Intelligence is made of neural, experiential, and reflective components that help us know our way around the good use of our minds. Costa's theory of intelligence behaviors. Intelligence is composed of acquired habits or state of mind that are evident in such behaviors as persistence, flexibility, decreased impulsiveness, enjoyment of thinking, and reflectiveness. Golman's theory of emotional intelligence. Cole's theory of moral intelligence.
Intelligence is composed of cognitive, psychological or emotional, and moral realms.
These theories of intelligence combined with the emerging and growing knowledge about the brain's growth and development cause our traditional definitions of intelligence, and gifted and talented to be obsolete. Such obsolescence combined with the emerging knowledge of the whole subject of intelligence held by our public has required us to reexamine how we design and implement the gifted and talented program in our school district. Many times we are trapped by our traditions when old systems are kept because they are known commodities. We hold on to these traditional systems because they are working in a reasonably successful manner. Some individuals say that our gifted and talented students will be lost and neglected if they are included in the mainstream classroom.