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SENG Webinar Event, March 26th – Living with Intensity Series – Part 3

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Title: “Still Gifted After All These Years — Lifespan Intensity and Gifted Adults”
Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Time: 7:30 p.m.-9 p.m. (Eastern)
Presenter: Patricia Gatto Walden, PhD
APA CE: 1

Gifted children become gifted adults experiencing their inner world and surrounding environment in deep and complex ways. Throughout their lives, gifted adults have recognized that intensities, asynchrony, perfectionism, and feelings of dissimilarity from others have affected their relationships, personal life, and career choices.

Incorporating a holistic perspective (focus given to intellectual, emotional, physical, spiritual/ethical and social domains), this SENGinar will identify the multifaceted intrinsic strengths, concerns, and needs of gifted adults. Primary lifelong issues of feeling different and alone, coping with isolation, self-criticism, and relentless perfectionism will be addressed.

After participating in this webinar, you will be able to:

  • Understand how an individual experiences giftedness “from the inside out.”
  • Identify common difficulties and misunderstandings of adult giftedness.
  • Appreciate the lifelong focus on meaning and purpose.
  • Understand the importance of attending to the total self to attain health and well-being.

This SENGinar is the third in a 3-part series based on the book Living with Intensity. To receive APA credit you must read the book, attend the entire webinar, and complete the post-event evaluation. You may purchase the book through Great Potential Press or Amazon.

SENG Webinar Event, March 16th – Bootcamp for Determined Advocates

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Find out What It Takes to Be an Effective Advocate for the Gifted

Date: Saturday, March 16, 2013
Time: 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (Eastern)
Presenter: Wenda Sheard, JD, PhD

Are you determined to advocate for the best education possible for your children? Do you want to learn more about the legal, political, and educational aspects of advocacy? If you do, this SENGinar is for you.

Many times when a child’s educational needs are satisfied, social and emotional problems are alleviated. So come fill your advocacy toolbox with new and creative advocacy ideas from a lawyer, political scientist, teacher, and long-time education advocate.

 

SENG Webinar Event, Feb. 26th – Living with Intensity Series – Part 2

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Understanding Intensity: Practical Applications for Parents, Teachers, and Counselors

Date: February 26, 2013
Time: 4:30 p.m. Pacific [90 mins.]
Presenter: Michele Kane, EdD

Gifted children’s heightened sensitivities and intensities combine to provide qualitatively different interactions both in their inner and outer worlds. The asynchronous gifted children need the guidance of adults to help them develop and foster their social, emotional and spiritual nature. By participating in this webinar you will:

  • Identify strategies for nurturing the inner life.
  • Understand the developmental experiences of gifted youngsters.
  • Provide support for adults who help to guide these children.

This SENGinar is the second in the 3-part Living with Intensity Series based on the book Living with Intensity. To receive APA credit, you must read the book and attend the entire webinar. You may purchase the book through Great Potential Press, Amazon or other book retailers.


ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Michele Kane, EdD, is an associate professor and the coordinator of the Master of Arts in Gifted Education Program at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. As a presenter for state, national, and international conferences, a major focus of her work is related to social, emotional, and spiritual giftedness and the affective aspects of educational programming. She and her husband Dan are parents of six gifted adult children.

Upcoming Gifted Education Webinars

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Are you looking for an easily-accessible and free or reasonably priced way to gather research-based information about gifted learners? These webinars in the coming weeks, many of them presented by widely-recognized experts in the field, are a fabulous option. Additionally, if you can’t watch one “live,” in most cases registration allows you to access it after-the-fact at a later time.

February 12, 7:30 PM Eastern – Addressing the Unique Challenges of Culturally Diverse Gifted Learners Presented by Joy Lawson Davis (University of Louisiana, Lafayette), this webinar, brought to you by SENG (Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted) will focus on issues faced by underrepresented gifted children and solutions teachers can employ to address the needs of exceptional learners from minority populations.

February 12, 7:00 PM Pacific – Meeting the Needs of the Gifted Learner in the Common Core Classroom Via UC-Irvine, this FREE webinar presented by Rhonda Cameron (Orange County Dept. of Ed., CA) will show teachers ways to fully differentiate the Common Core so as to better meet the learning needs of gifted learners (and all learners).

February 13, 7:00 PM Eastern – Adapting the Writing Common Core for Gifted Learners This NAGC webinar, presented by Claire Hughes of the College of Coastal Georgia and Debra Troxclair of Lamar University (TX), covers information for teachers about how the Common Core English Language Arts standards can be adapted and differentiated for advanced learners in the area of writing. Both presenters are among the authors of NAGC’s new book, “Using the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts With Gifted and Advanced Learners.”

February 19, 7:00 PM Pacific – Making GATE Work Without Funding This FREE UC-Irvine webinar presented by Gina Danley (Santa Maria-Bonita Schools, CA) will provide insights and ideas for how schools and districts can maintain and offer gifted programming in times of lean or disappearing budgets.

February 20, 7:00 PM Eastern – Un”Common” Creativity: Infusing Creative Thinking Across The Common Core Susan Dulong Langley returns for this NAGC webinar full of ideas and strategies for infusing creative thinking skills together with the Common Core.

February 21, 7:30 PM Eastern – Grappling with Giftedness: A Lifelong Challenge A SENG webinar, Ellen Fiedler (Northeastern Illinois University) will share insights about possible unresolved affective issues related to their giftedness that may still be impacting gifted adults. Characteristics of gifted adults and their impact on “giftedness across the lifespan” will also be covered.

February 26, 7:00 PM Pacific – Tech Tools to Differentiate and Engage Gifted Learners This final FREE UC-Irvine webinar, presented by Sean Williams (University of La Verne), highlights various Web 2.0 tools that teachers can use to engage and differentiate their gifted and advanced learners.

[A credit option is also available for the UC-Irvine webinars. Contact Lisa Kadowaki in the UC-Irvine Extension Office for more information. Her email is at the bottom of the 5th Annual GATE Webinar Series Flyer.pdf.]

February 26, 7:30 PM Eastern – Understanding Intensity: Practical Applications for Parents, Teachers, and Counselors This SENGinar, presented by Michele Kane (Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago), is designed to provide insights about the heightened sensitivities and intensities of gifted youth and how the adults in their lives can help them understand and develop their social and emotional aspects.

February 27, 7:00 PM Eastern – Implementing the Common Core State Standards with Various Program Models in Gifted Education Another of NAGC’s spring webinars, join up on this night to learn from Alicia Cotabish (University of Central Arkansas) and Bronwyn MacFarlane (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) about the relationships between gifted program models and the Common Core State Standards. Also included will be examples of how to implement the CCSS in mathematics for gifted learners.

March 13, 7:00 PM Eastern – Creativity and Complexity in Math and Science Presented by Cheryll Adams (Ball State University, IN), this NAGC webinar will offer characteristics of students who are gifted in mathematics and science, along with modifications “to provide more creativity, complexity, depth, and abstractness for students gifted in mathematics and science.”

March 26, 7:30 PM Eastern – Still Gifted After All These Years–Lifespan Intensity and Gifted Adults This final spring SENGinar, presented by Patricia Gatto Walden (Institute of Educational Advancement), will cover innate social and emotional traits of giftedness, misunderstandings that parents and teachers often have regarding them, and ways parents and teachers can nurture gifted children’s health and well-being.

[Many SENGinars offer APA credit for psychologists. Visit this page for more information.]

[SENG is also offering free webinars to 30 U.S. schools this spring. Visit this page for information on how to apply.]

March 27, 7:00 PM Eastern – Educating Primary Gifted Students: Analyzing Nonfiction Books with a Focus on Higher-Level Skill Development This NAGC webinar, presented by Kimberley Chandler (College of William & Mary, VA), examines the use of non-fiction text with primary grade learners and provides strategies for how to assist young learners in analyzing, inferring, and summarizing the information in non-fiction. Extensions for research projects, writing activities, and questioning strategies will also be highlighted.

[Site licenses are available for all NAGC WOW webinars. Visit this page for more information.]

SEABURY SCHOOL 2012 SENG Parent Group •PRE-K—GRADE 8•

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We all know raising gifted children is a blessing – but can also be exhausting! This intensive eight-week workshop focuses on supporting the emotional needs of your gifted child while providing tools for parenting.

Beginning Sept. 26th and running through Nov. 14th, this SENG (Supporting Emotional Needs of Gifted) group is led by Callie Stoker-Graham, parent of two gifted children, and Dr. Kelly Brown, Seabury parent and licensed psychologist.

Cost to attend the workshop is only $125 for the whole 8-week session (only $12 per class!) and includes a copy of A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children by James T. Webb (a $25 value); this is an opportunity you won’t want to miss.

Workshops run each Wednesday, Sept. 26 – Nov. 14, from 7:00-8:30 p.m., at Seabury’s middle school campus, 925 Court C, downtown Tacoma.
The workshop will be capped at 15 participants, so reserve your place now!

Seabury School will be sponsoring an “Evening with Jim Webb” on Thursday, October 18th, 7:00pm, at the Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center, Commerce Room, in downtown Tacoma.  Dr. Webb founded SENG and has contributed many books and lectures on gifted education.  Mark your calendars to spend an evening with one of the “gurus” of gifted education and parenting of gifted children.

SENG Concerns for Gifted ADHD Diagnosis: Help Us to Launch Our Public Awareness Effort

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Gifted, ADHD, or Both?

The answer is not always as clear as we might think.

Intellectually gifted children whose needs are neglected or misunderstood may exhibit traits and behaviors that resemble those of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and be wrongly diagnosed, possibly resulting in unnecessary medication and unintended harm. Young gifted children are especially at high-risk for misdiagnosis, in light of the new extended guideline for ADHD diagnosis.

To alert the pediatric healthcare community to the potential for misdiagnosis and the complexity of dual diagnosis, SENG, in coordination with its Professional Advisory Committee, has issued a news release and suggested resources as part of a public awareness effort.

Please help us by distributing the following information to members of your communities:

As part of this effort, SENG is also publishing for free on YouTube its video The Misdiagnosis of Gifted Children, formerly available only by purchase.

SENG Webinar Event December 15, 2011 — Touching the Mystery: Spiritual Dimensions of Giftedness

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Who am I? Where did I come from? What will become of me?

Presented by Joy L. Navan, Ph.D.

These are existential questions asked by many gifted children with deep spiritual concerns. In this SENGinar, Dr. Navan ponders these questions and their impact on our children, and presents several dimensions of spiritual giftedness, including a review of research in the field. Through interactive sharing and case studies of spiritually gifted children, she engages attendees in a discussion of ways that parents and educators can recognize, honor, and respond to spiritual facets of gifted children.

Date: Dec. 15th, 2011

Time: 4:30 PM Pacific

Location: Participate at home or office using your computer.

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SENG Webinar Event October 20th, 2011

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Forging Partnerships with Teachers and Why They Often Don’t Work

Presented by Nancy M. Robinson, Ph.D.

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.

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Date: October 20, 2011

Time: 4:30 PM Pacific

Location: Participate at home or office using your computer.

SENG – Webinar “You Can’t Make Me Do It!”

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One week left to register!

“You Can’t Make Me Do It!”

How to Encourage Motivation from the Inside

Presented by Cheryl Franklin-Rohr

Picture children with 100% engagement, and eager learners– students so eager that they can’t wait to share their excitement in any format expected of them.

For any teacher or parent who has sat in a conference with that reluctant child, frustration is a typical reaction for all parties involved: teacher, parent and student. In a typical classroom, chances are there will be at least one child who is not totally motivated. This presentation will focus on intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation and the different perspectives of the key players (Sullo, 2007).

Factors that both help and hinder achieving the desired state will be discussed as well as practical strategies that can be put into place to encourage a positive change. Applying information on brain research (Jensen, 1998) as well as Carol Dweck’s recent book, Mindset, will give insight into how intrinsic motivation can be developed with learners.

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Date:
March 24, 2011

Time:
7:30 PM Eastern
6:30 PM Central
5:30 PM Mountain
4:30 PM Pacific

Location:
Participate at home or office using your computer.

About Cheryl Franklin-Rohr

Cheryl Franklin-Rohr is the Gifted and Talented Coordinator for Adams 14 School District and is on the Twice-Exceptional Cadre for the state of Colorado. She received her Masters in Gifted and Talented from the University of Northern Colorado in 1986, received her GT Endorsement in 2006 and has just recently completed a Special Education Administrative Licensure from UNC. She has also published an article for Understanding Our Gifted and was a co-writer for a chapter in Differentiation in Practice Grades 9-12.

About SENG Webinars:

For more information, contact jennifer.rajotte@sengifted.org.

This webinar is provided by SENG, www.SENGifted.org.

SENG is committed to sharing complex issues relating to the social and emotional needs of giftedness. Webinars reflect the opinions of their speakers and do not necessarily represent the philosophy of SENG. SENG invites your comments and discussion about this webinar following the session.