Intellectual Ability

    • Quick to master new concepts
    • Thinks quickly
    • Recalls facts and concepts easily
    • May use advanced vocabulary
    • Has a large knowledge base
    • Sees patterns & relationships
    • Makes connections
    • Able to generalize, propose big ideas
    • Thinks logically
    • Reasons critically
    • Judges/challenges critically
    • Can ask probing questions
    • Prefers accurate and valid solutions
    • Formulates and supports ideas with evidence
  • Avid reader or writer

Reading: The "me" behind the mask: Intellectually gifted students and the search for identity

    • Be easily bored
    • Dominate discussion
    • Uses oral skills to manipulate way out of difficult tasks or negative behaviour
    • Difficulty in accepting what is seen as illogical
    • Be accused of over-intellectualizing or over-analyzing things or people
    • Resistant to repetition
    • May lack tact
    • May be critical of teachers
    • May come across as arrogant
    • May take the class on a tangent that the teacher does not want
  • May struggle with reading social cues.