Gifted Young Children

Author: Louise Porter
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000249662
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
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

Guiding the Gifted Child

Author: James T. Webb
Publisher: Gifted Unlimited
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
This book seeks to increase the awareness by parents, teachers, and clinicians of the often overlooked unique emotional needs of gifted children.

Understanding Giftedness

Author: Maria Assunta Zanetti
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429840829
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
This concise, accessible guide explores the different models behind the concept of giftedness, examining the criteria for evaluating and identifying gifted children, in order to provide a deeper understanding of the lives of children and young people with high cognitive potential. It offers practical advice to parents and teachers, highlighting common queries and misconceptions and presenting evidence-based suggestions for management methods. Key topics covered include the difference between being gifted and talented, how to identify a gifted child, neurological differences between gifted children and their peers, dealing with perfectionism, and the best ways to parent and teach a gifted child. Avoiding prescriptive rules, the authors emphasise the importance of knowing and understanding the individual child whilst utilising research around giftedness to promote the best possible outcomes. Illustrated with case studies of student and teacher perspectives, the book offers an inclusive perspective and practical strategies, whereby the development of individual potential is viewed not only as a way to promote the psychological well-being of the individual but also as an opportunity and benefit for society. Understanding Giftedness is essential reading for parents and caregivers, as well as practitioners in clinical and educational psychology, counselling, mental health, nursing, child welfare, public healthcare and those in education who want to help young people develop their talents and achieve their full potential.

Gifted Children and Gifted Education

Author: Gary A. Davis
Publisher: Great Potential Press, Inc.
ISBN: 0910707731
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1

Book Description
As a college text or a reference for parents, this is a valuable tool for overcoming obstacles to successful education of GT students. The author's dry humor and useful explanations guide the reader through an enjoyable learning experience!

Helping Gifted Children Soar

Author: Carol Ann Strip
Publisher: Great Potential Press, Inc.
ISBN: 0910707413
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
A guide to the many issues gifted children face that offers parents and teachers advice on identifying gifted children, helping them get the most of classroom programs, forming parent support groups, meeting social and emotional needs, and choosing the appropriate curriculum.

A Field Guide to Gifted Students

Author: Charlotte Agell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000491072
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 71

Book Description
A Field Guide to Gifted Students is a practical manual to the unique characteristics of gifted and advanced learners. Presented as a concise 32-page, full-color booklet available in sets of 10 print copies or a single eBook copy, this resource: Can be used in teacher workshops and other group professional learning settings. Assists educators in understanding and meeting the academic and social-emotional needs of gifted students. Includes a companion online facilitator's guide. Features practical tips based on current research and best practices. Is packed with illustrations, checklists, space to write notes, and a glossary of terms. School can feel like the wrong fit for many gifted learners, but through learning how to notice and support gifted students' diverse traits and needs, educators can build ideal classroom climates for student success. Readers will understand how to identify giftedness and related traits, including twice-exceptionality, introversion and extroversion, perfectionism, sensitivity, and intuitiveness. The online facilitator's guide includes everything workshop leaders need to conduct a brief course for classroom teachers, coordinators, counselors, or even parents.

Counseling Gifted and Talented Children

Author: Roberta M. Milgram
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313390010
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
There is a gap between the enormous need for counseling services and research about the counseling needs of gifted individuals, on the one hand, and the limited availability of such services and knowledge on the other. This book is designed to give counselors, classroom teachers, gifted education specialists, and parents an understanding of the academic and social-personal needs of gifted and talented students, awareness of ways that they themselves may help these children, and an introduction to the available guidance strategies and materials. This book highlights the role of regular classroom teachers and teachers of the gifted in counseling; provides teachers, counselors, and parents with information about the wide variety of approaches to enrichment and/or acceleration; emphasizes the major role of parents in the development of their gifted children; stresses career education and guidance. Four chapters are devoted to important topics that have received very little attention to date-gifted girls, preschool gifted, disadvantaged gifted, and learning-disabled gifted. Finally, a unique feature of the book is a chapter in which fictional portraits of gifted and creative children are presented and analyzed.

The Survival Guide for Parents of Gifted Kids

Author: Sally Yahnke Walker
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Gifted children
Languages : en
Pages : 156

Book Description
Information for parents on gifted children, their education, and problems.

A Parent's Guide to Gifted Children

Author: James T. Webb
Publisher: Great Potential Press, Inc.
ISBN: 0910707790
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 824

Book Description
Practical guidance in key areas of concern for parents, such as peer relations, siblings, motivation and underachievement, discipline, intensity and stress, depression, education planning, and finding professional help.

Parent's Guide to Raising a Gifted Child

Author: James Alvino
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345410270
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 407

Book Description
LEARN TO MEET THE NEEDS OF YOUR GIFTED CHILD Though academic abilities have always been important in determining whether your child is gifted, talent in the visual or performing arts, leadership qualities, and intellectual curiosity are just as vital. But unless we as parents help nurture those talents, our gifted children can become bored, socially aggressive, or, ironically, underachievers in the classroom. Here is a practical, informative, and authoritative primer for raising and educating our gifted children from pre-school to adolescence. Beginning with sensible strategies to determine whether—and in which areas—your child is gifted, this book takes parents through selecting an appropriate day-care center, a school, and a home reference library. It helps us figure out where our role stops and the school’s role begins, as well as detailing ways to keep our children’s creativity alive and how to cope with sibling rivalry and our own doubts and fears. Also included are a recommended reading list, a special section on the roles of the computer and television in your gifted child’s life, and much more.