Early Childhood Screening for Giftedness

Gifted programming generally isn’t available for the youngest gifted children. But that doesn’t mean that the classroom teacher or parents can’t provide appropriate instruction and social interactions for students who are ahead of classmates in preschool, kindergarten, or the earliest grade levels of school.

Generally speaking, both screening and individualizing for advanced young children can be managed fairly easily and informally. And, ideally, all students in the classroom benefit from an approach that identifies and addresses different learning and social needs. There are many good reasons why it helps students enjoy and do better in school when readiness screening is done routinely.

Students who are “gainfully employed” in active learning:

* are less likely to develop habits of inattention

* are less likely to grow restless and exhibit distracting or inappropriate behaviors

* are more likely to enjoy school

* are more likely to feel they are learning in school

* are more likely to actually be learning in school!