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TO ADDRESS THE PROPER BRAIN |
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One of the main goals of our work is to highlight the importance of the ‘emotional’ brain in the learning process and its achievements as well. One of the most eloquent studies on this subject is the one carried out at Florida University by Thomas Oakland . Oakland tested 1,554 gifted and non-gifted students between the ages of 8 and 17 to determine whether temperament style separated children who excel in school from children with average capabilities. Using the Student Styles Questionnaire, researchers determined students' preferences in four categories; practical- This data, which is extremely important for our work, demonstrates the extent to which it is important to address the notion of the ‘proper’ brain if we want to help students. Emotional competency is extremely important when it comes to explaining success in every type of intellectual and emotional pursuit. This has been observed time and again among Olympic athletes whose performances were affected by their emotions. Technically and physically they were at their peak but emotionally they struggled. Ultimately, they paid a higher price. The same applies for countless numbers of students who have a negative “emotional memory“ linked to everything that is associated with academic learning and subject matter. * Harmel Kristin, Gifted students are more imaginative and emotional, UF study shows. See the Internet link |
imaginative, thinking-feeling, organized-flexible and extroversion-introversion. The study's most significant finding was that gifted students are more likely to use a feeling style rather than a thinking style. And while the majority of girls in both the gifted and non-gifted groups tended toward a feeling style rather than a thinking style, gifted boys are 28% more likely to prefer a feeling style than non-gifted boys. You may recall in the introduction of this book the dramatic numbers that differentiate boys from girls with regard to their success in school. It would appear that with gifted boys and girls there is no differentiation as both are likely to use the same temperament style of learning.
