Skill competition and excellence in skills.

A number of terms used by teachers to describe "gifted" students: bright, talented, high flier, exceptionally able. Teachers use these terms to refer to students who have demonstrated particular abilities and for whom different educational provision is needed (Thomson, 2006, p 3). Definig giftedness has progressed from a one-test and one-fixed construct  approch centering on intellectual giftedness to the concept of multiple talents or intellegence (George, 2003). One definition says that gifted students have the potentional to demonstrate superior perfomances in a number of areas and talented refers to those who do this in single area (George, 2000 cited by Thomson, 2006). Gagne proposed model of giftedness and talent where giftedness is the potential or aptitude within an individual and that this can be developed into talent by environmental  or other factors.