A Gifted Student Is...
By Claire, age 10.
What is a gifted student? Do they do well on standardized tests? Are they simply good at learning? It's a question not easily answered. But this is what I believe a gifted student to be: For a gifted student, one thing may come like a snap, another may seem to come slow as a tortoise. They may be gifted in one area, and consider another area the hardest thing since granite. But in the area that they are gifted in, a gifted student has innate skill, and it is natural for them to do it. This is what gives them a gift. They have the potential to succeed. However, this gift is nothing if the student doesn't have the will to use it. The potential is useless without the want.A gifted student isn't necessarily gifted in school. They could be gifted in music, sports, or even cooking. If the student enjoys using their gift, they will excel in that area, running leaps and bounds, asking questions, finding answers. In that area, things come naturally, and it seems to be no work at all to succeed. In fact not succeeding would be a chore if they use their potential.
A gifted student has the recipe for success inside themselves: Talent, Will, Knowledge, and their own secret ingredients. They find this recipe, and gather all the ingredients by asking questions and finding answers. When they find all the ingredients, from within themselves or from other sources, they mix them all together. With this mixture, they will succeed. That is what I think a gifted student is.
Claire, age 10, wrote this essay as an assignment for an expository writing course through the Stanford Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY). She lives in Riverside County.
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