Learning Style and Intelligence Tests

Both the Gregorc test and the Gardner helped me learn the best way for me to learn and who I are. For the Gregorc test  I learned that I am a Concrete Random learner. That means that I like to be independent, take risks, complete experiments, and solve problems. I do this is by playing games, creating products, creating unusual solutions, and studying independently. For the Gardner test I learned that I am strong in logical-mathematics, music, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. This means I think by reasoning, via rhythms, and by bouncing ideas off people and deeply inside themselves. It also means I love to experiment, play music, lead other people, and set goals. I need to be able to explore, play music, talk with friends, and have alone time. I will take away from this that I am good at math, science, and music. This information will help at school because I know I need to try my best at writing since I am not as good as I am at math. I also know that I should try my best at math, science and music, but if I need to focus more on writing I know I can because I can easily get A's in those subjects.
Three people I admire are my mom, my dad and my brother.  I believe my mom is a concrete sequential learner. She likes to learn by doing hands on activities also she is very organized. I think my dad is a sequential learner because he likes to have an order when doing activities, and he likes having detail on what we are doing. My brother is a concrete random, like me, because he enjoys doing experiments and he likes to solve problems.
In conclusion, the Gregorc tests and the Gardner tests help you think about how you learn. It also helps you to think about what you need to work on. In all, these tests are helpful to everyone.

The Ups and Downs/ Myths and Truths of being Gifted

The Ups and Downs of Being Gifted

Other children often think that gifted children have everything set up for them and their life is perfect. However, this is not true. Even though, gifted kids have a lot of ups, they also have some downs. What I mean by ups is something that is to the gifted children's advantage. The downs are the gifted children's disadvantages.
As a gifted child, I have experienced a lot of advantages along with disadvantages. I will being putting my personal experiences along with statistics in this blog. An advantage of being gifted is being able to take advanced classes. For example, I am taking Honors Geometry at the high school, and I am also taking Rogate 8. I am truly lucky to be able to experience these opportunities because my sister and my brother both had to take Algebra 1 multiply times due to their middle schools not offering higher math. However, a disadvantage of being gifted is being made fun of. Other students will often call gifted children names, like nerd or geek. Sometimes the gifted children will dumb themselves down. They could do so much that their brain actually believes they are not gifted causing them to waste their potential.
My second advantage of being gifted is that it helps you with college. Having gifted classes on your resume like Rogate 8, helps you when college are picking students. Those gifted classes show your  intelligents in one area or multiple areas and based on your report card and GPA they can tell in which areas you are gifted. This helps you because if you are majoring in the subject you are gifted in,  they will think of accepting you more. A disadvantage of being gifted is asynchronous development. Asynchronous development is when one of your 4 maturities mature faster than all the others. For example, if your intellectual maturity matures faster than your other maturities you could not be able to handle the stress of the advanced classes. If you have a lot of responsibility and a lot of homework because of advanced classes, than it would be harder to handle all the stress and work. I have experienced this. Last year, I had a lot of homework one night including a paper due the next day and a test in Algebra I.  With all the pressure, I just could not handle all the stress. My mom helped me through by completing one step at a time. This is the method that helps me best when I am stressed. I recommend gifted children find something that comforts you and helps you with stress for the future ahead.

Myth About Gifted Children

The child is getting poor grades he/she cannot be gifted.

Gifted students are happy, popular, and well adjusted in school.

 

Truths About Gifted Children

The truth is the person with poor grades is actually just bored. The gifted child is bored by not having a challenge. Therefore, the child sees no point in trying or they could produce bad study habits causing the child to fail. In addition, poor grades could  be due to being made fun of and being classified as a nerd. So the child dumbs himself down to fit in with the popular crowd. Either way the child needs to be helped so someone can fix the problem.

Most people think gifted children are fine with school and fit into the "crowd". However, this is not true. Gifted children can be called mean names, such as geek and nerd. If the gifted children do not fit into the "crowd", then they often can be bullied. Studies show "that 20 to 25% of gifted children have social and emotional difficulties about twice as many as in the general population of the students." If help is not provided, than the difficulties could get out of hand,s and there will not be as many gifted children because of dumbing down.

 

There is a lot of misconceptions about gifted children. Everyone needs to step back and give gifted children a chance. If most people do this, there will be very little misconceptions than abundances of misconceptions. Also, gifted children should not be afraid of showing what talent they have. With these actions, I think there will be many more gifted children in the future.

 

Rogate 8 Introductory post

Christopher Ross Patterson

• I am in 8th grade.
• My favorites subjects are math and science.
•  I enjoy learning about planes and there history.
• I enjoy watching TV, running, playing soccer, and playing outside on my free time.
• I want to be a pilot in the Air Force like my dad.
• Being around my family on vacation and and mint chocolate chip ice cream.