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What is Overexcitabilities

Chapter 21
Identifying, Describing, and Developing Teachers Who Are Gifted and Talented
Heightened sensitivities to stimuli in the environment.
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Toward a Definition of a Gifted and Talented Teacher: Case Analysis
Meta Lee Van Sickle (College of Charleston, USA), Julie D. Swanson (College of Charleston, USA), and Julianna Ridenhour (College of Charleston, USA)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5879-8.ch021
Abstract
What shapes an individual into a teacher who is gifted and talented? How does one identify gifted or talented educators in education classes or in the schools? In an exploration of these questions, the authors review related gifted education literature to ground the synthesis of auto-ethnographies and case studies in what is known. Using grounded theory, the researchers analyze the stories of GATE teachers in Chapters 4 – 15 and identify common themes. The researchers use these findings to create a definition of the individual who is a gifted and talented teacher.
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Chapter 11
Blessed Rage for Order: The Evolution of a GATE Educator
Defined and explored by Kazimierz Dabrowski, an overexcitability is an individual’s stronger than average response to a thing or event occurring in one or more of the senses. For example, a child with an imaginational overexcitability might be so engrossed with his/her imaginary friend that s/he refuses to interact with individuals who fail to recognize that imaginary being. Similarly, a child with an intellectual overexcitability may wish to study a topic (e.g., dinosaurs or tessellations) to the exclusion of all other content.
Published in Chapter: Blessed Rage for Order: The Evolution of a GATE Educator; From: Identifying, Describing, and Developing Teachers Who Are Gifted and Talented
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Chapter 13
Smash-Up: Design Thinking, Personalized Learning, and Gifted Learners
Refers to Dabrowski’s five neurologically excited states in individuals of high potential that are observed and described as heightened behaviors.
Published in Chapter: Smash-Up: Design Thinking, Personalized Learning, and Gifted Learners; From: Handbook of Research on Innovative Pedagogies and Best Practices in Teacher Education
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