Self-Awareness Defined (video)
The video focuses on what question?
Who are you?
Name the overexcitability with enhanced emotional responses
Emotional
Math, Reading, Writing, Spanish Reading (accept bilingualism)
When gifted students feel like no one else is like them or understands them, it can lead to feeling _______.
Lonely/Alone
Self-awareness in GATE starts with understanding what we are _________, why and the impact.
feeling
The ability to tune into own feelings thoughts & actions. How you act and what you say impacts self and others.
Self-awareness
Name the overexcitability often shown through hyperactive behavior
Psychomotor
Gifted students often find that people want their knowledge and to follow their ideas. When gifted students are willing to step up in these ways, we call it _______.
Leadership
When gifted students succeed, other people's reactions may be ______ compared to when other students succeed.
not surprised, less happy or celebratory, less impressed
Self-awareness also relates to being aware of how others ________
see us
Name 2 of the 5 reasons self-awareness is important
Self-reflect
Recognize strengths/weaknesses
Manage our emotions
Consider others
Take Criticism
The student with this overexcitability should have time to explore interests and passions and questions. They may need help respecting peer who learn more slowly and help with blurting out.
Intellectual
Often gifted students can see more than one way to solve a problem or see an issue. We call this _____.
Creative thinking or Different perspectives
Students who are gifted express that non-gifted peers often ______.
leave them out, bully, exclude, rarely consider them, only talk to them when in need of answers
Strengths
What does Consider Others mean in this video?
It means if we can recognize our emotions and manage them, we can help others with the same.
The student with this overexcitability may need help self-calming and limiting stimuli that overwhelm
Sensual (or Sensory)
When gifted students feel strong in an academic subject it can lead to a strong sense of ______
Self-confidence
Name something that can be both a pro and con of being gifted, a mixed blessing.
You can do better alone, hyperfixation, strong emotions, different perspectives, high awareness
Opposite of strengths, we also consider our own ________ as part of self-awareness
limits/weaknesses
What does understanding your strengths and weaknesses help you feel?
Self-confidence
The student with this overexcitability may need instruction on the difference between lying and storytelling
Imaginational
The most common trait of giftedness is a fast rate of _______ in a strength area.
Learning or understanding (in strength area)
Our poster listed this trait of constantly trying to be/do the best as a Pro but it is often seen as a Con for Gifted Students
Perfectionism
The final step of GATE self-awareness is gaining clarity on _______________
values/purpose