Guiding Gifted Students With Engaging Books supports teachers and counselors in facilitating book discussions designed to guide bright young people to self-understanding through high-quality literature. This exciting resource: Covers social-emotional issues in the lives of gifted students. Features examples of lessons and menus of discussion questions for successful book discussions alongside enrichment activities to extend students' learning. Includes an annotated bibliography of children's and young adult books ideal for social-emotional learning. Engaging lessons and activities support learners as they process their feelings regarding issues highlighted in the selected books and class discussion. The book examines this approach with whole classrooms as well as with small groups of students, and features considerations for special populations of gifted students, including gifted underachievers, twice-exceptional students, and culturally diverse students, including twice-exceptional students, culturally diverse students, and children and teens facing serious adversity in their lives.
Translated from the German by Edite Kroll. Puffin, 1987. A series of vignettes tells the story of the friendship between the narrator, a Christian boy, and Friedrich, a Jewish boy, in Germany from 1925 to 1942.
This book has become a classic in the fields of gifted education and gifted psychology. For years, parents have referred to it as "the Dr. Spock book for parents of...
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These are difficult tasks to do alone, no matter how smart one may be. The 70 guided discussions in this book are an affective curriculum for gifted teens.
Grades 5–8
The book is split into three modules, which correspond to three main skill areas: Self-awareness and self-management Social awareness and relationship skills Responsible decision-making and problem-solving Each module features ten hands-on, ...
Delisle, J. R. (1986). Gifted kids speak out: Hundreds of kids 6-13 talk about school, friends, their families, and the future. Minneapolis: Free Spirit Publishing. ... Giftedness and Disabilities Baum, S. M., Owen, S. V., Appendix 239.
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.
This book, now fully revised with updated information and new survey quotes, offers practical suggestions for addressing the social and emotional needs of gifted students.
Powerful and practical, this book will support you as you change your classroom for the better while helping you to understand how to overcome current classroom cultures where some children learn and many learn to hate reading.” ...