Prodigy Children

What is a prodigy student?

• A distinct form of giftedness 
• Tends to have more focused form of giftedness
• Excels in one or two areas  
• Child performs at highly trained level

Indentifying Prodigy children

• Reading at early age 
• High IQ 
• Extreme memorization 
• Early motor skills 
• ambidextrous 

WHat areas?

• Mathematical genius 
• Science (medical) 
• Language (spelling) 
• Music (instruments) 
• Athletics 

Famous Prodigies

• Jean Piaget (child development) 
• Pascal (mathematician and philosopher)  
• John con Neumann (atomic bomb) 
• Akrit Jaswal (7-year-old surgeron) 

SChool/Prodigy Children

• Most students aren't in normal classrooms 
• Parents are tutoring them  
• Attending higher level courses/higher level work
• Schooling is individualized (one-on-one RTI)  
• Prodigy Public School 

Challenges

• Fitting in with children their own age
• Social skills 
• Different stimuli 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WexWgPqoNF0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=050nVhMska8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSH0MxTHXNI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSYCwxt78jY

Activity

• Building Box! 
• Get ready to be creative 
• stimulating, challenging, critical thinking   
• Students build out of weird materials 

What the activity prevents

• Doesn't give student more of the same work
• Doesn't test students on speed 
• Doesn't give them boring meaningless tasks 
• Doesn't isolate them from classroom 

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