may be experiencing challenges in other areas of

learning.

Nature of ability and implications for learning—

students may:

• reason well (good thinker)

• learn rapidly

• have extensive vocabulary

• have an excellent memory

• have a long attention span (if interested)

• be sensitive (feelings hurt easily)

• show compassion

• be perfectionists

• be intense

• be morally sensitive

• have strong curiosity

• ask lots of questions

• draw inferences

• invent things

• love challenges and complexity

• have a high degree of perseverance in their

interests

• have a high degree of energy

• prefer older companions or adults
have a wide range of interests

• have a great sense of humour

• be early or avid readers (if too young to read,

love being read to)

• be concerned with justice and fairness, often

with a well-developed sense of justice

• be keen observers

• have a vivid imagination

• be highly creative

• tend to question authority

• enjoy number work/games/puzzles

• be good at puzzles.

in the classroom