Wise Ones Australia

Personal Assessment

Gifted is an innate potential created by a complex brain structure. It can be nurtured with love and interesting activities and suitably challenging learning experiences. Talented is the adult expression of this potential at a level significantly higher than other adults.

In sport this would be State grade and above. In academia this would be a Masters or PH.D, in business perhaps corporate leadership and in the Arts it would be performance at an exhibition level. Gifted does not always translate into Talent. Personality, attitudes, opportunities and social conditions such as war or poverty may interfere in its development.

WiseOnes is a school based opportunity, a catalyst for talent development in early life. The child needs the school to take up the opportunity. That is the chance element in the child’s life – out of the child’s control even if they need the support very much.

Some characteristics that may help you decide whether this is relevant for your child:

• High language ability-spoken and written, memory for words, songs
• Seems older in thinking, imagination, analogies, inferences than others that age
• Talents well above average in art, music, sport, chess. drama
• High social skills-leader, organizer, humour, empathy, justice, negotiates well, wonders about ideas and the future, may be bossy, quite self-determined( stubborn, always right)
• Sets very high standards- perfectionist, 100% effort, judgemental, highly ethical

If your child fits several of these categories then it would be wise to have an assessment to check out their real potential .

This may be done personally in areas where we have a teacher, or online at www.testmychild.net for performance tests in English, Mathematics. Thinking (6+ years) and Personality( 10+)