. How will you make sure that you are encouraging his thinking skills, providing him enough challenge and encouraging him to use his abilities to maximum? |
| Asking Right Questions Can Help |
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Sometimes asking the right questions is enough to encourage the child to think better and think harder. You as a parent or as a teacher can ask different questions under different circumstances to ensure that your child can think through the problem effectively before answering it. This would encourage him to use different parts of his brain and polish different types of thinking abilities. |
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| Six Categories of Thinking Abilities |
| Experts divide these different scenarios into six categories, where parents can help the child by asking the right questions under right circumstance: |
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To improve recall or recognition abilities
Ask questions such as when, how many, describe, tell, identify, etc. |
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To improve translation and interpretation abilities
Ask questions such as describe, explain, estimate, predict, etc. |
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To improve ability to apply knowledge to unfamiliar situations
Ask questions such as demonstrate, apply, examine, classify, etc. |
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To improve analytical abilities
Ask questions such as compare, classify, analyze, arrange, sort, etc. |
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To improve synthesis abilities
Ask questions such as combine, substitute, create, design, etc. |
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To improve judging abilities
Ask questions such as compare, select, measure, decide, compare, conclude, etc. |
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The most important skill children can learn is the critical thinking skill and as parents of gifted and talented children, it becomes even more important to encourage the development of these skills. Supporting and nurturing these skills at a younger age is critical to their success in academic and professional life. Parents are the best people to encourage the development since children love the discussions they have with their parents and the attention they get from their parents. |
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About Author : Anu Bhave is the founder and President at  - an online tutoring and homework help firm that provides very high-quality personalized, convenient, yet highly affordable supplementary education services to K-12 and college students. |
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