Traveling the Gagne DMGT Road

Jo Freitag 2009

Prof. Francoys Gagne proposes in A Differentiated Model of Giftedness and Talent (DMGT) that talents progressively emerge from the transformation of high aptitudes into the well-trained and systematically developed skills characteristic of a particular field of human activity or performance and that the developmental process can be facilitated or hindered by intrapersonal and environmental catalysts and chance happenings

Given positive effects of catalysts gifted students can make a smooth transition from giftedness to talent Twice exceptional gifted students with a learning disability will necessarily have negative effects from chance and have a more difficult passage Given appropriate support and plenty of positive intrapersonal and environmental catalysts twice exceptional students can also make the transition successfully