Gifted and Talented Children:

Intelligence Traits that can be taught ~ A. Costa

Persistence and persevering
Decreasing impulsiveness
Listening to others – with understanding and empathy
Flexibility in thinking
Metacognition: awareness of our own thinking
Checking for accuracy and precision
Questioning and problem posing
Drawing on past knowledge and applying it to new situations
Precision of language and thought
Using all the senses
Ingenuity, originality, insightfulness: creativity
Wonderment, inquisitiveness, curiosity, and the enjoyment of problem solving – a sense of efficacy as a thinker