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Gifted children
A skilled or talented child is one who shows reliably wonderful execution in any advantageous line of achieving. Along with these we will incorporate not only the mentally talented but also the individuals who show promise in music, the graphic art, creative writing, dramatics, mechanical knowledge and social leadership.

Characteristics of gifted children
1.	Normally gifted children tend to have sharp and strong memory and physically better than the average children. Gifted students show superiority over the average student in many cases such as physical development and social or emotional adjustment. 2.	Learns rapidly and grasp information’s quickly and easily. 3.	Matured nature to external world. Performs difficult mental tasks. 4.	 Intellectual curiosity, knowing about many things of which other children are unaware, asking many questions interested in a wide range of things. 5.	 More confident, more successful, they use lots of common sense and practical       knowledge. 6.	 Abstract thinking.

Ways to engage educationally gifted children effectively
•	Motivation and Encouragement: There’s no separate schools for gifted children, but normally in all the schools, the teacher encourage and support the gifted children, give them the tools they need to succeed, This might give the child more independent. Normally these kids make them self-updated with new information by reading books, browsing websites, and more. A few schools mostly from other and advanced countries started identifying talented and offering enriched program like acceleration approach, teaching approach. Enrichment approach. •	Provide intellectual challenges: Intellectual challenging is to make the child mentally stimulating in different ways; this could be different like activity\languages that is taught at school. Here, parents also play major role by providing them all the facilities and tools to work hard on their talent.

Educationally backward children
According to BARTON HALL, “Backwardness is general is applied, where their educational achievements falls below the level of their natural abilities,” i.e. Normally backward child are slow learners, they show inability to progress normally in education as well as other activity/curriculum.

Characteristics of educationally backward children
1.	Slow learners, normally these kids are slow learners and they works on all the tasks slowly. 2.	Mentally and physically they have very slow growth and development. 3.	Lack of confidence level and decision making ability. 4.	Poor communication with respect to language. 5.	They always dependent on others for everything. 6.	Backwardness can be observed into 2 characteristics specific or special backwardness, it depends on each individuals.

Ways to improve the academic achievement of educationally backward children
•	At schools teachers make sure that children get special attention and provide all the facilities and tools that will help the children to improve themselves. •	Usually these kids don't get benefit from the classroom teaching. The teachers can easily know them by their behavior, expressions, inattention and failure to respond simple questions in class, if they left like that, the slow learners inevitably turn into educationally backward,. •	At schools, they organize special classes after the school hours, teachers identifies whether the child is academically backward and give individual attention to help them with the subjects they are lacking behind. And its parent’s responsibilities to insist their children and give their time and ensure their child work hard. There are many tutorials centers, tuitions especially of individual pupils, coaching center. Surprise test is conducted to improve in the subjects, daily practice and hard work will help such students to improve in academics. Other than academics child should b encouraged in sports, and other co-curricular activities.