i am sending my son to gifted child program,he is in K now,any sugggestions on preparing??

Question

i have no idea as how to prepare him for the test.any ideas on this please.I tried searching for any syllabus or something so that i can teach him those,but nothing helped so i thought someone out there might add some light

Answer 1

What's his gift?

Answer 2

Honestly, do not listen to the people who decide to bash on "gifted children." The fact is it is a good program. I graduated last year and have found that the gifted program is crucial throught elementary and middle school. Yes, it is true that everyone ends up in the same place, but there is a diffrence, gifted children are taught through creativity and challenge.

I suggest, you incorporate many projects while trying to prepare your son for the test. I never took a test though. My SAT scores where high. But also do not push your son to gifted. Everyone is equal. He will make it on his own. Just remember that gifted means, that you are gifted in one area. I entered the program b/c of math. Andthe gifted program's goal is to balance the student. Now i suck at math and i love writing. Gifted challenges, so challenge your son. Have thought provoking questions. I recall being told that tests have many patterns. THey test to see if the student can figure things out.

Answer 3

My sister-in-law went into a gifted program and she totally regrets. She became a social misfit. She spent most of her young life working in school and achieving so much, that she missed out on life and socializing. It is very difficult for her to make and keep friends, and the friends that she does make are not very appropriate fo her. Sometimes being the smart one isn't always the best. If it was my child (I do have 2) I would keep them in a regular school and find extra curricular activities for them to stimulate them and keep them from not "being bored" with everyday activities.
If he does go on to the gifted program, tell him that no matter what he does or how well he does or doesn't do, that it is okay, and that you love him. As far as the test, let it come naturally. If he knows it, then that is the best he could do, he is in kindergarten. Worry about this later. He'll have enough pressure to make friends and even later on in life there is always college.

Answer 4

You gifted child people are so pathetic.
My children never made it into the gifted program.
Guess what; they had a great time in school and are straight A's in the AP and honors classes.
Their gifted friends? B's and C's and F's in the remedial courses!
The gifted programs are for the exeptional student; you know, the Westinghouse Award winners, not the regular schmoe who gets a 95 on the gifted placement exam, but that's who ends up in the program.
Sour grapes? No. I was dead set against the program before my firstborne ever started school.

Answer 5

This is going to sound weird, but it worked for me. My folks found me "reading" the daily paper when I was a little over three. They though it was "cute". Then they about dirtied their pants when I started asking questions about what I was reading! (I got that info from the folks themselves later on. I was not good at facial expressions. I had no idea they were startled.)

At first they were worried I would become an idiot savant. (This was the early 60's after all. No one had really done much on educating young children.) They put me in "kindergarten", as it was called back then, and I was bored to tears. At least at home I could read my 'Ol man's books! (He was an architect.)

I turned out to be very bad with math, but I could read, and retain, large amounts of info at a young age. The folks just left any and all kinds of reading material around for me to go through at my own pace. I'm still good at read it once, remember it forever. Even my math is OK now. (Took a few years.)

Whatever his special talent is, get him as much of the material as you can. Don't worry about the level. He will find his depth, and go from there. There really, even now, is not much in the way of instruction for the gifted unless you have a great deal of money to burn.

Just one more thing. If he's a reader, have the eyes checked often. My eyes went bad early. I wore glasses from 5th grade on, and now wear bifocals that weigh a ton. (Or so it seems, after a day of having them hanging on my beak!)

Whatever you do, don't push! If he thinks it's work, then he just lost interest! The other thing is he may peak early. Don't get mad. Maybe something else will interest him more than what he is good at now. You have to remember that he does not have the access to information that we have as adults.

Answer 6

There is no syllabus for that test because they dont want you to prepare him for it. They want to test him with no coaching or special teachings. This gives them a base for him and gets him placed in the correct program. I'm sure since he has been set up for test that you dont have to worry about it Im sure he will be fine. Make sure he gets plenty of rest and a good breakfast and is there on time, that's really all you have to do. Good luck with your young bright child, the gifted program is very different from regular school and he's gonna love it.

Answer 7

1. Teach your child to read, yourself. Then teach him to love reading.
2. Your child will be tested on his ability to remember things -- say, a string of letters from the alphabet. He'll need to remember them forward (as the tester said them), and then recite them backward.
3. Your child will be handed some beads and a string, and told to make a pattern. Putting all red beads on the string won't get a lot of points, neither will red-yellow-red-yellow. See if you can get him to make a repeating pattern with a period of four or five.
4. Your child should know how to count, and when one number is greater than or less than another.

Answer 8

You're not supposed to prepare them for IQ tests.

And really, it's better not to take IQ tests at all. It "goes on your record."

Do you really want your boy to get recruited for defense jobs while in high school? He'll be smart and rich when he grows up if he works for it, no matter what he does.

Take it from a Mesa proctor: "Never tell anybody you're in Mensa."

Answer 9

smart children lead such troubled lives. the world is so easy for them, we never learn to deal with adversity. keep pushing him harder and harder and never let up. if you do he will stop striving for better things because the world only requires and wants mediocrity.

Answer 10

teach him some 1st-2nd grade things.