{"id":491,"date":"2014-06-13T13:10:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T20:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/advancedlearning\/?page_id=491"},"modified":"2022-05-04T08:42:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T15:42:40","slug":"overexcitability","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/advancedlearning\/overexcitability\/","title":{"rendered":"Overexcitability"},"content":{"rendered":"

Understanding “overexcitabilities”<\/strong>\u00a0 is important for educators\u00a0 in order to support the highly able learner’s sense of self. The term “overexcitability<\/strong>” (OE)\u00a0 in itself might cause confusion at it seems to elicit the notion of “too much.” Contrary to this interpretation, OEs may more succinctly be seen as a different quality of experiencing the world (Piechowski, 2014). These heightened experiences stem form the nervous system’s ability to become excitable and for highly able learners the capacity to maintain and create this energy is greater, consequently the reference to “over” in the term OE. In other words, while every person experiences the world through their perceptions and as such experiences excitability, for highly able learners, these experiences are richer, more complex and more intense (Piechowksi, 2014).\u00a0 These experiences can elicit great joy and eventually might propel the individual to a higher level of personal development. Paradoxically, while the OE experiences are integral to their developmental potential, these OEs may place the highly able learner at risk for social and emotional issues not necessarily because of he OE’s per se, but as a consequence of how people respond to them (Piechowksi, 2014).<\/span><\/p>\n

FORMS AND EXPRESSIONS OF OVEREXCITABILITY<\/strong><\/span>
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\nPSYCHOMOTOR<\/strong><\/span>
\nSurplus of energy<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n