Nowadays a lot of classes are held for gifted children (gifted child) is called regular or accelerated classes. But actually, it is rich in talented children what siy? Are gifted children that had been printed like that of a nature to? Or it could be contrived his own? Then what about us who feel no or less talented? According to Joseph Renzulli (1978), the gifted child that includes three things, IQ, creativity and task commitment.
IQ
We already know what it is IQ. Standard set for gifted children by the Department of Education in 2003 was 140. If test results show an IQ above 140 to reach the child, the child is automatically called gifted child.
But then came a certain share of visits for gifted children of IQ. Mild giftedness (IQ 115-129), giftedness moderate (IQ 130-144), high giftedness (IQ 145 and above).
Schools set their own rules in the capture of gifted children. There is a class that only accepts children with IQ of 140 and above. But there are also receiving gifted children with mild considering the results of tests of creativity, task commitment tests and interviews.
Creativity
Creativity can be defined as the ability to create new things or the ability to create new combinations of existing ones. Creativity can be judged from the four terms, product, person, process and the initiator / inhibitor. A product is said to be creative if the product is new, different from the existing one, is better than others and certainly useful. While a creative person is a person who has a flexible mindset, fluent and original, and sensitive to the problems in the neighborhood. Thus, the stiff, cool n just do not care about the environment, can be spelled out clearly ga creative. The nature of the creative person the other is open to new things, have a great sense of curious, tenacious, independent, willing to take risks, dare to be different, confident and humorous. Loh kok humorous come too? Yes. Humorous person who had a lot of creative thinking, different from the others and saving a lot of vocabulary. Amazingly, he can come up with three things in just seconds after he saw or heard something.
To be a creative process involves the preparation or planning, verification, or verification, and implementation or application. There are also other things that serve as the originator of creativity as well as a barrier. Among other talents, the environment, and culture respectively. According to Silvano Arieti, 1976, cultural support, nurture and enable the development of creativity is called creativogenic. Believe it or not, without discriminating against a particular culture, there are tables of a culture that inhibits creativity, such as assessing kalo tuh guns Pantes college girls in engineering majors because that guy. Though, who knows if given the chance, she's going to be a tech cars that go F1! Ato prohibit guys do certain things that are considered should only be done by the rich girls play dolls because it is a toy for girls girls education as well let him get used to caring for babies. In fact, already clearly if the birth of a baby is the result of cooperation between men and women. That is, the guy was going to have a baby later, so, what's wrong if they play dolls? That's precisely their empathy training.
Task Commitment
Task commitment is the extent of our responsibility and finish the task. Not only schools but also the task of tasks at home and around us. Task commitment can be measured through certain tests which should only be done by a psychologist. This task includes the responsibility of commitment, motivation, tenacity, confidence, having clear goals before doing anything and independence.
Children who have a high commitment task does not require a push from outside to finish the job. He has also done independently and resilient and has a clear purpose. And that guns are less important, do not like to procrastinate.
So what about you? Are you confident enough to call yourself a gifted? Well, maybe an IQ do you have guns nyampe 140. and because of the more mature person's IQ tends to a constant, then increased IQ at age now it seems difficult and almost guns as possible. Let us tetep IQ that much, there are two other factors that could support our talent, creativity and task commitment are we. These two things can be trained really. Start from the trivial such as not throwing the tasks assigned to someone else mama like a maid or a sister. If parents tell us and we can do it, do it yourself! We can also learn to set goals that we have to achieve at the end of the semester, plan what should we do to achieve that objective and abide by the plans we have made. Another example, if during the time we often put off completing a task, start now do not be postponed again. It shows we have a high task commitment. If during the time we like to work foto temen, from now on do independently according to our abilities.
Being a gifted child is not simply a matter of going to class acceleration, passing more quickly than other children or practically gifted. More than that, think of you a bright future if you can be creative and responsible children. Think also about the future of our nation's childhood when children are socialized to be creative and responsible. Things that keliatannya trivial can actually transform us as a whole.
