Teaching Young Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom


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This guide encourages and enables teachers to identify gifted children as early as age four and create a learning environment that supports all students. Proven, practical strategies and techniques help you teach to multiple intelligences, compact and extend the curriculum, communicate with parents, and more.




Bringing Out the Best


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Hundreds of ways to promote creativity and intellectual development--without pushing. Recommended by Head Start.




Teach for Attention!


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A lively read from a working teacher offers practical engagement strategies for students with attention challenges If learning is a motor, student engagement is the key. But when teaching students with ADHD and other attention challenges, sometimes even the most finely tuned classroom can sputter. Teach for Attention! is your tool belt of teaching strategies for students with ADHD, low self-confidence, distraction, and other attention challenges. Dozens of true classroom stories show the strategies in action. It’s all about making simple fixes so you can reach every student without changing your approach or revamping your curriculum. Carry these ideas with you like tools on a belt—the right one will be there when you need it!




Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students


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Teaching children how to manage their intense emotions is one of the most difficult aspects of parenting or educating gifted children. Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students: Helping Kids Cope With Explosive Feelings provides a much-needed resource for parents and educators for understanding of why gifted children are so extreme in their behavior and how to manage the highs and lows that accompany emotional intensity. Presented in an easy-to-read, conversational style, this revised and updated second edition contains additional chapters addressing temperament and personality development, as well as expanded role-plays and strategies designed to show parents and teachers how to interact and guide gifted children in a way that teaches them how to recognize, monitor, and adjust their behavior. Updated resources and worksheets make this practical resource a must-read for anyone wishing to make a positive and lasting impact on the lives of gifted children.




Gifted Young Children


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Gifted Young Children is a practical guide to identifying and supporting young children who may be gifted or talented. Louise Porter outlines how to identify and provide educationally for children aged up to 8 years with advanced development. She explains how teachers and parents can promote children's emotional and social adjustment, including ways to enhance self-esteem, encourage friendships and support their autonomy. She shows how parents can discuss giftedness with children and respond to their needs. Updated to reflect recent research, this second edition is a valuable resource for parents and anyone working with or caring for a gifted or talented child. Praise for the first edition: a wealth of creative ideas and practical advice for developing the talents of this under-served population. Her humour and candor, compassion and insight will endear her work to readers internationally.' Joan Franklin Smutny, Director, Center for Gifted, National-Louis University, USA a comprehensive text that will meet the needs of a wide range of readers from early childhood professionals and teachers to parents.' Wilma Vialle, The Australasian Journal of Gifted Education interesting, clear and comprehensive' Helen Wilson, Research Centre for Able Pupils, Oxford Brookes University,UK




The Underachieving Gifted Child


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Why are some gifted children willing to tackle new challenges whereas others seem insecure or uninterested? Why do some gifted students achieve while others become caught in a cycle of underachievement? Are there strategies teachers and parents can implement that promote an achievement-oriented attitude? The Underachieving Gifted Child: Recognizing, Understanding, and Reversing Underachievement answers these important questions. Although there are many factors that contribute to achievement, achievement-oriented students exhibit four key traits: they believe that they have the skills to perform well, they expect that they can succeed, they believe what they are doing is meaningful, and they set realistic expectations and implement strategies to successfully complete their goals. This book offers specific strategies to help increase student achievement by improving students' attitudes in these four important areas.




Parenting Gifted Children 101


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This practical, easy-to-read book explores the basics of parenting gifted children, truly giving parents the "introductory course" they need to better understand and help their gifted child. Topics include myths about gifted children, characteristics of the gifted, the hows and whys of advocacy, social and emotional issues and needs, strategies for partnering with your child's school, and more. Parenting Gifted Children 101 explores ways for you to help your child at home and maximize your child's educational experience with strategies that are based on research, but easy to implement. Each chapter—from parenting twice-exceptional students to navigating the possible challenges that school may hold for your child—contains resources for further reading and insights from more than 50 parents and educators of gifted children. Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented 2017 Legacy Book Award Winner - Parenting




Raising Gifted Kids


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Raising an extremely bright child - quick, curious, sensitive, and introspective - is a daunting challenge. Parents need insight into their own motivations (as well as those of their children), and the courage and ability to make tough decisions about their child's development. "Raising Gifted Kids" will help parents understand and cope with the obstacles they face in raising a gifted child, and help them make the best choices for their son's or daughter's growth and happiness.




Models of Counseling Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults


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Part I: Introduction $x chapter 1 $x Introduction 1 $x by Sal Mendaglio $x Models of Counseling the Gifted 3 $x References 4 $x chapter 2 $x Counseling Issues and Research 7 $x by Sidney M. Moon $x What Is Giftedness? 8 $x Behavioral Characteristics 13 $x Affective and Conative Issues 15 $x Counseling Interventions 19 $x Conclusion 26 $x References 27 $x Part II: The Models $x chapter 3 $x Affective-Cognitive Therapy $x for Counseling Gifted Individuals 35 $x by Sal Mendaglio $x Conception of Giftedness 35 $x Conception of Personality 44 $x Model of Counseling 47 $x Application 57 $x References 67 $x chapter 4 $x A Systems Approach to Counseling $x Gifted Individuals and Their Families 69 $x by Volker Thomas and Karen E. Ray $x Introduction 69 $x Conception of Giftedness 70 $x Conception of Personality 74 $x Model of Counseling 75 $x Application 88 $x Conclusion 92 $x References 92 $x chapter 5 $x A Developmental Perspective 97 $x by Jean Sunde Peterson $x Conception of Giftedness 97 $x Conception of Personality 104 $x Model of Counseling 105 $x Application 116 $x Case Illustration 119 $x References 124 $x chapter 6 $x Counseling Underachieving Students $x and Their Parents 127 $x by Caryln L. Saunders $x Conception of Giftedness 127 $x Conception of Personality 130 $x Model of Counseling 131 $x Applications 144 $x References 150 $x chapter 7 $x Counseling Highly Gifted Children $x and Adolescents 153 $x by Catherine M. Boland and Miraca U.M. Gross $x Conception of Giftedness 153 $x Conception of Personality 162 $x Model of Counseling 167 $x Application 182 $x References 194 $x chapter 8 $x Gifted Identity Formation: $x A Therapeutic Model for Counseling $x Gifted Children and Adolescents 199 $x by Andrew Mahoney, Don Martin, $x & Magy Martin $x Conception of Giftedness 199 $x Conception of Personality 207 $x Model of Counseling 210 $x Application 215 $x References 227 $x chapter 9 $x Science, Spirit, and Talent Development 231 $x by Barbara Kerr $x Conception of Giftedness 231 $x Conception of Personality 236 $x Model of Counseling 238 $x Application 247 $x References 250 $x chapter 10 $x The Role of Counseling in the Development $x of Gifted Students' Actiotopes: $x Theoretical Background and Exemplary $x Application of the 11-SCC 253 $x by Albert Ziegler and Heidrun Stoeger $x Conception of Giftedness 253 $x Conception of Personality 261 $x Model of Counseling 262 $x Application 270 $x Concluding remarks 280 $x References 281 $x Part III: Conclusion $x chapter 11 $x Conclusion 285 $x by Jean Peterson $x Conception of Giftedness 286 $x Conceptions of Personality 287 $x Model of Counseling 288 $x Application 291 $x Conclusion 292 $x References 292 $x About the Authors 301 $x About the Editors 301 $x About the Authors 302 $x.




College at 13


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What is it like to be 13 and going to college? Is such radical acceleration helpful or harmful? This book describes 14 highly gifted, young women, now in their 30s, who left home to go to college at age 13 to 16, skipping all or most of high school. The authors describe what they were like as young college students, the leadership, idealism, and sense of purposefulness that they developed, and their lives 10 to 13 years later. This inspirational book will help educators and parents of gifted children understand that gifted kids need academic challenge, that there are colleges with specific programs for such students, that it doesn't harm them to leave home early, and that keeping them interested in learning is vitally important.