All learners should have the right to reach their full potential. If learners are shy or if they are avoiding talking to people, that might not say that the learners wants to be quiet or do not want to take part in discussions. When it comes to talented learners they even might have more to contribute to the discussion if they dare to speak out or if they would get the opportunity to speak in a discussion. The talented learners can also be twice exceptional, which makes it more complex and it can also affect the social skills. Educators need to be aware of the talented learners social skills to be able to to help out in different ways to include the talented learner.
Even if the talented learner shows great skills in one or many ways the social skills might be for some, their achilles heel. Educators can make a great difference for talented learners. In this chapter you will get tools to help talented learners become more socially skilled and included in social situations. Let you be the one who makes the talented learner blossom in colors and let it not be grey.
Ordinary school environment and classroom climate needs to be positive to be inclusive. Education in general also needs to be working towards social skills and social inclusion. But what are social skills and social inclusion? In the first subchapter the definition of social inclusion will be presented for you.
Talented learners and twice exceptional learners have very developed skills in some areas and in other areas they might be lacking. This makes it even harder for an educator to both handle and understand and even harder to make the school an inspiring, motivating and meaningful. The subchapter “Social inclusion of talented learners in the classroom” brings up the importance of having friends and classmates and make the classroom a learner friendly arena.
Learners and educators are all individuals with different backgrounds, emotions and skills. You do not know about the talented learners background and how the morning was at home or on the bus to school. Talented learners may struggle with the social environment and you as an educator need to think beyond the dehavior of the learner and focus on how to support the learner to tackale ordinary social siuations. The chapter of the school climate focus on making positive relations between learners, talented learners and educators and to make the school climate positive.
Next subchapter is about how to make efficient school management tuned to promoting talent. Education is more then supporting talented learners producing good grades and marks, educator needs to support talented learners to become motivated, self confident, respected and involved in their own learning process. This equires schools to create a positive learning environment with the support and engagement from an educator or adult.
Educators needs to continuously develop and be humble about their knowledge. Talented learners can put teachers in the situation that they need to take the role as a mentor instead of being the teacher who teach, you need to guide. As a mentor and guide the skills needs to be social and inclusive for the talented.