Includes books and websites with resources for gifted education.
“I didn’t grow up gifted, at least not by name. I grew up being asked what was wrong with me.”
Joseph Hughes, age 19
Click here to read this article from the SENG: Through His Eyes and Through His Mother’s Eyes
Children deserve to have the adults who care for them—parents and teachers—working as partners. This is especially true for gifted students, for whom the usual guidelines may need tweaking if they are to be enabled to grow at their own pace. All too often, that crucial partnership doesn’t happen. This talk will explore some of the understandable reasons that parents and teachers may feel, at times, that they are caring for two very different kids, and discuss ways the adults can take the initiative to repair that situation.
In the summer of 2011, the Washington Coalition for Gifted Education and local advocates were instrumental in advocating for a number of legislative changes related to gifted education. This article contains answers to a number of questions presented by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.
Here is a link to the interview with Barbara Poyneer.
BOOKS: 1.) Living With Intensity: Understanding the Sensitivity, Excitability, and the Emotional Development of Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Adults by Susan Daniels and Michael M. Piechowski 2.) Some of My […]
I’m excited to be heading to Seattle this week to give a presentation to the Seattle Public Schools titled “Intensity Through the Ages—Celebrating Our Children’s Passion, Creativity, and Excitability” (it’s free and no registration is required, so if you live in the area, please consider stopping by!). The title, however, is just the beginning. Parents and teachers often attend talks such as this one to understand their children better, and they come away knowing that there is much to understand and celebrate about themselves, as well.
What are your social-emotional needs? Intellectual needs? Creative needs? Physical needs? Twice-exceptional needs? Not your children’s. Yours.
Are you meeting them?
If the very question makes you squirm with discomfort (Sure, my kids are gifted, but me??), spend some time with the following resources, then comment here on your own experience with living as an intense adult and learning to celebrate your own passion, creativity, and excitability.