Exceptionally to Profoundly Gifted — Part 1 — An Introduction

Level Four — The Outliers

In the previous three series, we focused on parent and child dynamics for study subjects from the first three Levels of Gifted and referred to those subjects as the conventionally gifted because almost everyone has met and gone to school with some members of those three Levels. The needs of such children are certainly different than for most children, and meeting their needs is theoretically possible in most schools. The two series I begin here concern the same topics for Levels Four and Five participants, the outliers. After I’ve finished creating and publishing the entire series, I will edit them for the 1 of 8 or whatever it turns out to be.

Old friends. They “found” each other in 5th grade.

The outlier group’s members are all exceptionally to profoundly gifted and their intellectual brilliance is obvious to most people. Remember, this doesn’t mean “good grades” but how they be, how they just seem to be very clever and quick-witted. When a teacher experiences a Level Four or Five student, they usually say the child is like no student they’ve ever had before. And because of the relative rarity of these outliers, few parents or educators know what to do for them and what to expect will be good or enough. What will meeting the needs of such…