I chose Maslow's Hierarchy of needs for this essay. The information I am using in this essay is from the readings provided by Dr. MacFarlane. According to Maslow, an individual is ready to act upon the growth need if and only if the deficiency needs are met. Maslow posited a hierarchy of human needs based on two groupings: deficiency needs and growth needs. Within the deficiency needs, each lower need must be met before moving to the next higher level. Once each of these needs have been satisfied, if at some future time a deficiency is detected, the individual will act to remove the deficiency. The first deficiency needs are physiological, safety, love and belongingness, and esteem. According to Maslow, an individual is ready to act upon …show more content…
A person who is lacking food, safety, love, and esteem will usually hunger for food more strongly than anything else. When these needs are not met, the urge to write poetry, the desire to acquire an automobile, the interest of American history, the desire of a new pair of shoes are forgotten or become secondary. I see children in my classroom on a daily basis hungry. They have free or reduced breakfast and lunch, but they're worried about dinner. As I teach the children high level scientific concepts, I can see that some are not interested due to their physiological needs not …show more content…
People want to give and receive love. For my gifted students, I ensure that they get to work in groups. There are clubs at our school that help students with belongingness needs. 4) Esteem needs: People need achievement and respect from others. Desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the world, and for independence and freedom. Satisfaction of self-esteem need leads to self-confidence, worth, and adequacy of being useful is necessary in the world. Gifted children struggle with self-esteem issues. They need all the help they can get from their teachers, parents, and schools. I praise my students when they do well, and I encourage them to do well if they do not. 5) Cognitive needs: The desire to know and understand. Gifted students have very high IQ (Terman, 1925). According to VanTassel-Baska, gifted children can read well and easily, are curious, ask probing questions, have high vocabulary, have high energy, have strong attachments and commitments, high levels of arithmetical reasoning, science, and art skills. As teachers, we need to ensure that we use strategies that help our gifted children enhance their
Gifted and talented programs are intrinsically valuable to many children’s education as they provide a system in which all students involved are engaged, challenged, and intellectually stimulated. In "How People Learn", Donovan, Bransford, and Pellegrino (1999) stress the importance of each student being given reasonable and appropriate goals based on his or her level of understanding and competency (p. 20). Gifted and talented programs help institutionalize the attempt to meet all student’s needs by providing uniquely appropriate challenges which aim to keep every student engaged, thus receiving the best chance at success. Although there are many valuable and important aspects of gifted education, there are also significant issues rooted in the base of America’s gifted and talented programs, one of which I will address throughout this paper. In my opinion, the most notable problem which troubles gifted and talented programs is the system by which students are selected to join their school’s gifted and talented program.
Based from the information provided by VanTassel-Baska, et. Al. (2009), gifted and talented students face the same issues as their regular peers but they have different way of viewing these issues and it affects them differently as well. The book discussed different issues that gifted learners face and recommendations on how to address these issues were also available for teachers, administrators and other school personnel. Also, Carol Strip Whitney (2011) in her book entitle Helping Gifted Learners Soar discussed stress as a factor that can distract and overpower anyone including gifted learners and for the gifted learners, there are many reasons and causes of stress. In this reflection, I will focus on two causes of stress, which are gifted learners as social capital and issues related to race and achievement.
Maslow believed that there was a hierarchy of five innate needs that influence people’s behaviors (Schultz & Schultz, 2013, p.246-247). In a pyramid fashion, at the base are physiological needs, followed by safety needs, then belonginess and love needs, succeeded by esteem needs, and finally the need for self-actualization. Maslow claimed that lower order needs must be at least partially satisfied before higher level needs are addressed. Furthermore, behavior is dominated by solely one need
Educators are able to use modification specified in the framework to create appropriate rigor needed for gifted learners. Educators can also differentiate the activities for gifted learners using flexibility, changes to complexity, and pace as stated in the framework. According to Programming Standard 1.1.1, gifted learners need time to reflect on their interests and strengths with support. The Cognitive Knowledge Taxonomy allows gifted learners time to explore their metacognitive knowledge and think about their thinking. Development of activities that encourages the use of variety of sources is a focal point of the NC AIG standards.
Psychologist Abraham Maslow created the hierarchy of needs, outlining and suggesting what a person need to reach self-actualization and reveal the true potential of themselves. In the model, Maslow propose that a person has to meet basic needs in order to reach the true potential of themselves. Biological/physiological needs, safety needs, love/belonging need, esteem needs according to Maslow is the fundamental frame for reaching the peak of self. The last need to be met on the scale
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Maslow suggested that there are five levels of need. Level one needs are basic needs such as food and shelter which need to be meet before moving to the next level of need. Each level should be meet in turn up to level five, self-actualisation. An example of this in current practice is providing children with snack and water during the school day fulfilling basic needs and providing opportunities to develop friendships and feel safe at school to express their feelings can fulfil needs in levels 2 and 3 of Maslowâ€TMs hierarchy of
A point that I found interesting is self-contained classroom for students that are identified as superior cognitive or multiple areas. I agree that students that are gifted need to have the appropriate environment to flourish. Similar to students with disabilities, the gifted students have special needs that require accommodations.
A common misconception is intelligence is inherited and does not change, so therefore, gifted children do not need special services. However, this mindset is very dangerous when it comes to the development of gifted children. It is widely believed that gifted students will get by on their own without any assistance from their school. After all,
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Teachers with gifted students can help a child with this problem by asking them to volunteer to assist a fellow student in an area they may be struggling in. On the other hand, some gifted students may struggle with perfectionism. This can be an issue for a student because in striving for perfection can be time consuming, tiresome, and in extreme cases, bad for one’s health. Along with perfectionism comes unrealistic expectations. Twice exceptional students have a tendency to be harsh critics of themselves.
Abraham Maslow did studies of the basic needs of human beings. He put these needs into a hierarchical order. This means that until the need before it has been satisfied, the following need can not be met (Encyclopedia, 2000). For example, if someone is hungry they are not thinking too much about socializing. In the order from lowest to highest the needs are psychological, safety, social, esteem, and self-actualization. The first three are classified as lower order needs and the last two are higher order (Hierarchy, 2000). Without meeting these needs workers are not going to be as productive as they could otherwise. The first three are considered to be essential to all humans at all times. The last two have been argued but are mostly considered to be very important as well.
Maslow believed that these five needs have to be improved from lower stage to the higher ones. Generally speaking, once the lower stage is met, individual’s need will change to the higher stage, and this need will replace the previous one and become the motivation factor. In this hierarchy, physiological, safety, and love/ belonging could be met by some simple external factors. However esteem and self-actualization need more internal factors, and for individuals, there is no limit for the higher demand. In a certain period, individual might have several needs, but there must be a major one which can lead individual’s behavior. Lower needs might be weaken when the individual’s need is in a higher stage, but either of them will be disappeared in any situation. The degrees of country’s development will influence individuals’ needs: individuals from developed countries have higher needs than individuals from developing countries (Maslow, 1968). Hierarchy of Needs theory paid attention to individual’s perspective, and indicated the individual 's needs are gradually transformed from low to high, which reflected the relationship between individual’s psychology and behavior. While this theory has some disadvantages, such as not taking account of the impact on the motivation of individual beliefs, and no
In this essay I will be discussing Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. I will unveil my understanding of the five stages as well as how I currently fulfill certain levels, and how I will continue to fulfill them through my career after graduation. After I cover all of Maslow’s levels I will explain how and why my future job is related to my self-actualization. Next, I will reflect on past events and people that have helped shape me and get me to the place I am now. To conclude this essay, I will summarize my writing and reflect on what I have learned about myself