GT Creative Learner
Characteristics
Leslie Owen Wilson, Ed. D 2018
thesecondprinciple.com/creativity
https://thesecondprinciple.com/creativity/children-creativity/characteristics-of-creative-children/
Most researchers studying this topic agree that perceptions of creativity revolve around the frequency and easy display of many of thinking and processing traits: divergent thinking patterns; the potential for creative production; fluency, originality, frequency, complexity. However, they also emphasize that highly creative people also possess the ability to problem solve — that is to easily generate viable solutions by applying knowledge and imagination in a given situation. As well, creative people are producers of something that is valued or has worth to others. Both products and problem solutions are not only novel and useful, but often surprising or non-obvious to others.
While taking all of these things into consideration, with children perhaps an easier way to determine predilection toward high creativity is to simply observe students/children in action, to talk with them about how they think. imagine, and solve problems. Collecting and examining anecdotal data concerning certain key personality characteristics from teachers, parents and peers can also be very helpful in recognizing highly creative children. (By the way, parents and peers are pretty good at knowing which kids are creative!)
Barbara Clark-Source: Clark, B. (2008). Growing up gifted (7th ed.) Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.
- Creativeness and inventiveness
- Keen sense of humor
- Ability for fantasy
- Openness to stimuli, wide interests
- Intuitiveness
- Flexibility
- Independence in attitude and social behavior
- Self-acceptance and unconcern for social norms
- Radicalism
- Aesthetic and moral commitment to self-selected work
Kingore
Kingore, B. (Spring 2004). High Achiever, Gifted Learner, Creative Learner.
Understanding Our Gifted.