Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided thousands of readers with an answerand has helped them to apply it to their own lives. Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide our own feelings, needs, and memories skillfully in order to meet our parents ...
First published in 1992 and called "the orange Bible" by teachers, this revised and updated edition includes new chapters on the characteristics of gifted students and parenting gifted kids, expansion of strategies explained in the first edition, and new forms for teachers' use.
Up-to-date, authoritative information about giftedness, gifted education, problems, personality traits, and more, written by an educator of gifted kids and their parents.
For courses in the Introduction to Gifted Education. Now in paperback, this top-selling, comprehensive text for courses in gifted and talented education, taught in special education as well as general education programs, features the most up-to-date research on gifted and talented education. Written by an internationally-known expert in the field, ...
People can regain their long-lost authentic sense of truly being alive by understanding how that they, as children, adapted to their parents' narcissistic needs and locked their true selves away in "solitary confinement".
This comprehensive text by leaders in the field presents the best practices in gifted education. After a brief overview of current issues in the field, Education of the Gifted and Talented discusses the characteristics of gifted students as well as challenges of parenting and the understanding and counseling of gifted children. The authors address ...
What tests are used to identify giftedness? How are decisions made about placement and services after a battery of tests have been administered? Beyond standardized testing, how do students qualify for services? A guide for parents, teachers, and university students seeking to identify and/or work with the gifted. It conveys: a history of ...
This book has the intent to increase the awareness of parents, teachers and others working with gifted children particularly to recognize that these children and their families have special emotional needs and opportunities that are quite often overlooked and, thus, neglected. Most often this neglect results "only" in unfulfilled potential and ...
This user-friendly guidebook educates parents and teachers about important gifted issues such as working with schools, evaluating classroom programs, forming parent support groups, choosing appropriate curriculum, meeting social and emotional needs, and surviving the ups and downs.
Here is the first book to address the needs of "conundrum kids", bright children whose overall academic performance does not match their intellectual capabilities. Concise and authoritative, it will be a welcome resource for helping smart yet troubled children achieve their potential.
Los Angeles Times journalist Miles Corwin spent a year in the classroom with the members of the only gifted magnet program in South-Central Los Angeles. A remarkable group of young scholars, these seniors have managed to excel despite the volatile environment in which they live. And Still We Rise is a moving chronicle of their courage, ...
"An examination of the essential topics teachers, parents, and researchers need to know about the social and emotional development of gifted children. The book includes chapters on peer pressure and social acceptance, resilience, delinquency, and underachievement. It is concise, comprehensive, and wide-ranging in its coverage. All Levels
Comprehensive Curriculum for Gifted Learners provides a theoretical, research-based framework and practical ideas for writing, implementing, and adapting curriculum for gifted learners in a standards-based era. Readers are first introduced to various curriculum theories, the Integrated Curriculum Model, curriculum reform, and a process for ...
What does it really mean to be gifted and how can schools or other institutions identify, teach, and evaluate the performance of gifted children? Gifted education is a crucial aspect of schooling in the United States and abroad. Most countries around the world have at least some form of gifted education. With the first edition becoming a major ...
Like the national bestseller "A Mind at a Time, Genius Denied" proves that the "one size fits all" educational philosophy fails children--in this case, gifted students who are shortchanged by undemanding schools.
Advice for students who have been labeled gifted. Topics covered include how to understand giftedness and view it as an asset, how to handle fitting in with other students, and how to make the most out of being gifted. Also addressed is how to cope with depression or suicidal feelings.
Reflects current thinking on the education of the gifted. It presents the issues, offering definitions of giftedness; describes appropriate programme models and teaching practice; and covers creativity and thinking skills, counselling services and other special topics concerning gifted students.
A remarkable 10-month chronicle of the lives of a group of gifted students who attended Crenshaw High School, located in South Central Los Angeles, one of the poorest and most violent areas of the country
When parents and teachers think about gifted kids they - not surprisingly - focus on their intellectual needs. But gifted kids are much more than test grades. Delisle and Galbraith take a close-up look at gifted kids from the inside out. Topics include: * Self-image and self-esteem * Perfectionism * Multipotential * Depression and stress * ...
Quart provides a revelatory and provocative examination of the enormous pressures being brought to bear today on children designated as "gifted"--by both schools and parents--and how all of the special programs, classes, and competitions meant to ensure they will be highly successful can have serious "revenge effects" and troubling long-term ...
Gifted children deserve the opportunity to learn all that they're capable of learning, at their own--ususally rapid--pace. In this book, an expert gives advice on how parents can discover whether or not their child is actually gifted, and how to select preschool and kindergarten programs.
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