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Introduction
This course provides an overview to the intellectual, socio-affective and moral needs of learners with high ability. Teachers will be introduced to the historical and philosophical background and current thinking in the education of learners with high ability. The course would also look into the typical personality characteristics of highly intelligent and creative persons. Other issues related to spiritual intelligence, emotional giftedness, moral reasoning, intensities in energy levels and positive maladjustment will be explored. Discussions of motivational and volitional strengths as sources of productive behaviours; underachievement and dual exceptionalities will be featured as well to enhance the capacity of professionals in this area to make a difference in their students’ development and address their affective, moral, as well as cognitive needs
This course is part of:
- Graduate Certificate in Understanding
Diverse Learners
Learners must complete the following courses to attain the Graduate Certificate in Understanding Diverse Learners (12 AU):
• MSE915 Assessment of Children and Youth with Special Needs
- Have an understanding of characteristics of gifted (or High Ability) learners and their affective and moral needs
- Knowledge of major conceptions of giftedness and how these translate into educational programming and provisions, including the curricular implications for High Ability learners.
- Dispel common myths about the social and emotional functioning of gifted people and contrast trends in research from 1900-the present regarding gifted people’s social and emotional adjustment.
- Describe the strengths and weaknesses of the available empirical literature on the traits and characteristics (including social, emotional, and moral needs) of the gifted
- Conceptions of the nature of intelligence, giftedness, and talent
- An introduction to traits of gifted people and the historical underpinnings of socio-affective concerns
- Identification of the gifted: Approaches to identification, identification for talent development programmes Intrapersonal and interpersonal dimensions: heightened sensitivities and overexcitabilities
- High Creatives and Emotional Vulnerabilities
- An introduction to dual exceptional learners: gifted with special needs
- Self concept of the gifted and peer concerns. Affiliation and Achievement for Gifted Girls
- Social Justice and Moral Reasoning of the Gifted - Curation of Web Resources Related to Topic
- Underachievement, Perfectionism, and Reversing Underachievement
- Meeting intellectual needs of the gifted and talented
- Meeting the social and emotional demands of the gifted and talented: Educators’ Role in Facilitating Socio-affective Growth of the Gifted Individual
- Parenting the Gifted: Concerns and Issues, parental role in nurturing the gifted child, working with parents
- Counseling Issues and Concerns of the gifted: Role of educators,
bibliotherapy, risk-taking
For working professionals who wish to gain a wider and deeper understanding and appreciation of what it means by the term – diversity – in various contexts, but within the education sector.
Standard Course Fee: S$4,490.80
SSG Funding Support | Course fee | Course fee payable after SSG funding, if eligible under various schemes | |
BEFORE funding & GST | AFTER funding & 9% GST | ||
Singapore Citizens (SCs) and Permanent Residents (PRs) (Up to 70% funding) | S$4,120.00 | N.A. | |
Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS) | N.A. | ||
SCs aged ≥ 40 years old | |||
- Standard course fee is inclusive of GST.
- NTU/NIE alumni may utilise their $1,600 Alumni Course Credits. Click here for more information.
| COURSE TITLE | ACADEMIC UNIT |
| MEC901 Child Development (0-8 years)* | 4 |
| MSE915 Assessment of Children and Youth with Special Needs* | 4 |
Listed courses are:
- Credit-bearing and stackable to Graduate Certificate in Understanding Diverse Learners (total 12AUs).
*SSG funded and SkillsFuture Credit approved
