Question: What kind of school should I choose for my gifted child: public or private?

 A lot of parents of gifted children at the age of 4-5 years have the same question: will their children have enough competition in public school or should they send her or him to a private school?

Answer: It is not important whether it is public or private. The main thing is that the school teacher and the institution itself have a desire to meet the needs of gifted children. A school has to have a good “gifted” curriculum with different options for satisfying students' needs. Also it has to be flexible enough.
It depends on a particular school whether it meets gifted students’ needs or not. And it could be not necessary private school. Good teachers also matter in choosing school. You have to pay attention that sometimes “an excellent teacher” doesn’t always mean a great tutoring for gifted children. Even in schools with great reputation might be teachers who don’t want to work with and develop gifted children. You should find out about the general information about Schools you like and about teaching staff in it.

Question: At what age a giftedness can be detected?

Sometimes very small children already have some features of giftedness. That’s what consider their parents and relatives. The main question for them: at what age can they find out if their kid is gifted with the help of tests?

Answer: Sometimes it is possible to tell whether a child is gifted already in the infancy. The main features of giftedness in such age are irregular alertness and the need to sleep less. As some scientists insist, the need for stimulation is a feature of gifted babies. High activeness and extreme curiosity may also mean that your young child is gifted. Gifted children start to walk and talk earlier than the rest of their peers. But sometimes we can observe an opposite event: for example, very often gifted children start to talk at the age period between one and two years. So, it is possible to define whether your child is gifted rather early with the help of various behavior characteristics.