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2. Index
• Gifted areas
• Role models
• Parental support
• Lessons
• Teach Basic Life Skills
• Emotional Management
• Skills involved in SEL
• Increase Resiliency
• Manage talent
• The Ripple Effect
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3. Gifted areas
Academic Leadership
Player
Performing Arts Creative Thinking
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4. Academic
• Good memory
• Acquires basic skill knowledge quickly
• High academic success in special interest area
• Advanced comprehension
• Widely reading in interest areas
• Efficient articulation
• Ability to conclude on curiosity
• Pursues interests with enthusiasm
• Dare to compete
• Liking to develop hobbies in areas of interest
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5. Leadership
• Assumes responsibility
• High expectations for self and others
• Fluent, concise self-expression
• Can see consequences & impact of decisions
• Good judgment in decision making
• Likes structure
• Well-liked by peers
• Self-confident
• Organized
• Ability to execute well
• Expert in subject matter
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6. Player
• High energy level
• Enjoys participation in various competitions
• Excels in difficult athletic, in-door or out-door
games or activities
• Exhibits precision in movement
• Well-coordinated
• Good anticipative skills
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7. Performing arts
• Exhibits creative expression
• Unusual ability for expressing self, utilizing
words & emotion in the fine arts
• Desire for producing original work
• Outstanding with relationships
• Good coordination
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8. Creative thinking
• Independent thinker
• Good in solving puzzles & algorithms
• Exhibits original thinking in oral & written
expression
• Generates multiple solutions to
a given problem
• Exhibits a sense of humor
• Often improvises
• Being different from others
• Creates and invents
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9. Intellectual ability
• Learns rapidly
• Formulates abstractions
• Processes information in complex ways
• Enhanced awareness
• Excited about new ideas
• Enjoys hypothesizing
• Utilizes a large vocabulary
• Curious – inclined to ask questions
• High motivation for learning
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10. Role models
Children need appropriate adults
who can model personal responsibility
Mastery Model
• Guides, demonstrates & present goal attainment
• Success story being responsible
Coping Model
• Demonstrates delayed goal attainment - failure
first, progressing toward proficiency
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11. Parental support
• Believe in resilience, be flexible
• Give respect
• Share, discuss, communicate & guide
• Allow freedom
• Share rites & culture
• Encourage to analyse; allow to choose
• Focus on strengths, improve weaknesses
• Challenge excellence
• Reframe
Turn problems into promise
Damage into restoration
Difficulty into proficiency
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12. Caring relationships
• Keep all organs at low profile, heart, brain,
eyes, ears,, tongue!
• Love unconditionally, Establish basic trust
• Deliver support messages - encouragement
• Spend time, Show interest
• Pay attention honestly
• Listen non-judgmentally
• Exhibit patience
• Get to know interests, strengths & dreams
• Show compassion (Observe problems,
behavior, appearance level,etc)
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13. Be guide
• Get child associated to one positive person
• Set high expectations, convey & guide
• Create memories. Establish rituals and
traditions which last lifelong
• Teach gratitude towards who supported.
• Teach to respect relationships with relatives
• Start early. Problems are harder to treat
• Let children put their feet on firm ground
• Keep observation & guidance
• Share tips like enhancing judgment
• Support with all possible resources for good
causes like education, hobbies, interest,etc
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14. Integrate
• Integrate child with family culture
• Integrate family world with child’s world
• Take stock of your child’s needs & support
• Promote moral development
• Establish regular dialogue & effective
communication on all kinds of subjects
• Exchange experiences with each other
• To know themselves, to do SWOT analysis
• To evaluate educational & career path
• To follow role models
• To demonstrate to do what is aimed or decided
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15. Lessons
• To improve Child’s ability to be responsible?
• Encourage to have a purpose in life
• Purpose & approach to be taken seriously
• Explain what is empathetic & compassionate
• Educate to have consistent & rational behavior
• Teach them glimpse of management
• To impress with love what is ideal behavior,
effective communication, respecting different
views, to defend without offending
• To be aware of challenges & opportunities
• To set & keep attending small goals
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16. Teach Basic Life Skills
To teach basic life skills, How to…
• Live with kindness & polite
• Respect (elders, different views, etc)
• Friendly & get along with all
• Listen & absorb • Observe & learn
• Keep patience • Stay organised
• Keep healthy & fit • Manage money
• Enhance various skills
• Shop, cook, study, dress, sing, swim, walk, eat
• Cross the road safely & read signal at street
• Follow basic religion & rites
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17. Teach basics
Divine Virtues
Accuracy Detachment Happiness Patience
Appreciation Determination Honesty Peace
Benevolence Discipline Humility Politeness
Bliss Easiness Introspection Power
Carefree Egolessness Knowledge Purity
Cheerfulness Energetic Lightness Royalty
Cleanliness Farsightedness Love Self Confidence
Contentment Fearlessness Maturity Simplicity
Cooperation Generosity Mercy Sweetness
Courage Good Wishes Obedience Tiredlessness
Orderliness Tolerance
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18. Teach Emotional Management
• Emotional management to be taught to child
• Social emotional learning is learning life skills
• How to deal with oneself and relationships
• How to work in an effective manner
• Children experience emotions in their raw state
without knowing how to control those
• Strong negative emotions are hindrance to
initiatives & learning
• To recognize emotions & learn to manage
• To sympathy for others, maintaining positive
relationships in constructive & ethical manner
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19. Skills involved in SEL
• Recognizing emotions in self and others
• Managing strong emotions (positive & negative)
• Recognizing strengths & areas of improvements
• Listening & communicating accurately & clearly
• Considering others' perspectives & sensing their
emotions, caring relationships
• Respecting others & self, appreciate differences
• Including identifying problems correctly &
Problem solving skills
• Setting positive and realistic goals
• Sense of purpose & future
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20. Skills involved in SEL
• Problem solving, decision making, and planning
• Approaching others and building positive
relationships, maintaining low profile
• Resisting negative peer pressure
• Cooperating, negotiating & managing conflict
nonviolently
• Working effectively in groups
• Help-seeking and help-giving
• Showing ethical and social responsibility
• Opportunities to contribute & participate
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21. Increase Resiliency
• To be accommodative
• To be friendly
• To be flexible analysing the situation
• To develop ability to trust
• To encourage transparency
• To be independent
• To learn assertiveness
• To learn effective communication
• To be helpful, supportive & caring
• To live in predictable & stable environment
• To make a school as a place of security
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22. Manage talent
• As parents, grandparents, teachers, we need
to acknowledge talent & strengths of the child
• To encourage to excel in various skills &
attributes of those
• To have, convey & follow aligned expectations
• To allow those expand in as many fields,
sectors of life, areas of knowledge
• To support, encourage, give strength
• To help child to be life time achiever
• To share what & how you have achieved
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23. The Ripple Effect
• Personal responsibility is facets of derived
conclusions, knowledge, beliefs, values & skills
• It’s a feeling of pride for individual & associated
• It is adopted observing the success stories &
following the role model
• It is a great opportunity
• Be conscious of responsibility (behavior,
teaching, thinking, speaking, writing, acting), It
needs to be aligned & synchronised. It has a
ripple effect so be careful!
All the best!
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24. Thank You
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