Support for students
"The secret to succeeding is inner strength"Shaquill O'Neal
Kia ora and welcome to the students' page of TKI's gifted and talented community. On this page you can check out New Zealand and international websites with games, brain teasers, and activities for gifted and talented learners, as well as other information and resources that you might find interesting.
If you know other good websites we should have on our page, please email them to Elizabeth Robb, TKI Gifted and Talented Community Online Editor. Send her the web address (URL) of the site and explain why you think other students would enjoy it.
Games, activities and learning support
Click below to go to a page of links to:
Information on being gifted
Like others, you may not always be happy calling yourself 'gifted'. But sometimes you may feel there is something just a bit different about the way you think and learn compared to others your age.
Perhaps you have made some major achievements or won awards ahead of other students, but this is not always the case. The gifted student is not always the 'brightest' student in the class or the one who always gets top marks. You may stand out in some other way, like having ideas that are different from others', or maybe you ask a lot of interesting questions.
Gifted and talented learners can stand out in many ways. They can:
- be very interested in, or good at, academic thinking and school-work
- be very creative
- have good leadership and social skills
- be good at physical performances or sports
- have special cultural understanding and be good at cultural practices
- be good at visual or performing arts.
The things most gifted students have in common are a good sense of humour, curiosity about the world, and an ability to learn quickly and easily.