Forging Partnerships with Teachers and Why They Often Don’t Work
Presented by Nancy M. Robinson, Ph.D.
(As seen at the SENG Summit in Seattle)
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.
About Nancy M. Robinson, Ph.D.
Nancy M. Robinson (Stanford Ph.D. 1958, Developmental and Clinical Psychology) is Professor Emerita of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington and former Director of what is now known as the Halbert and Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars, established in 1975 by her late husband. The Center is best known for its two pioneering programs of early entrance to college but offers summer and other opportunities as well. Engaged previously in a 30-year career in mental retardation, her research interests since 1981 have focused on effects of marked academic acceleration to college, adjustment issues of gifted children, intellectual assessment, and verbal and mathematical precocity in very young children. She has consulted for more than 25 years with the U.S. State Department’s Office of Overseas Schools. She received the 1998 National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) Distinguished Scholar Award, the 2007 NAGC Ann Isaacs Founders Memorial Award, and the 2011 SENG Leadership Award, in recognition of exceptional leadership in promoting the soical and emotional needs of the gifted.
Date: October 20, 2011
Time: 4:30 PM Pacific
Location: Participate at home or office using your computer.
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Cost: $40.00
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