Beautiful Feet Books is a publisher of Rea Berg's History Through Literature, study guides, and a variety of children's literature.
Students shopping for colleges have long relied on The Princeton Review's publications. The Best 351 Colleges (up from 345 last year!) provides two-page spreads on each school and rates them in terms of campus life, academics, selectivity, and financial facts, with tips on getting in. It also includes frank and revealing quotes from students attending these institutions. There is an entertaining "Schools Ranked by Category" section, with such headings as "Dorms Like Dungeons, " "Party Schools," and "Students Most Nostalgic for Bill Clinton."
This guide by Will Glennon and Jeanne Elium, suggests tools for raising emotionally healthy boys in a culture that preaches stoicism for men. Some of the suggestions revolve around attitudes adults should cultivate in dealing with boys. The book also describes practical things adults can do to enhance boys' mental and emotional health.
A parent-to-parent book, A Case of Brilliance is the author's personal story of how she and her husband discovered their children are profoundly gifted.
Michael Gurian the author of "The Wonder of Boys" addresses the challenges of male adolescence. Gurian explores the biological and emotional landscape of male adolescence from cross disciplinary perspectives--culling research from medical science, psychology, anthropology and his own personal observation.
This book by author A.G. Klein, is about Leta Stetter Hollingworth, the mother of gifted education. Hollingworth has been forgotten, even though her words of 100 years ago are still as relevant today as they were back then. Born in 1886 in rural Nebraska, Leta Hollingworth rose above an abusive childhood and strong prejudice to become an influential psychologist, feminist, educator, author, and advocate for gifted children.
Dr. Carol Strip Whitney presents concepts and techniques to counteract many de-motivating factors gifted children are susceptible to. These factors can lead to depression and academic underachievement. Whitney, along with help from Gretchen Hirsch, offers helpful advice to help spark the motivation in your gifted child or student.
This book is part of The Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education and Karen B. Rogers, a leader in the field of gifted education, provides teachers with practical advice for choosing a grouping option that best fits their students and information on how to assess their grouping choices.
"This book is destined to become the classic guide for parents of gifted children. The key topics covered are essential ones, and this book provides much wisdom and new information." - Jan Davidson, Ph.D., Davidson Institute for Talent Development. Four experts (Webb, Gore, Amend, DeVries) in the field of gifted and talented provide practical guidance in the areas of: sibling & discipline issues, educational planning, gifted children characteristics and more.
What is the right way to handle discipline with young children? With humor and insight Dr. Grace Mitchell uses actual situations to demonstrate her gentle and tested method for disciplining young children.
In this revised edition to 1997's Empowering Gifted Minds: Educational Advocacy That Works, award-winning author Barbara Gilman walks parents and teachers through the process of documenting a child's abilities to providing reasonable educational options year by year. Learn about the problems and solutions for gifted students: Underachievement, Curriculum and Instruction, The Experience of Giftedness, and more.
"The focus on academics, characteristics of good competitions, and useful tips on selecting the right competitions make it unique and valuable. In addition to listing available competitions, this book will help parents and teachers minimize problems and maximize benefits of academic competitions for gifted learners." ~Jan Fall, GATE Coordinator Rochester Public Schools
Acadamic Precocity contains the first follow-up studies of more than 2,000 gifted seventh- and eighth-graders who are participating in the Johns Hopkins Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY). The contributors to the program assess the effectiveness of its screening and educational techniques, explore the relationship between precocity and social adjustment, and report on the success of SMPY-type programs in other locales.
"A well-written, extremely useful guide for parents and educators who wish to provide gifted students an opportunity to learn at a pace and level appropriate to their abilities. Offers valuable insight on the social and emotional aspects of effective acceleration." ~Jan Davidson, President and Cofounder, Davidson Institute for Talent Development
The story of homeschooled profoundly gifted child, Michael, who attended kindergarten at age 3 and graduated from high school in only one year at the age of six. He graduated from college at 10; holds four Guinness World Records; and, graduated with a Master's Degree in Chemistry at 14.
According to the publisher, this book offers inspiring and often funny stories of 50 mistakes and misunderstandings that helped bring about life as we know it from Wheaties to telephones and microwave ovens to yo-yos. With hilarious cartoons and wacky facts, this fascinating compendium illustrates the adage "If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them."
This book written by Tom Jackson, contains a variety of activities that are great supplements to units for social isssues. Additionally, this author offers specific guidelines and ideas to help kids learn practical ways to make decisions, solve problems and think about life issues.
Admission Matters takes the unique approach of simultaneously and engagingly addressing students and parents as it guides them through the complexities of selective college admissions.
A review of standards developed by the National Association of Gifted Children. Each chapter describes guiding principles (and supporting material) that correspond to standards for the minimum requirements for satisfactory programs.
"You'll find everything you forgot from school--as well as plenty you never even learned--in this all-purpose reference book. The updated version takes a whirlwind tour through 12 different disciplines, from American studies to philosophy to world history. The authors provide a plethora of useful information, from the plot of Othello to the difference between fission and fusion. It's not a shortcut to cultural literacy, but it's an excellent "way in" to the building blocks of Western civilization: the "books, music, art, philosophy, and discoveries that have managed to endure." Think of it as finishing school for your brain; study up and you'll gain a lifetime's worth of cocktail conversation--as well as a new list of books you simply must read." (Source: Amazon.com)
Miles Corwin's book is a narrative account of twelve gifted students who live and learn in distressed neighborhoods and the AP teachers who have helped them. This book can enlighten readers about the gifted and emphasizes that gifted children are not a socio-culturally homogeneous population.
This book documents the home education of a musically talented, highly intellectually gifted child, from the perspective of her father. An interesting, detailed account of the child's musical development within the context of the total educational program is included.
This is a helpful, practical guide to college admissions for homeschoolers, especially those who may not have had a "typical" program or sequence of study (including unschoolers or early college entrants). Cohen describes and provides examples of how to translate interdisciplinary homeschooling curriculum and apprenticeship experiences into a high school transcript, and de-mystifies the college admissions process. Highly recommended, especially as a guide to developing a transcript for students whose homeschooling programs have included non-traditional educational experiences.
This book contains articles, essays, and addresses spanning Dr. Roeper's life and work. The articles encompass education, psychology, and Dr. Roeper's philosophy of global awareness, all of which she believes are closely interconnected.
In this sequel to "Driven to Distraction," Edward Hallowell and John Ratay provide practical solutions to the struggles of people with ADD. Each chapter is devoted to one aspect of the disorder: ADD in women, ADD and aggression, ADD and addiction and more.
This book throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society.
American students' dwindling aptitude in math and science have become newsworthy lately, often culminating in debates about test scores. The author reiterates the concern that American youth is not being prepared for an emerging, competitive international market. But his review of studies, programs, and other data reveal a disturbing new correlation between educational access and power. He argues that the poor, minority students, and young women are not encouraged in math studies, thus widening the gap between the under and over classes. His recommendations for curriculum reform, workshops, and community involvement challenge superficial political arguments with potentially valuable solutions.
This guide supplies the modern reader with background information on topics which Shakespeare assumed were familiar to Elizabethan audiences. Shakepeare provided "horseplay and slapstick comedy for the less educated in his audiences, while providing a wealth of allusion for the more educated." He assumed the educated members of his audiences were thoroughly grounded in Greek & Roman mythology and history; that they were knowledgeable about England's history and the geography of 16th century Europe. Dr Asimov does not intend this to be a literary evaluation, but provides the historical, legendary and mythological background of play. Shakespeare's works take on new dimensions which lend to greater enjoyment.
This highly popular text helps students bridge the gap between simple memorization/blind acceptance of information and the greater challenge of critical analysis and synthesis. It teaches them to react rationally to alternative points of view and helps them develop a solid foundation for making personal choices about what to accept and what to reject as they read and listen.
This book uncovers the puzzling behaviour by children and youths with Asperger Syndrome (AS) that have a sensory base and, therefore, are often difficult to pinpoint and interpret. The book reviews formal and informal assessment tools, offers interventions for parents and educators, and covers the impact of the sensory system on behavior.
This book, by Richard L. Simpson and Brenda Smith Myles, details the characteristics of Asperger’s Syndrome and its effect on those living with the disease. The book focuses on the diversified needs of children with Asperger’s Syndrome and includes stories and strategies from real families of several individuals who have Asperger's.
This book is a guide for teachers and anyone else working with children with Asperger’s Syndrome. Authors Val Cumine, Julia Leach, Gill Stevenson and Burnley Stevenson offer a comprehensive guide that outlines the characteristics of this disease and the effect it has on a child’s education. This book offers strategies for classroom intervention and behavioral challenges that children with Asperger’s Syndrome may present.
This book, by Tony Attwood, serves as a guide on the many aspects of Asperger’s Syndrome, including the unusual characteristics of the syndrome and strategies to reduce those that are the most debilitating. By including case studies from his own practical experience, Attwood offers many examples and quotations from people with Asperger's syndrome.
Assessment is at the center of all good teaching, and this book is designed to provide a clear, comprehensive guide to the assessment of students with mild disabilities. This book will give you both an understanding of the assessment process and the concrete, practical skills necessary to assess special students successfully so that you can teach them well.
The standard for all assessment personnel, this book continues its tradition of evenhanded coverage of formal and informal assessment for the purpose of making educational decisions about students.
Uta Frith, the editor of this book, explains on page 1, "Asperger's pioneering paper published in 1944 is part of the classic literature of child psychiatry, and a landmark in the development of the concept of autism...This volume makes a start in answering some of the questions that are now being asked. It contains a translation of Asperger's 1944 paper, and in addition, presents reviews of current concepts of autism."
Every child is a genius to his or her parents, but not every parent has the knowledge or confidence to develop their child's creative, intellectual potential to its fullest extent. Awaken the Genius in Your Child, by Shakuntala Devi, will help to create a constructive, fun and supportive learning environment for children, from babyhood through school. It offers practical, manageable advice and accessible, step-by-step methods designed to bring out natural abilities.
This book describes how the popular culture, classroom and home environments can shut down the genius of children. Armstrong urges readers to look beyond traditional understandings of what constitutes genius and describes 12 such qualities: curiosity, playfulness, imagination, creativity, wonder, wisdom, inventiveness, vitality, sensitivity, flexibility, humor, and joy.
Barbara, the daughter of two authors, was a writing prodigy who was always homeschooled. This book chronicles her literary development as a child and adolescent, as well as her mysterious disappearance in young adulthood.
This book is a volume of the most popular writings from the past two decades of esteemed gifted education researcher Dr. James R. Delisle. The book contains more than 50 articles and essays from such publications as Education Week, Parenting for High Potential, Understanding Our Gifted and more.
"After 25 years this classic bestseller is still the resource for anyone looking to earn a degree in a nontraditional way. Since the last edition of BEARS’ GUIDE, the Internet has spawned hundreds of new distance-learning programs, both legitimate and phony. The 15th edition lists them all, expanding its coverage to more than 3,000 schools, and including an improved subject index that makes it even easier to identify which schools offer programs in desired fields. And for the first time, the Bears include an acceptability rating for every school’s degree, based on their extensive survey of college registrars and admissions officers."
Writers Dona J. Matthews and Joanne F. Foster advises the reader on how to answer the tricky questions, support gifted kids in today's "common" world, and what to tell the kids along the way. This book also examines different ways of supporting optimal development in those who have been labeled "gifted," and those who have not.
Beyond Apperance, written by Norine Johnson, Michael Robrts and Judith Worrell, takes a scientific approach to research the culture of teenage girls. The book discusses gender roles, body image, family/peer relationships, sexual decision making, and experiences that impact and shape teenage girls and society.
Beyond Apperance, written by Norine Johnson, Michael Robrts and Judith Worrell, takes a scientific approach to research the culture of teenage girls. The book discusses gender roles, body image, family/peer relationships, sexual decision making, and experiences that impact and shape teenage girls and society.
An expert on ADD, Stephen Garber provides a guide for coping with this disorder by helping to answer the questions: Do I have a correct diagnosis of ADHD? What kind of medication might be helpful? What else can and should I do to help myself or my child deal with this problem? In addition, this book includes a complete checklist of ADHD symptoms, charts, work sheets and a comprehensive list of valuable resources and support groups.
In this book by Susan Keller-Mathers and Kristin Puccio, children in the primary grades can learn and apply a wide variety of powerful thinking tools for generating options for focusing their thinking. Creative problem solving tools include brainstorming, braindrawing, forced relationships, and the evaluation matrix.
This book reviews the fundamentals of biology on a high school and college-101 level. It summarizes latest concepts and research in modern biology. Topics covered include the cell, bacteria and viruses, fungi, plants, invertebrates, chordates, Homo Sapiens, heredity, genetics and biotechnology, evolution, ecology, and much more. Questions and answers for review and self-testing are included.
This innovative text helps students make the connections among the fields of biology, the interdisciplinary nature of today's biology, and the intimate connections between biological and social issues. Biology Today: An Issues Approach instills in students the feeling that biology is both interesting and relevant to their lives, and that a further understanding of biology can be rewarding rather than burdensome. Additionally, the text builds an excellent foundation for upper-level courses by teaching all the basics necessary for understanding advanced material while fostering the understanding of biology as a process of discovery.
In this collection of essays and interviews journalist Dick Russell examines the role of African Americans through two centuries of American history. He focuses primarily on the role of blacks in the cultural life of the United States. Black Genius and the American Experience, with an introduction by Alvin F. Poussaint, takes a thoughtful and fascinating look at the contributions to U.S. history made by Americans of African decent.
Clinical psychologist Michael D. Whitley presents a proven ten-step program to motivate underachieving children. For any parent who has ever been told, "your child isn't performing up to his or her potential," this book has the answer.
This is a comprehensive resource guide from Jacquelyn Saunders for parents of young gifted children. It contains information on identification, early enrichment activities, school placement issues, and parenting strategies.
Ken Rigby addresses the fact that bullying abuse will affect 20% of school children and offers strategies to identify both bullies and victims.
Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs, one of America's foremost child psychiatrists, presents an easy to follow program that teaches parents how to cope with the common childhood problems that occur from toddler through preteen years. This book gives the key to parents who seek to build trust and love in their families, and raise happier, healthier, and better behaved children.
There have always been "in-crowds" and outsiders among adolescents, but today the social castes of the American high school are proving to be more incendiary, destructive, and even life-threatening to students than ever before. From playgrounds to high school parking lots, kids of all ages need more help than ever in navigating the cruel pressures that can be inflicted by these groups.
This book is a must-have for any gifted or advanced learner planning to attend college. Sandra Berger, a nationally recognized expert on college and career planning for gifted students, provides a hands-on, practical guide to college planning in this revised edition. Berger leads students through the college planning process, moving from self-exploration, to college matching, to the application process. The author also provides useful, practical advice for writing college application essays, requesting recommendation letters, visiting colleges and acing the college entrance interview.
In an era when college rankings and name-brand recognition seem to drive the search process, many students, parents and counselors may be left questioning the options for a good college match.
Roger Schank offers a philosophy of learning with an emphasis on harnessing the child's natural inquisitiveness and generating in a child a passion for learning and creating. Dr. Schank also offers clear, practical advice on how parents can help their children to learn in hundreds of different ways, and how parents can help their children to get the most out of their school experiences.
The Princeton Review's 2004 edition of the Complete Book of Colleges profiles 1,669 colleges and universities and shows students what they need for a successful college search. The book includes facts and figures on students and faculty, academics, facilities, extracurriculars, admissions, costs and financial aid. The "Admission Wizard" section helps readers identify schools that fit certain criteria: selectivity, region, cost, size, and environment. There is also a section of extended listings from several hundred colleges (who have paid for the privilege), supplying additional details on their academic programs, student bodies, campus life, and more.
How can educators help a gifted student to excel? The quality and character of a school's curriculum is a vital ingredient to the eventual realization of a child's capacity. This book explains in detail how to organize a thoughtful curriculum to capture the interest and energy of our ablest young thinkers.
In Computers As Tutors: Solving The Crisis In Education, Frederick Bennett lays out the difficulties present in contemporary American education and reveals why the millions of newly added computers in schools have been largely ineffectual. Bennett describes how computers, if used differently, will enable every student without exception to succeed in school. The key is individualized instruction. A private tutor in the form of a computer will allow each pupil to learn at his or her own comfort rate.
This book from Leonora Cohen and Dr. Frydenberg is the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide for gifted kids, their parents and teachers. There are seperate sections designed specifically for students, parents and teachers. Cohen helps define capable kids and shows how to develop coping strategies.
This book from Roberta Milgram 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.
This book by Linda Kreger Silverman is an aid for any person related to or working with a gifted child. Ms. Silverman provides specific strategies for individual and group counseling in meeting the unique social and emotional needs of these individuals.
Covering such personalities as Aretha Franklin, Pablo Picasso and Frank Lloyd Wright, authors Goertzel and Hansen remember their incredible contributions to our world. We wonder whether today's world will nurture and support the emergence of great potential to the same extent as previous decades. Provactive reading!
This book is a comprehensive guide to homeschooling. It includes features on reasons to homeschool, record keeping, curriculum resources, how to get started, college preparation, social and emotional issues, and much more. It also includes a chapter on homeschooling your twice exceptional child.
This book is the definitive reference book for those searching for a summary and evaluation of the literature on giftedness and gifted education with summaries of important topics in the field, providing relevant research and a guide to how the research applies to gifted education. Sample topics addressed include alternative assessment, counseling, early childhood, highly gifted students, homeschooling, parenting, and policy and advocacy.
This book serves as a great primer for a mostly unheard of, frequently misunderstood learning condition. Many consider these bright, academically underachieving kids a conundrum. Many are labeled unmotivated, lazy, or troublemakers. The children are bored, confused, or unable to organize themselves enough to succeed in today's classrooms.
Another in the Prufrock Press' Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education, this book by Sally M. Reis and Joseph S. Renzulli, focuses on differentiation strategy that incorporates content, process, products, classroom management and the teacher's personal commitment to accomodating individual and small-group differences.
This handbook is a practical guide for starting your own gifted program. The author gives tips on Designing and implementing curriculum for pre-K through middle school, identifying and selecting the best teachers, creating the vital support networks among parents, school, and community, assessing the program’s impact on children, parents, and teachers and developing special programming for the disadvantaged gifted students.
Each chapter of this guide by Jeanne Purcell, features the research of leaders in the field of giftedness. From identification to advocacy find stategic plans and resources for designing a program.
Topics covered in this guide by Stan Bailey, Dan Riley and
Bruce Allen Knight, include "Disadvantage and Giftedness - Developing a School Policy", "Identification of Talent Scales for Rating/Identifying Characteristics of Gifted and Talented Students" and "Possibilities for Provision- Acceleration." These are just some of the issues explored by educators as they attempt to nurture individual differences and encourage talents.
This book offers a focused look at educating gifted and talented students for success in math. More than just a guidebook for educators and parents, this book offers a comprehensive approach to mathematics education for gifted students of elementary or middle school age.
Comprises 34 contributions that, collectively, explore the possibilities for the recognition and nurturing of mathematically gifted students in grades K-12. Specific topics include the use of awards programs, the cultural challenge facing gifted girls, what teachers can learn from students' reasoning, international perspectives, the definition of talent, curricular strategies, and connecting parents to the schools.
This is one of the books in Prufrock Press' popular Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education and offers practical strategies for starting and developing a mentoring program. From structuring a program, selecting a mentor, and monitoring progress, to ensuring success, editors Karnes and Stephens, provide an excellent introduction to the topic.
Eddie Braggett discusses how teachers can overcome opposition to the provision of programs for gifted students in schools and the foundations for appropriate gifted programs.
Presented in an easy to read format, this book by Temple Grandin and Kate Duffy focuses on using one's strengths, natural talents, and special interests to gain employment and lead successful lives.
Kenneth Lane outlines 103 activities that are designed to help give a child the necessary perceptual motor-skills needed to succeed in school. Categories covered are motor, visual motor, ocular motor, vision, laterality, directionality, sequential processing and simultaneous processing.
In this guide, Diane Heacox presents a menu of strategies for any teacher faced with a spectrum of student needs and styles. Some are quick and easy--differentiating discussions, creating tiered assignments. Others are more comprehensive--matrix plans for designing curriculum units, "one-sentence lesson plans" that encompass content, process skills, and evidence of learning.
Starr Cline and Diane Schwartz focus on how teachers can help their students reach their full potential. The authors discuss reasons for the failure to integrate gifted education into the fabric of the school and the relationships between multiple intelligences philosophy and the curriculum.
A visual chronology of world history, spanning more than 20,000 years-from the first humans to the dawn of the new millenium.
"This book offers a highly revealing-and troubling-view of today's high school students and the ways they pursue high grades and success. Denise Pope, veteran teacher and curriculum expert, follows five motivated and successful students through a school year, closely shadowing them and engaging them in lengthy reflections on their school experiences."
These carefully researched books have wonderfully detailed drawings of figures in historical costumes,authentic reproductions of actual period art, or carefully rendered images of plants and animals. Most include notes or stories intertwined with the pictures, and the written information is a nice complement to the drawings. Some of the titles available include: A Soldier's Life in the Civil War, Adventures of Hercules, The Middle Ages, and Mimicry and Camouflage in Nature. There are many, many others.
Written by a psychologist, this book offers advice for parents struggling to raise children who are clearly bright but who are also maddeningly unfocused. The author calls such children "Edison-trait" who exhibit divergent thinking, focusing on many ideas simultaneously.
As two successful medical professionals with ADD, authors Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey help dispel a vairety of myths about the disorder - i.e. "ADD is an issue only for children." The book goes on to cite stories and case studies of many who have dealt successfully with their diagnosis.
Dysgraphia is a term applied to the symptom of writing difficulty. It is estimated that there is at least one student with dysgraphia in every classroom in the United States. Unfortunately, many of these students are misdiagnosed, or, simply overlooked. In a society in which reading and writing skills are necessities, this is devastating for thousands of youngsters and their families.
This book is a thoroughly researched and documented "biography" of the equation E=mc^2, written for the lay person with an interest in science. It starts with the history of each term of the equation and the equation's "ancestors".
This book by author Robert Hydrisko is the nation's first guidebook for pre-college and enrichment programs for high school students. Find out where and why over 30,000 high school students attend early college programs every year. A must-read for parents, counselors, librarians, teachers, and students.
This book by Michelle Muratori, identifies important issues that need to be discussed and choices that need to be made before and after one enters college. Muratori explores factors affecting academic, social, and emotional adjustment to college.
This book offers sound advice and guidance for parents of gifted and talented children of preschool and elementary school age. Authors Olszewski-Kubilius, Limburg-Weber and Pfeiffer, detail how parents can create a home environment that both elicits and develops their child's special abilities through activities, games, and play.
This book presents the findings from the first systematic study of "eccentrics": highly talented and unusual people who don't feel the need to conform to the norms of society. The conclusion reached is that these people tend to be happier, healthier and more creative than the "conformists".
Susan Rakow, Ph.D., focuses on helping teachers, administrators, and parents to understand gifted middle school students, implement effective program models, define the role of the gifted teacher, and more. This book provides specific guidelines for program and curricular planning.
Oppositional and defiant children present a major challenge for teachers and other educators. These students must feel they are emotionally and physically safe in the classroom. The authors show how educators can help students move from despair to hope, from anger to comfort, and from failure to success.
Find strategies for handling various learning difficulties and get a more complete understanding of why your child acts the way he/she does. This book presents a way of thinking about many of the common forms of learning disorders, their recognition, their implications, and their treatment. Specifically, chapters 2-7 describe the areas in which neurodevelopmental dysfunction may hinder learning and performance in school. There are also sections on "demystification," which provides a process that adults can use when talking to their children about the nature of their learning disorders as well as their strengths.
The Educational Opportunity Guide is a comprehensive directory of educational programs designed to inform students, parents, and educators about the numerous educational opportunities available for gifted students. The guide includes detailed information on over 380 programs located throughout the nation and abroad. The guide is revised yearly to ensure the information is accurate.
This book review of Educational Psychology: A Century of Contributions, critiques the writer’s style and criteria. The book looks at the historic contributions of 16 leading psychologists, as well as others, who influenced the field of educational psychology. Each part of the book is divided into three sections: the founding period (1880s to 1920); the rise to romance period (1920 to1960); and the modern period (1960 to the present).
The authors join together to prove that training preschoolers with flash cards and attempting to hurry intellectual development doesn't pay off. In fact, the authors claim, kids who are pressured early on to join the academic rat race don't fair any better than children who are allowed to take their time. Alarmed by the current trend toward creating baby Einsteins, the authors urge parents to step back and practice the "Three R's: Reflect, Resist, and Recenter." Instead of pushing preschoolers into academically oriented programs that focus on early achievement, they suggest that children learn best through simple playtime, which enhances problem solving skills, attention span, social development and creativity.
This book is about several electronic components, their functions and how to use them. This book includes information on resistors, capacitors, gates, transistors, switches, and more. There are formulas, codes, and schematics explaining the subject.
Peter A. Spevak and Maryann Karinch provide techniques on constructively engaging and empowering your child by giving him/her choices instead of ultimatums. The theory behind the techniques: understanding the underachiever’s behavior on an emotional level.
Michael J. Bosse and Jennifer V. Rotigela authored this comprehensive, helpful guide to supporting a child's mathematical talent. The authors guide parents in recognizing advanced math ability in their children, working with the school system and tips for connecting a child's math ability to his or her everyday interests.
Michael Matthews provides parents with advice for recognizing early science ability in children and enriching a child's science ability outside of school. However, this advice can be used to help science ability flourish at home and in the classroom. Matthews also includes a special section devoted to science fairs that takes parents through the process of helping their children create award-winning science projects.
This book gives advice and parenting strategies for helping students handle homework in a productive and positive manner.
This is a simple, multi-sensory teaching system for the etymologies of the English language, focusing on Greek and Latin roots. Much of the program uses colored, bordered cards, which may either be made by the student or teacher, or purchased separately for use with the program. All teaching tips are included for instruction in 63 Latin root words and 37 Greek root words. The word roots can be mixed and matched to make new words.
This excellent guidebook offers an innovative, field-tested approach to programming for gifted children. The "Levels of Service" approach to programming is a research-supported, common-sense technique to gifted education program development. The authors, leaders in the field for more than two decades, offer a straightforward method of organizing student experiences. This how-to manual for building an effective gifted program offers a four-level approach to gifted education services. Each level is thoroughly discussed, specific services are suggested, real-world examples are provided, and additional areas of development are discussed. Also, this book provides strategies for planning, implementation, and evaluation.
Written in laymen's terms, this book by Carol Addison Takacs offers sound advice on how to let your child discover his/her talents and learning capacity without forcing them at an unnatural pace. Giving them creative outlets ("fun-time") while they learn can lead to more balanced brain development.
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Myla Kabat-Zinn approach parenting from the Zen Buddhist position of moment-to-moment awareness and provides a new way of facing the challenges of parenthood. One discussion shows how a lack of awareness fosters patterns that damage both parent and child, and how mindfulness can bring healing and transformation to this essential relationship.
This book was conceived to delineate the many facets of gifted individuals and their learning patterns, so that they may be enabled to reach their greatest potential. The authors intend this book to serve as a basic resource for those who view gifted education as a set of rigorous intellectual experiences for youth who exhibit aptitude and interest in matters of the mind.
This book provides an account of the development of 15 children with IQs exceeding 160. Gross examines indepth the children's developmental and educational history, and common characteristics. As well, it identifies educational strategies and adaptations for exceptionally gifted students. This book is must read for anyone raising, teaching, counseling, or assessing highly and profoundly gifted children.
Norbert Weiner's out of print partial autobiography of his childhood, youth and education. Includes long discussions and reflections on what it is like to be a child prodigy; radical acceleration; parenting styles; family relationships; publicity; and the social development of child prodigies.
In the pages of this fine collective biography, readers meet more than 50 children and adolescents who made a mark on the world while very young. Historically, figures such as Genghis Khan, Joan of Arc, John Stuart Mill, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are profiled. Chronologically, the panorama of youthful heroes moves forward to examine the accomplishments of Rachel Carson, Pele, and Maria Tallchief. More recent people such as Tiger Woods, Midori, Nawrose Nur, and Ryan White are also profiled. Coverage is brief but informative and lively.
This is a first-rate reference resource that is difficult to put down. Readers may read about how S. E. Hinton came to write The Outsiders and get hooked on learning about how Wayne Gretzky began playing hockey at age 3.
How can parents help their children with math at home? With more than 300 pages of lively activities, the classic FAMILY MATH book represents one of the greatest strides taken to involve parents in the mathematics education of their children. Using easy instructions and simple objects such as beans, blocks, pennies, buttons, and string, parents and kids solve problems together.
This book discusses how a public high school English teacher homeschooled his own children. It touches on the primarily child-led curriculum he used, the reluctance of his peers to accept his choice to homeschool, and the common question of socialization. He makes a strong argument about why homeschooling makes sense through research as well as example.
This comprehensive guide from Vincent Kiernan, provides students, teachers, and educators with a road map to the rapidly expanding field of online high schools. Math, Science, History, English and even physical education - name the course, and this book will help you find it online
This book is filled with writing from different authors' childhoods. "Each of the forty-two chapters in First Words includes a brief introduction to the author, the juvenilia with commentary by writer and editor linking the childhood and adult work, photographs of the author (then and now) and, in some cases, facsimile reproductions of the original manuscripts and drawings." It includes John Updike, Amy Tan, and Michael Crichton.
The authors present an exceptionally useful overview for the college bound. Parents will be interested (one chapter is addressed especially to them), but the authors write directly to students. Information on everything from interviews to standardized tests, college essays, and financing is included, along with a "road map" of institutions, organized into such categories as "Small College Bargains," "Most Innovative Curriculums," and "Colleges for Students with Learning Disabilities." Tthere is a selective roundup of listings by subject specialty--engineering, architecture, business, etc. Further resources, including Web sites, appear in a separate chapter.
This book summarizes, for a general audience, decades of research on the positive aspects of human experience - joy, creativity, the process of total involvement with life called 'flow'. The author reveals how this pleasurable state can, in fact, be controlled, and not just left to chance, by setting challenges for ourselves. This book is the ideal introduction to this remarkable subject and a book that can lead its readers to discover the true richness of everyday life.
This book includes short stories and discussions which introduce math concepts such as decimals, tangrams, number lines, and fractals.
This book features descriptions of daily life in the homeschools of a number of African American and biracial families. Several of the vignettes include homeschools with extremely gifted children. The volume provides an excellent perspective on what it's really like to homeschool, day in and day out, with bright, curious children.
This book by author A. McKee is about turning your homeschooled experiences into college and job portfolios. As parents who homeschooled and, more importantly, unschooled their children since birth, McKee had often pondered how she would go about writing a college portfolio if her children chose to attend college. This book outlines, by using a question and answer format, the procedures her family devised to write two successful college portfolios. Topics she covers are (1) how to get started (2) documenting the learning process (3) compiling data for a portfolio (4) putting a final document together to create a college admissions portfolio or job resume.
In this book, you'll find a wealth of ideas, curriculum resources, and teaching techniques that promote multiple intelligences, critical thinking, creative problem solving, and problem-and product-based learning. Flack shows you how to use fairy tales with a variety of effective teaching strategies and engaging activities, such as making books, writing and editing newspapers, and creating a classroom museum. Versatile and easy to implement, these strategies can be used in a variety of settings.
This book traces the recurrent themes in the lives of talented individuals, and seeks to identify factors that contribute to achievement. Twenty-eight chapters cover giftedness; genius; social, educational, parental influences on exceptional achievement; personality dispositions and personal dynamics. Each chapter reports on research studies with clarity and a minimal amount of jargon.
Lee Cullum has pulled off the impossible. She has written a book of serious scholarship about the creative geniuses of the twentieth century that sings. It swings and sways with the magic of the great ones--Einstein, Picasso, Woolf, Freud, Churchill, Gandhi, Gershwin, Chaplin and so many others. This is an accessible work of citation and interpretation that belongs on every bookshelf and under every reading light.
Genius Denied tells the stories of gifted children who have suffered the tedium of classes years behind their ability level, and others who have excelled while learning in an enriching academic environment. The author's Jan and Bob Davidson, and Laura Vanderkam explore the impact of gifted education policy and advocacy efforts in various locations around the U.S.A.
A mother's story of the early development of her profoundly gifted, extremely mathematically precocious son, Michael, and her struggles to obtain an appropriate assessment and educational provisions for him. Audrey Grost discusses family issues and educational problems as well as how the family dealt with extensive media coverage when Michael became the youngest college student ever.
Subotnik explores the lives of those who have grown up gifted in this book. It summarizes a study administered to access the outcomes of early identification and schooling among a group of highly gifted students. There is information on the realities of schools, the expectations of others, and the choices that the gifted make as adults. The authors propose that reported reflections of these now older subjects can help in the gifted development of future students.
In this book, author H. J. Eysenck considers the role of intelligence, social status, gender, and many other factors that have been linked with genius and creativity. His theory traces creativity from DNA through personality to special cognitive processes to genius. Eysenck puts forth the argument is that it may be the fact that they believe that they are geniuses that make them so.
Despite the best efforts of parents, today's adolescents frequently drink, experiment with drugs and are sexually active. According to the Anthony E. Wolf, however, it is still important to have rules even though a teenager may break them. He clearly has a feel for both the angst of young people who must deal with an evermore complex world and the difficulties parents face when a cooperative loving child morphs into a teenager who lies, talks back and avoids parental company.
Real-life topics from architecture to sewing assure these 21 "discovery activities" make sense. Students use Pattern Blocks, tessellation patterns, geoboards, and dice to explore area and perimeter and make connections to multiplication, fractions, and decimals. Includes journal writing and extension ideas and blackline masters.
Getting to Yes offers a concise, step-by-step, proven strategy for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in every sort of conflict. Getting to Yes tells you how to separate the people from the problem; focus on interests, not positions; work together to create options that will satisfy both parties; and negotiate successfully with people who are more powerful, refuse to play by the rules, or resort to 'dirty tricks.'
This book is for teachers and parents who have children of special ability/gifted. This resource takes an accessible, practical and inclusive approach to ways of working with highly gifted children.
This chapter reviews the history of the homeschooling movement among families with gifted children, explores some of the reasons families of gifted children choose homeschooling as an educational alternative, reviews the way giftedness can unexpectedly impact legal issues, curriculum development, and socialization in the homeschool, and looks ahead at the future of homeschooling gifted children.
"Slowly but surely there is an evolving framework and body of law developing in this country that can be used to settle gifted controversies.... For the parents and teachers of the gifted who have exhausted the negotiation process...mediation is a viable vehicle for finding a resolution in the most friendly, amicable manner." This book addresses options for parents and teachers alike in the advocacy process for gifted children in schools. "This library of legal information is valuable to those working with gifted students and for the parents of gifted students."
This book by Gary A. Davis Ph. D. is a no-nonsense guide to the concept of giftedness in children, and how parents can provide opportunities to cultivate their children's gifts. Chapters address how to identify gifted children, the pros and cons of educational acceleration and common problems or counseling needs among gifted children.
Author Kate Distin aims to help children and their families learn more about what is typical or normal for gifted and talented children and to shatter some of the myths about these children and their parents.
Winner's book focuses on both intellectual and artistic giftedness. This book has a developmental psychology perspective, but also addresses educational issues. Of particular note to those who work with the profoundly gifted, Winner makes a case that public funding for gifted programs should be focused on the most profoundly gifted students first, with higher classroom standards the means for meeting the needs of the moderately gifted.
This book by Joan Franklin Smutny pulls together years of research on educating gifted students. The result is a book that incorporates research with practical advice, how-tos, worksheets and application.
According to Booklist Review, "...Streznewski is alone in addressing, for the general reader, what happens to gifted kids after high school. Writer-educator Streznewski interviewed a highly diverse collection of 100 gifted adults to see what her own gifted children--and her students--would face in the "real world." After defining giftedness, Streznewski examines old and new research on the nature of intelligence and other gifts and explores ways gifted people hide their talents. Other topics include special challenges within families, at school, as young adults, and in seeking challenging work; the plight of gifted dropouts and criminals; and how giftedness affects relationships, roles available to women, and the capacity of seniors to continue to contribute."
This book presents research on the early developmental history of children who come to perform at the gifted IQ level during middle childhood, representing an integration of the four authors' interests in the fields of intelligence, psychometrics, and developmental psychology. The research presented is based on the Fullerton Longitudinal Study, which entails the systematic investigation of a single cohort studied from infancy onward.
This book by Arlene Devries and James T. Webb, provides provides the essential information for persons wishing to conduct SENG Model parent support groups for parents of gifted children. The groups are designed to help parents gain a better understanding of their children and to help their children develop positive self-esteem and interpersonal skills.
Authors Gross, MacLeod, Drummond, and Merrick deliver an informative resource assisting teachers in developing curriculum enriching activities.
The authors of this book (Gross, MacLeod, Pretorius) offer direct and practical assistance in differentiating the secondary school syllabus to extend and challenge students talented in specific areas, developing your own curriculum units for gifted students, understanding the characteristics and needs of gifted and talented students. These curriculum ideas can be easily adapted to your own needs.
Young gifted children, although a diverse group within the population, demonstrate a number of distinctive characteristics particularly in the cognitive, social and emotional domains. This paper explores the nature of the young gifted child's thinking during the period of early childhood. The discussion is illustrated with examples provided by the families of young gifted children. The examples of children's conversations, drawings, and work samples from the study highlight the reality of the rived experience of young gifted children. They also challenge adult preconceptions of the young child and suggest the need to reconceptualize the roles and relationships within early childhood pedagogy.
This text's research is included in every book and research paper concerning "Twice-Exceptional," "Gifted/Learning Disabled," or underserved gifted populations that has followed. It is a must have for all researchers, parents, and or teachers who are concerned about or deal with highly able students that have mitigating problems.
Read about original concepts that form a framework to help parents better understand their daughters. JoAnn Deak and Teresa Barker give us girls perspectives as they struggle with body image, self esteem, intellectual growth, peer pressure, and media messages.
Interdisciplinary book explores the patterns and symbols in the works of mathematician Kurt Godel, artist M.C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach--and more. Pulitzer Prize winner. Topics Covered: artificial intelligence (AI) history and theories, strange loops and tangled hierarchies, formal and informal systems, number theory, form in mathematics, figure and ground, consistency, completeness, Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry, recursive structures, theories of meaning, propositional calculus, typographical number theory, Zen and mathematics, levels of description and computers; theory of mind: neurons, minds and thoughts.
"Step-by-step, parents learn to help their 5 to 12-year-olds make friends and solve problems with other kids. This guide also offers concrete help for teasing, bullying and meanness, both for the child who is picked on and the tormentor. Based on the prestigious UCLA Children's Social Skills Program, this book teaches clinically tested techniques that really work."
This comprehensive guide from authors Webb, Gore, Karnes, and McDaniel, enables the reader to identify the signs of advanced development and the special needs of bright children as well as developing education plans, and what to do when a grandparent becomes the parent.
The author argues that our current system of education fails to provide the discipline and challenges necessary for children to fully develop.
The Hidden Ivies focuses on liberal arts colleges and universities that are of comparable quality to the Ivies. Based on surveys and interviews with students as well as college presidents, deans of faculty, and other administrators, The Hidden Ivies presents an inside perspective of thirty leading institutions of exceptional merit. These colleges and universities provide an outstanding educational experience for the gifted college-bound student and provide the foundation for life after graduation.
The most influential works on acceleration and grouping practices for the gifted are gathered in this volume, which covers concerns about the effectiveness of such techniques, presents research on the optimal conditions and methods for the utilization of grouping and/or acceleration, and describes effective programmatic initiatives. (Source: Amazon.com)
This book contains examples of lessons which "allow all students to experience the joy of learning about themselves while acting in the service of others." All of the activities contain the following elements...They involve both cognitive and affective learning. They are experiential, open-ended, product focused and flexible in scope and time. They can be modified to suit teachers' and students' needs.
This manual provides Christian homeschoolers with a plan for preparing for schooling and career after high school graduation. The Callihans explore the college admissions process, college entrance, career preparation, future family life, and other related issues from a Christian perspective. Specific materials and resources are suggested. The Callihans also briefly address the issue of early graduation.
This book is an introduction to the two kana systems. The book covers origin and function, writing practice, pronunciation, and some vocabulary.
This award-winning practical source for parents and teachers discusses the unique social and emotional needs and concerns of gifted students. Chapters on motivation, discipline, peer relationships, sibling relationships, stress management, depression, and many other issues that parents and teachers encounter daily with these children are included. See also: A Parent's Guide to Gifted Children, an updated version of this book.
The 3rd edition of this classic text is the most comprehensive print resource currently available that addresses important research-based considerations in gifted education. Many respected professionals have contributed chapters that cover the following topics: conceptions and identification; instructional models and practices; creativity, thinking skills, and eminence; psychological and counseling issues; populations of giftedness; and special topics, including technology, rural schools, and legal issues.
This in-depth handbook examines the categories of exceptionality most often described in educational, behavioral, and health practices. Here, editors Vicki L. Schwean and Donald H. Saklofske compile valuable information from leading authorities in the medical, psychological and educational fields.
Here's a super treasury of 279 exciting math games and activities that help students learn by engaging both their minds and their bodies. Dispensing with tired "rote" learning and memorization, Hands-On Math! uses fun-filled exercises that encourage your students to think and reason mathematically.
This user-friendly guidebook educates parents and teachers about important gifted issues such as working with schools, evaluating classroom programs, forming parent support groups, choosing appropriate curriculum, meeting social and emotional needs, surviving the ups and downs, and much more! The information and useful advice provided make this book an ideal resource both for those just starting out in the gifted field as well as those who are already seasoned veterans.
The aim of this book is to help children who are "square pegs" in social circles. The authors, both of whom are Clinical Psychologists, offer parents strategies for helping their child improve his/her social relationships through improved non-verbal communication skills. Chapter titles include: Use of space and touch, gestures and postures, facial expressions, and the like.
Aletha Solter presents a new approach to parenting which respects the child's needs and feelings. Without using punishment nor rewards, children are allowed to reach their highest potential.
Homeschool Your Child For Free is a compilation of free curriculum guides, worksheets, educational materials, lesson plans, reference materials, teaching tips, legal issues, and more. Parents can use it to design a homeschool program, without spending any money. It contains reading readiness activities for preschoolers to science projects for teens, and categorizes, reviews, and rates more than 1,200 educational resources on the Internet and beyond.
This book contains the curriculum suggestions of the Colfaxes, who sent three homeschooled sons to Harvard.
"A compelling story about one family's journey into the unknown territory of homeschooling, told with skill by Alison McKee, a gifted teacher with a wide experience in traditional education and a special sensitivity to the individual needs of children. Trusting her own children to 'show me the way' was a difficult challenge - but one that gave unexpected and rich rewards."
History with the nasty bits left! This series makes history come alive through satire, parody and comics! Includes: The Awesome Egyptians,The Groovy Greeks, The Cut-throat Celts,The Rotten Romans, The Vicious Vikings, The Measly Middle Ages, The Angry Aztecs, The Terrible Tudors, The Slimy Stuarts, The Gorgeous Georgians, The Vile Victorians, and The Blitzed Brits. Note: some of the above may not be available readily in the U.S.A. Amazon.co.uk offers quick, reliable delivery.
Alissa Quart shows how a gifted childhood that is "relentlessly tested, totally overscheduled and joylessly competitive" is being created by some parents and concludes that "enrichment" not only doesn't necessarily work, it may be harmful.
There are many theories circulating about how to reform our educational system. One organization, which has a proven track record in this field, is the Center for Talented Youth at The Johns Hopkins University. The material presented here is of interest to educators, as well as parents of both preschool and school children, and should be required reading for school administrators and education policy makers at all levels. Its unconventional approach to reforming American education also provides insights for foreign educators and social scientists interested in comparing educational systems.
First published in the 1960s, this book has been updated numerous times to reflect the latest insight on the factors that can cause children to fail. Author John Holt concludes that students learn strategies for appearing to know content, rather than the content itself. Parents of gifted children may find this book helpful as underachievement is a common issue in the gifted community.
See Jane Win was propelled to the bestseller list by girls and parents seeking advice on how modern women can achieve success and happiness. How Jane Won, its companion, tells the stories of some 50 women who have been successful both at work and at home. Ranging in age from 30 to 80--some famous, some not--these women speak in their own voices about how their girlhoods sowed the seeds for their success, and how they coped with society's prejudices, triumphed despite discouragement, and found inspiration.
In this book, David Sousa examines why traditional talent-identification techniques are inadequate (and often inaccurate), and presents methods that will allow you to identify giftedness and talent potential with greater accuracy than ever before.
How to Get into the Top Colleges is the definitive resource for students determined to stand out from the increasingly crowded and competitive field of applicants and join the ranks of the chosen few at America's most prestigious schools.
C. Drew Edwards offers alternative parenting strategies by showing your child "Support Through Listening." By applying this technique, the child tends to be less resistant to authority and less prone to temper tantrums.
Thoughtful, clear-eyed, comprehensive, and refreshingly free of jargon, How to Keep Your Teenager Out of Trouble and What to do if you Can't helps parents identify whether their teens are exhibiting typical behavior-such as locking themselves in their room for hours-or are exhibiting real danger signs, such as being secretive, despondent, or constantly angry. And then he tells parents what to do about it.
Dr. Rimm gives practical, compassionate, no-nonsense advice for raising happy, secure, and productive children, from preschool to college. Easy-to-follow parent pointers, sample dialogues, and boxed step-by-step examples show parents how to guide their children.
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish offer suggestions for giving praise, acknowledging feelings and gaining true cooperation. The authors explain that it is all about effective communication and its strategies are healthy and effective for every relationship.
"ASCD announces a new book designed to help every teacher who chairs a department, leads a committee, manages a team, coordinates a program, or mentors other teachers to accomplish basic leadership tasks with speed and precision. Filled with tips and how-to's that are left out of most teacher education courses and inservice programs, the guide covers formal and informal tasks that teacher leaders at every grade level are expected to know but rarely do."
This practical resource offers up-to-date information for building an effictive, defenssible identification process. It acts as a hands-on, research-based guide for identifying gifted and talented children.
This is a resource writing book for teachers, or homeschool parents, etc. who are trying to teach children how to write. It contains activities to inspire young writers to write, revise and edit. There are many ideas on assessing student growth.
The volume "Ignite the FIRE!" is both a philosophy of education and collection of creative ideas for teaching basic, advanced, and enrichment subjects in a homeschooling setting. The author's perspective is avowedly Christian in orientation, but even if you do not share the author's religious beliefs, this volume contains enough exciting and practical ideas for teaching to make it very valuable to homeschooling parents and to elementary gifted education enrichment teachers alike.
Authors, Roni Cohen-Sandler and Michelle Silver say, that although the teen years can be a tumultuous time for girls and their mothers, don't despair, strong feelings and conflict, of approached correctly, can actually lead to a deeper mutual understanding and a more satisfying relationship.
This book is a great resource for anyone interested in teaching or understanding the philosophy of multiage instruction. The first section deals with the underlying research and history regarding graded and non-graded classrooms. The authors offer clear and convincing arguments for multiage instruction. The middle is how to change from a graded to a multiage classroom or school. The last section has teaching strategies and advice for managing the organized chaos of a multiage classroom, or any classroom where a teacher wishes to differentiate curriculum.
Make grammer fun by using this book from Brad Newton.30 creative, improvisational activities are included to help kids learn grammer, puncuation, critical thinking and problm solving. Children in grades 2-10 will enjoy Newton's approach for developing foundational language skills.
Play is the child's way of learning about, adapting to and integrating with his or her environment. In addition to adequate sports and recreation facilities children need a wide variety of opportunities, choices and raw materials that they can use as they see fit for free constructive creative play. These essays, drawn from papers given at the International Playgrounds Association's Seventh World Congress, focus on the social significance of play.
More than a collection of conversations, this is an investigation of creativity - an investigation conducted by the investigated. Here, men around whom we structure the word "genius" itself, men whose minds have helped shape the genius of this century, men like Picasso, Cocteau, Chagall, Dali, and Marceau, reveal and define the genius that moves them.
Cartoonist Jean Watts searches for some perspective on the full-time job of parenting and teaching gifted children. Her original cartoons present amusing viewpoints and thought-provoking insights into life with a precocious child.
By compiling a wide variety of viewpoints from many authors, Diane Boothe looks at the diversity in gifted education as it relates to race, gender, and socioeconomic status.
As debate rages over the widening and destructive gap between the rich and the rest of Americans, Claude Fischer and his colleagues present a comprehensive new treatment of inequality in America. This book stresses that economic fortune depends more on social circumstances than on IQ, which is itself a product of society.
How can new knowledge be created from already existing knowledge? Insights of Genius shows how seeing in all its many forms - insight, revelation, a distinctive point of view - is central to the greatest advances of the human intellect. Artists and scientists alike rely on visual representations of worlds both visible and invisible.
Intellectual Talent examines the political ramifications of emotionally loaded findings about individual differences - documenting cases in which findings that contradict prevailing social values are simply ignored. The book also explores what is known about educating gifted children and why educators sometimes fail to act on that knowledge.
Karen Isaacson and Tamara Fisher share comical stories of children and teenagers in order for the reader to understand and appreciate the intellectual and emotional lives of gifted students. They cover key concepts such as: Curiosity is a powerful motivator for learning; Excellent teachers noth follow and lead their students; Learning happens when learners are inspired, not when they are admonished; and, Good teachers help students develop disciplined minds without overcoming students with discipline.
This book provides an accessible source of ideas on major issues pertaining to development of creative individuals and training for creativity. It presents recently developing perspectives to investigate many facets of creativity.
This book outlines a proven step-by-step program to help change your child's behavior at home. Stephen Garber discusses the characteristics of inattentiveness, hyperactivity and impulsivity.
"This book for parents and educators delineates methods of addressing the needs of mathematically talented youth younger than age 12. The approaches described are based on the authors’ experiences with hundreds of talented students. They discuss educational options allowing students to move systematically through the elementary math curriculum while matching the curriculum to the students' abilities and achievements. The book includes problem sets from the Mathematical Olympiads for Elementary Schools as well as practical ideas for classroom teachers, mathematics mentors, and parents."
A comprehensive resource for selecting the right college for students with learning disabilities.
Sylvia Rimm offer guidelines on how to determine if their children are unusually gifted, and how to prepare them for school. Rimm's guidelines help to ensure that gifted children are sufficiently challenged in the classroom. There is also a section, Parenting Keys, to help parents raise healthy, happy, productive, and well-adjusted children in the demanding contemporary environment.
In this book, Mary Kurcinka helps you to unravel the mysteries of power struggles by offering insights into differences and normal growth patterns. Recognizing that every child is unique and every discipline situation different, Kurcinka views power struggles as an opportunity to teach your child essential life skills.
This collection of articles from Gifted Child Today (compiled by Susan K. Johnsen and James Kendrick) were selected specifically for the teacher who is searching for ways to serve students who are gifted in English/language arts.
"Pessimism is escapable," asserts Martin Seligman, by learning a new set of cognitive skills that will enable you to take charge, resist depression, and make yourself feel better and accomplish more. Content includes test for you and your child, worksheets, and skill teaching for changing from pessimism to optimism.
Janet W. Lerner and Frank Kline provide a comprehensive overview of this complex subject by covering theoretical approaches within the field, procedures for assessing and evaluating students, skills in the art of clinical teaching, teaching methods and strategies, and requirements of special education laws.
Based on real-life experience and recommended by colleges and universities around the country, Letting Go offers compassionate, practical, and up-to-the-minute information to help parents with the emotional and social changes of the college years.
Educators can enhance their reading programs with fun titles while meeting the needs of advanced K-6 readers. Author Teresa Smith Masiello is a Gifted and Talented Specialist for the Virginia public school system. Activities include learning centers, graphic organizers. literature binders and more!
Lives of Promise provides a vivid picture of the challenges talented young people must navigate in translating academic ability and achievement into successful adult careers and lives.
Author and psychologist Linda Budd offers hope for parents by spelling out the characteristics of "active alerts" and teaches how to help these children thrive in school and family.
Reaffirming the value of the small liberal arts college, author Loren Pope shows parents and students how and why to look beyond Ivy League and other well-known schools to choose the college that best suits their needs--and how to avoid the pitfalls of the college selection process. This unique book gives students and their parents an assurance no other does: that for the 97% who don't get into Ivy League schools or their clones, there are plenty of good colleges that will do as much or more to start them on successful lives. College Placement Bureau director, Loren Pope shows you how to find the colleges that produce achievers--and how to avoid the pitfalls of the college selection process.
Deborah L. Ruf divides the content of this book in to three parts dealing with: Identifying characteristics of giftedness, levels of giftedness and educational options and school issues. This reference can help someone who is not professionally trained in giftedness issues, bridge the gap between the real child and the child's IQ.
This book by Marian Diamond and Janet Hopson, is primarily aimed at parents and educators, but it is an extremely valuable resource for anyone (gifted children included) who are interested in brain development and the influence of appropriate enrichment.
This book by Marian Diamond and Janet Hopson, is primarily aimed at parents and educators, but it is an extremely valuable resource for anyone (gifted children included) who are interested in brain development and the influence of appropriate enrichment.
From Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill to Winston Churchill, a distinguished historian tells the life stories, delving deeply into the psychological background as well as the accomplishments, of eight men and one woman whose ideas and actions epitomize the essential development of British political and social life for the last hundred and fifty years.
This book covers 10 Steps to Gaining Admission to Selective Colleges and Universities. The competition for admission to the best colleges keeps getting tougher. Howard and Matthew Greene have mastered the science and art of college admission. The proven ten-step program they use in private counseling is now available to all students who want to attend an outstanding college or university.
This book offers teachers numerous concrete, easy-to-use teaching strategies to help gifted students develop socially, emotionally, as well as intellectually. Topics include resolving conflicts at school and at home, managing stress, and handling feelings of "differentness." Teachers will also find helpful guidelines in dealing with parents, administrators, and attitudes about gifted education.
This Gifted Child Today Reader by editors Susan Johnsen and James Kendrick, offers information about how to differentiate for mathematically gifted students, as well as tried-and-true instructional strategies to employ, including tiered lessons, distance learning, and activities combining architecture and math.
This book by Kristy Fulton explores the "math logic puzzles" concept in puzzle solving. Students are taught the basic premises behind each challenging puzzle: real-life patterns and puzzles such as Fibonacci's triangle, tangrams, and Sudoku. Resources for teaching math patterns are also included. For grades 2-4.
This book shows us how, with an understandable ten step program for home and an equally straightforward program for school, children with attention or behavior problems can succeed with the help of firm, loving parents and teachers. Jim Fay, Foster Cline and Robert Sornson have been sharing the skills of parenting through Love and Logic for over 20 years.
Some students learn best in mentorship programs - either as an alternative educational experience or as an added component of a traditional education. For many students, mentorships provide an ideal setting in which students can excel in an area of interest. Successful mentorships, however, are not easy to establish. This book describes a highly successful mentorship program in "how to" terms that are easily applied and adaptable to a variety of situations.
The book focus on differentiating instruction for gifted learners. Sections include: characteristics and needs of gifted learners, instructional planning and evaluation, strategies for best practices, supporting and enhancing gifted programs. The book also contains lists of up-to-date books, teaching materials, websites and other resources. Contributing authors include: Carolyn M. Callahan, Sandra Kaplan, Sally Reis, Julia Link Roberts and Joyce VanTassel-Baska.
Dr. Ann Lupkowski Shoplik highly recommends books from this series. They are wonderful for teachers as well as homeschoolers. This series includes a number of activities for the students, and it's great for the teachers--very well-organized, lists of materials, "teacher talk," "student talk," etc.
In this book, Suzanne Donovan and Christopher Cross of the U.S. National Research Council, consider possible contributors to the disproportionate representation of racial and ethnic minority students in GT programs. Discussions include early biological and environmental influences and inequities in opportunities for preschool and K-12 education, as well as the possibilities of bias in the referral and assessment system that leads to placement in special programs.
Written by six experts in the field, this award winning book (2006 recipient of the ForeWord Magazine's Gold Medal Best Book of the Year Award in Psychology) discusses the importance of identifying giftedness and understanding how the characteristics of being gifted are often similar to those used to diagnosis disorders such as ADHD, ODD, Bipolar, OCD, Autism, or Asperser’s. This book outlines steps for successfully identifying the differences between giftedness and disorders.
Sal Mendaglio brings together a group of contributing authors who
share in detail their approaches to counseling clients who are gifted and talented. This book is designed to help interested professionals, as well as those in preparation programs, conduct effective counseling techniques with highly able clients.
In this ground-breaking book, Dr. Koplewicz uses his experience as a clinician and researcher to help parents distinguish between normal teenage angst and actual depression, a serious psychiatric illness. He combines prescriptive advice and compelling stories to show parents the warning signs, risk factors, and key symptoms that distinguish this behavior from depression, an under treated problem that can have serious long-term consequences, and that can even be life-threatening.
James Bellanca, Carolyn Chapman and Elizabeth Swartz designed this book to assist teachers in modifying assessment practices by leading the reader through the process that guides him/her through multiple intelligences and assessment practices. The authors do this by showing educators how to devise specific performance standards for each intelligence and easily apply them directly in the classroom. Also included are sample lessons that target the intelligence.
"This book traces the stories of 44 musical prodigies over three centuries, drawing on historical sources as well as personal accounts and interviews. It offers much fascinating information about the lives and careers of its subjects and their attitude toward the struggles, tribulations, and triumphs of the prodigy experience. Unfortunately, the author's style is often self-conscious, flowery, and effusive, and his judgments are not without bias. However, the copious quotes give the book immediacy and authenticity."
Isaac Stern is a great performing artist, famous for his profound music-making, and his dedication to sharing his knowledge and wisdom with younger musicians. He began performing publicly while still very young, and was soon touring across the country and around the world. His fame escalated when he led the fight to save Carnegie Hall, and again when he was the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary film From Mao to Mozart. In this book he shares his personal and artistic experiences.
Feldman's study of six male child prodigies includes extensive descriptions of the children's development in babyhood and early childhood. This volume includes case study material on an "omnibus prodigy" who scored well above 200 IQ.
"Numbers and Geometry is a beautiful and relatively elementary account of a part of mathematics where three main fields - algebra, analysis, and geometry - meet. The aim of this book is to give a broad view of these subjects at the level of calculus, without being a calculus (or a pre-calculus) book. Its roots are in arithmetic and geometry, the two opposite poles of mathematics, and the source of historic conceptual conflict. The resolution of this conflict, and its role in the development of mathematics, is one of the main stories in the book. The key is algebra, which brings arithmetic and geometry together, and allows them to flourish and branch out in new directions."
Whether your child is a tantrum-prone toddler, a shy third-grader, a rebellious teen, or somewhere in between, this book from Paul Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger and E. Michael Ellovichwill give you the power to understand why children are the way they are - and to become the best parent you can be.
This book is the cornerstone upon which to build any Suzuki-oriented library. In it the author presents the philosophy and principles of Suzuki's teaching methods. Through the examples from his own life and teaching, Suzuki establishes his case for early childhood education and the high potential of every human being, not just those seemingly gifted. Written by Shinichi Suzuki, translated by Waltraud Suzuki.
This book by Rachel Simmons, begins with the premise that girls are socialized to be sweet with a double bind: they must value friendships; but they must not express the anger that might destroy them. Lacking cultural permission to acknowledge conflict, girls develop what the author calls "a hidden culture of silent and indirect aggression." Simons, who visited 30 schools and talked to 300 girls, presents clear-cut strategies for parents, teachers, and girls who resist them.
Busy moms and teachers will relate to these comical drawings by Jean Watt about the stresses, worries, frustrations, and ironies they experience everyday.
Jeff Hawkins develops a powerful theory of how the human brain works, explaining why computers are not intelligent and how, based on this new theory, we can finally build intelligent machines.
Dr. Tracy Cross brings together years of columns from Gifted Child Today, which combine his knowledge of research on the social and emotional aspects of giftedness along with his experience, resulting in a readable, useful look into these unique students.
This book presents students with a unique introduction to the field of gifted education. The history and curriculum of gifted education are intermingled with interviews and stories highlighting the lives and words of educators and researchers who have devoted their time and energy to gifted children.
One Child is the story of Sheila, an emotionally disturbed, profoundly gifted child who ended up assigned to teacher Torey Hayden's classroom because there were no beds in the children's unit of the state psychiatric hospital. Sheila, 6 years old, and the daughter of an economically disadvantaged migrant worker, had tried to kill a three-year-old. This is the story of how Torey "tamed" Sheila, discovered her extraordinarily high IQ, and eventually helped her to change her behavior enough so that she was able to be accelerated and mainstreamed into a regular third grade classroom.
The topics covered in this book by Sara Shandler, include parental expectations, racial relations, and faith and eating disorders. Shandler also gives practical insight for parents who may find it hard to relate to their teenage daughters. Ranging from problems with body image and self-mutilation to difficult relationships with parents and other family members, to intense academic pressures, the book includes entries from dozens of girls across the country
A handbook of lessons which integrate teaching thinking skills into instruction--language arts, writing, science, math, social studies, personal problem solving, and enrichment. The central feature of all lessons is the use of graphic organizers to illustrate how information is related. Each lesson includes a lesson plan, background information, and answers. Reading level: grade 4; ability level: grades 2-5; 82 activities, graphic organizers and answers included. Reproducible for single-classroom or single-home use.
Students who use graphic organizers learn to see information as systems or relationships which improves their retention of facts, helps them simplify complex tasks, and enhances their problem solving abilities.
What makes an Einstein happen? How is it that some kids grow up to be Nobel laureates while others, seemingly their equals, go on to undistinguished careers? Dean Simonton, professor of psychology at the University of California at Davis, has striven to understand this phenomenon for years and has compiled his insights and research in Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity.
This book by author S. Shaywitz is about the roots of dyslexia and offers parents and educators hope that children with reading problems can be helped. For the one in every five children who has dyslexia and the millions of others who struggle to read at their own grade levels—and for their parents, teachers, and tutors—this book can make a difference.
The MESA Series combines essential pre-algebra topics with exciting hands-on science explorations to motivate students in both mathematics and science. Using materials and group collaboration to solve open-ended problems, students make connections between classroom and real-world mathematics and science. These easy-to-use Teacher Resource Books include activity overviews, background information, reproducible activity masters, and assessment strategies.
James R. Delisle, Ph.D. offers tips and strategies for raising a gifted child today with a humorous and encouraging perspective. Some topics include: understanding personality traits and perfectionism in gifted children, how to work with the school system, setting reasonable goals and more. Click here to read a review of this book.
While this digest includes articles, research reports and advice from Gifted Children Monthly, it also contains original work by James Alvino on emotional needs, perfectionism and the superbaby scourge and gender-specific issues.
Parent's Guide to Standardized Tests for Grades 3-5 is a complete guide to understanding tests and preparing your child for a successful test-taking experience. The book provides an overview of standardized tests, practical home activities to reinforce math and verbal skills, effective test-taking strategies, and a list of state test websites.
"The perceived natural character of gifted children is to be well behaved, hard working, and studious. Why, then, do so many gifted children have trouble in school? Rosemary Callard-Szulgit, herself a recovering perfectionist, explains how perfectionism can immobilize some children and cause social adjustment problems."
This thought-provoking book explains the differences between healthy ambition and unhealthy perfectionism and gives strategies for recognizing the symptoms. Learn how to: Identify what perfectionism can do to your mind and body, Recognize what perfectionism can do to your relationships, Set reasonable standards for yourself, Take positive risks and more. This book can also provide adults insight into how their behavior and expectations can contribute to perfectionism in the teens they parent and teach."
"Perfectionism is a problem for many teenagers today."
This is an introductory book to philosophy, which is divided by topics (ethics, metaphysics, etc.). Each section also contains a list of suggestions for further reading.
Do you ever wonder what you can do with your child while you are running errands, waiting in line or have the whole day to spend together? How do you make every moment together fun and interesting? Susan K. Perry has some ideas, and she includes over five hundred of them in this book. Her suggested activities range from brain teasers to outdoor adventures; and are all for children ages 4-14. This book gives parents, educators, mentors or anyone who spends time with a child, ways to turn ordinary daily experiences into engaging and memorable experiences that involve fun and learning.
Please Stop the Rollercoaster! How Parents of Teenagers Can Smooth Out the Ride is a blog that covers the most important topics for parents to examine when raising teenagers.
Ranging from the design of anchors and the Battle of the Atlantic to the outbreak of cholera in Victorian Soho, this text describes a variety of lively topics that continue to intrigue professional mathematicians. Relatively simple terms and ideas are used.
Practical Ideas That Really Work for Students Who Are Gifted is written by Gail Ryser and Kathleen McConnell to help educators and gifted specialists identify gifted students and then provides ideas on gifted instructional techniques and strategies. This tool kit allows parents to not only buy the book, but also offers evaluation forms and updates the materials periodically.
Target the schools that best match your interests and goals. The Complete Book of Colleges profiles all of the four-year colleges in the U.S. (more than 1,600!) and is the key to a successful college search.
Today's responsible parents strive to raise children with healthy egos. But for a lot of adults, the word "ego" carries the negative connotation of "narcissism." Traditionally, the "good" child learned self-control, self-denial and placed parental needs and wishes first. If those needs were abusive to the child, there was no choice but to block the hurtful behavior in order to hold onto adults who were loved and needed. Miller recognized the link between certain emotional problems in adulthood and repressed childhood anguish.
This book is the heavyweight champion of problems in recreational mathematics, containing a large number of very detailed problems in many areas. The presentation strategy is to develop the topic by using problems followed by an explanation followed by a detailed solution. The chapters are largely independent, so it is possible to pick and chose the topics for a course. Do not let the word recreational in the title lead you to believe that these problems are bunnies. With hundreds of problems, detailed solutions to the demonstrations and hints for most included, this is a resource unlike all others.
Contains more than 1,100 descriptions of dance, music, theater, and visual arts programs.
In this service publication of the National Association for Gifted Children, editors Frances Karnes and Stephanie Nugent, provide a retrospctive review of events and milestones that have shaped the field of gifted education. Through individual profiles, more than 50 influential people in the gifted education field share their insights of where gifted education has been and where it is going.
This book is an experts guide to gifted education, and is part of the essential readings in gifted education series. The topics of this book include gifted education and the major issues, trends, and various teaching methods influencing the field.
This book will help you understand how your daughter's relationship with friends and cliques sets the stage for other intimate relationships as she grows and guides her when she has tougher choices to make about intimacy, drinking and drugs, and other hazards. With its revealing look into the secret world of teenage girls and cliques, enlivened with the voices of dozens of girls and a much-needed sense of humor, Queen Bees and Wannabes will equip you with all the tools you need to build the right foundation to help your daughter make smarter choices and empower her during this baffling, tumultuous time of life.
Reading the stories in this book by Karen Isaacson will not only help you appreciate your own family, but also give you an informal introduction to the world of giftedness. Isaacson offers a hilarious look at life in a gifted family, with five kids, each as different yet challanging as the one before.
This book from Bob Murray and Alicia Fortinberry, offers a safe, drug-free approach o protect your child from depression. Parents can learn how to spot the early signs fo depression and even prevent your own depression from influencing your child.
In this book, author and therapist Steve Biddulph explains to parents how to embrace the differences between boys and girls and work with them. Citing such gender specific risks facing boys as a higher percentage of learning disabilities to greater threats of violence and suicide, Biddulph maps out parenting strategies for three distinct stages of growth
This handbook by Michael Sayler, is designed to help you understand and appreciate your child even more, and it will provide you with practical suggestions for working with your child's school. Raising Champions will help you understand the meanings and implications of having a gifted or talented child in your family.
Barbara Klein holds doctoral degrees in both clinical psychology and early childhood education. In this book, Dr. Klein helps parents understand and cope with the obstacles they face in raising a gifted child by helping them make the best choices for their son’s or daughter’s growth and happiness.
Author Robert A. Cutietta, offers a complete, practical guide to this common parenting issue. The premise of the book is that practicing is hard work and the pay-off is very long term. The book suggests using rewards related to music (concert tickets, better instrument, etc.) to get kids to practice. The basic point is that even people who become professional musicians relied on parent involvement to get them to practice when they were young.
Authors Robert Brooks and Sam Goldstein present a set of 10 essential parenting behaviors ("guideposts") - a prescription of sorts, for nurturing resilience in kids. Each chapter describes a different guidepost and illustrates what can be done to foster psychological strength, hope and optimism.
Alexandra Golon explains how the reader can assess and identify a visual-spatial child then offers tips to parent and educate them. This book also serves to enlighten the rest of the family as well.
When you understand your temperamental matches--and your mismatches--you can better understand, work, live, socialize, and enjoy spirit in your child. By reframing challenging temperamental qualities in a positive way, and by giving readers specific tools to work with these qualities, Kurcinka has provided a book that will help all parents, especially the parents of spirited children, understand and better parent their children.
Jaime Castellano and Eva Díaz offer a comprehensive overview at the interface between bilingual/multicultural/ESL education and gifted education. The authors have collaborated to create a book that bridges research and practice and has far-reaching implications for educators at all levels as culturally and linguistically diverse students continue to impact public education.
This book provides parents and educators ideas for discussing fiction with their children. The goal of this book is to help parents teach their children to enjoy reading.
Based on William Pollack's groundbreaking research at Harvard Medical School for more than two decades, Real Boys explores this generation's "silent crisis": why so many boys are sad, lonely, and confused although they may appear tough, cheerful, and confident. Only when we understand what boys are really experiencing, says Pollack, can parents and teachers help them develop more self-confidence and the emotional savvy they need to deal with issues such as depression and violence, drugs and alcohol, sexuality and love.
With four simple truths as his framework, Charles Murray sweeps away the hypocrisy, wishful thinking, and upside-down priorities that grip America’s educational establishment.
This book by Kathryn J. Kvols and Bill Riedler discusses a new approach to discipline. Parents know there should be more to family life than arguments, neglected chores, disrespectful kids, infringed limits, and punishments that don't create self-motivated individuals. This book based on firmness and kindness helps promote peace in families by offering skills to understand why kids misbehave; improve communication and encourage children; set and enforce limits positively; and teach children self-control.
Reforming Gifted Education is a research-based book by Karen Rogers, discusses acceleration of students, grouping within the school setting, and program provisions both in and outside of school. Rogers spells out and categorizes ways for schools, teachers, and parents to meet the needs of gifted children, including which students will benefit from particular instructional delivery methods and how each student need can best be addressed.
With Dr. Ruby Pane, Dr. Paul Slocumb, former president of Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented and an educator for 30 years, explains how standard identification tools are not the best way to identify gifted children in poverty. The authors have created new instruments that take poverty into account, which provide schools a method for achieving equity in gifted programs.
This book provides excellent insight into the reasons some gifted black students are not identified as such by the processes currently in place. It also provides reasons some black parents may not wish their child to be included in gifted programs. It discusses black culture and dialect. A very good book for educators who are concerned about minorities being underrepresented in our school's gifted programs.
Mary Pihper explains why more American adolescent girls are prone to depression, eating disorders, addictions, and suicide attempts than ever before. Dr. Pipher challenges the reader to look at what our culture does to teenage girls.
In their book, Jeffrey Freed and Laurie Parsons include a convenient checklist for determining if your child is right brained or left and offer wonderful ideas on how to teach those students who just don't "get" the methods teachers commonly use.
The College Board Scholarship Handbook 2005 is the ideal resource for students and parents looking for alternative ways to fund a college education. It provides complete and authoritative facts about more than 2,100 scholarships, internships, and loan programs offered to undergraduates nationwide by foundations, charitable organizations, and state and federal government agencies. Each program is clearly described, and indexes help students quickly find scholarships for which they qualify.
According to the publisher, this bookwritten by three pioneers in the new field of cognitive science discusses important discoveries about how much babies and young children know and learn, and how much parents naturally teach them. It argues that evolution designed us both to teach and learn, and that the drive to learn is our most important instinct. It also reveals as fascinating insights about our adult capacities and how even young children -- as well as adults -- use some of the same methods that allow scientists to learn so much about the world. Filled with surprise at every turn, this vivid, lucid, and often funny book gives us a new view of the inner life of children and the mysteries of the mind.
This textbook for educators is intended to help them learn to define underachievement as it pertains to the gifted, identify its characteristics and causes among the gifted,
see the effects of neglecting underachievement in these students, understand the special needs of gifted underachievers which are different from the basic needs of students in general, and practice specific ways to help gifted underachievers.
Noted child psychologist Sylvia Rimm, along with her daughters, a research psychologist and a pediatric oncology researcher, conducted a three-year survey of more than a thousand successful women to uncover what elements of their childhood and adolescence contributed to their success -- and how today's parents can give their own daughters the same advantages. Read a review.
This innovative text sheds light on how people work -- why they sometimes function well and, at other times, behave in ways that are self-defeating or destructive. Dweck presents her groundbreaking research on adaptive and maladaptive cognitive-motivational patterns and shows:
- How these patterns originate in people’s self-theories
- Their consequences for the person – for achievement, social relationships, and emotional well-being
- Their consequences for society, from issues of human potential to stereotyping and intergroup relations
- The experiences that create them
This is the classic text written by the occupational therapist/psychologist who developed sensory integration theory and intervention.
A. Jean Ayres, Ph.D., was an occupational therapist who first researched and described the theories and frame of reference which we now call sensory integration. In her book, Sensory Integration and the Child, Dr. Ayres makes several analogies, which describe sensory integration and its dysfunction. Like many therapies in the early stages, this book claims a lot; however parents reading it can search out the parts that fit their child and experiences. It is very descriptive of the underlying theory and the practical application of sensory integration treatment. If you want to learn about sensory integration from the founder of the movement - this is the book to get.
This concise guide provides an introduction to the various types of out-of-school programming recommended and appropriate for gifted and advanced learners. VanTassel-Baska includes overviews of mentoring programs, residential schools, summer opportunities, and distance learning. Readers can learn about alternative services for teachers, parents and gifted education program directors.
Robert MacKenzie, founder of the Setting Limits Program, gives parents useful strategies for teaching respectful limit setting. Learn how to understand and empathize with your child without giving in, hold your ground threatening, and remove daily power struggles between you and your child. Setting Limits teaches everybody in the family new skills and encourages a more peaceful life in any social setting.
This book brings to light a theory on our life-limiting behaviors and offers tools for changing them. The book is about mild forms of major mental disorders that sabotage our life. Such shadow syndromes that we live under can include chronic sadness, obsessiveness, and acute anxiety. The authors incorporate information into chapters, such as, The Noisy Brain, The Hidden Epidemic and The Biology of being "Difficult".
"With compassion and humor, the authors challenge the widespread belief that constant sibling conflict is natural and unavoidable; instead, they offer a positive approach with suggestions parents can use to teach their children how to get along with each other. Topics such as teaching parents to stop treating their children equally instead of uniquely, helping children express their angry feelings acceptably, motivating children to solve their own problems, and handling fighting are expertly covered. This book guides the way to peace and tranquility with humor, compassion and understanding, and the illustrated, action-oriented, easy-to-understand stories will make life easier for both siblings and their parents."
This book reprints the six easiest chapters from Feynman's celebrated Lectures on Physics (LJ 12/15/63), which the Nobel Prize-winning scientist delivered from 1961 to 1963 at the California Institute of Technology. Intended for as wide an audience as possible, these chapters are primarily qualitative in nature, with a minimum of formal mathematics. They discuss atoms, basic physics, the relation of physics to other sciences, the conservation of energy, gravitation, and quantum behavior.
This book uses the metaphor of six different hats to talk about different styles of thinking. A great resource for parents and teachers who are interested in helping bright young people to differentiate their thinking abilities.
This book explores the relationship between being highly gifted and being male. The book cites research and case studies showing that many gifted boys don't live up to their potential and suffer social isolation, having to choose between excellence and "normality." Kerr and Cohn start by examining how intelligence figures in images of American males and look at the developmental stages of gifted boys from infancy to manhood. Finally, the authors offer guidance to parents on how to nurture gifted boys and overcome their particular challenges, including ambivalence about their gifts and concerns about masculinity.
"This outstanding book summarizes research on gifted girls, presents biographies of eminent women and examines the current educational and family milieu. Kerr gives practical advice to parents, teachers and policy-makers about ways to help gifted girls reach their potential. Bright women who read this book will see themselves, see their own issues and will find it very helpful. This is the third edition of Dr. Kerr's powerful book." (from publisher)
This book is a great educational resource for parents, educators or counselors of intelligent children who face learning difficulties. The authors, Weinfield, Barnes-Robinson, Jeweler and Shevitz, provide useful, practical advice for helping smart kids with learning challenges succeed in school.
Parents and teachers of gifted students with learning disabilities should be grateful for this definitive work on "conundrum kids" - the superb writer who can't add, the talented speech maker who can't write legibly. Chapters on young children provide practical suggestions and ideas for parents trying to decide when the child should start school and teachers trying to cope. The work also covers students up through college and deals with the topics of visual learning, motor functioning, auditory learning, language and learning, and psychological problems. Strategies for dealing with standardized tests and conquering the world of college are also included. Click here to read a review of this book.
How is the body involved in learning from infancy right through adulthood? Physical activity is crucial. A neuroscientist explains why and gives simple physical exercises that can increase anyone's learning power immediately. It explores brain development, neurological effects of TV, nutrition, stress, and causes of the growing plague of learning disabilities. Author Carla Hannaford.
This book from the NAGC is a practical guide to the process, which includes an overview of research on gifted education, establishing a philosophy, vision, mission, and goals, selecting students, planning curriculum, attending to business matters and evaluating the school’s effectiveness.
The original Son-Rise (1976) described the family trauma of the author, his wife Samahria and their son Raun, who had been diagnosed as autistic, mentally retarded and untreatable. Rather than relegating Raun to permanent institutionalization, the Kaufmans designed a program of their own, which provided intensive therapy on a rigorous schedule that changed all of their lives. Did Raun continue to progress? In this book, that question is answered not only by the parents and extended family but also by Raun himself, now a college student and a participant in the family's educational foundation, The Option Institute and Fellowship.
One day Sophie comes home from school to find two questions in her mail: Who are you? and Where does the world come from? Before she knows it, she is enrolled in a correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre and beyond, with a mysterious philosopher. But Sophie is receiving a separate batch of equally unusual letters. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up in Sophie’s world? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must make use of the philosophy she is learning. But the truth is more complicated than she could have imagined. This unique book combines a comprehensive history of western philosophy intertwined with compelling mystery, experienced through the life and learning of a 14-year-old Norwegian schoolgirl.
This guide is aimed at saving time by thoroughly translating legal regulations so educators can fully focus on the services their students need. Allan Osborne and Charles Russo touch on the relevant topics of court decisions surrounding student placement, legal definitions of parental rights and legal requirements of special education students and disciplinary actions.
A comprehensive coverage of human exceptionalities. This author, with a Ph.D. in the areas of human learning, child development, and behavioral disabilities, presents an emphasis on inclusion in this book. There are chapters on transition, multicultural consideration, and use of technology. See pages 315-361 for People who are gifted and talented by Julia Link Roberts.
Mary McHugh writes about her experience growing up with a sibling with a disability, and interviews many other people in the same situation. This is a book for those with disabled siblings. However, it also looks at the attention and time parents spend on a child who is "different", as gifted children can be considered, and how siblings of that child can come to terms with that and build a healthy, special relationship with the sibling.
No one has demonstrated sprezzatura, or the art of effortless mastery, quite like the Italians. From the rise of the Roman calendar and the birth of the first university to the development of modern political science by Niccolo Machiavelli and the creation of the modern orchestra by Claudio Monteverdi, Sprezzatura chronicles fifty great Italian cultural achievements in a series of witty, erudite, and information-packed essays.
Developed through a joint effort between Prufrock Press, Inc. and the National Association for Gifted Children, this book acts as the reference for anyone involved in gifted and talented staff development. Facilitators for gifted programs must be able to plan, implement and evaluate staff-development experiences for a variety of school personnel and support role groups.
Scott Cooper helps parents teach kids how to speak up for themselves more assertively, gently, and effectively. Each chapter, based on the characteristics of a particular bird, uses a wealth of examples and imaginative exercises to give kids the confidence to speak truth to power.
In George Johnson's biography of Nobel Prize-winner Murray Gell-Mann,`we see Gell-Mann as a child prodigy; Gell-Mann entering Yale at fifteen; Gell-Mann the world traveler and master of particle physics.
This book from Julia Roberts and Tracy Inman offers practical strategies that allow all students to learn at appropriately challenging levels and make continuous progress by focusing on their various levels of knowledge and their willingness to learn.
This book covers educational strategies for teaching/homeschooling, focusing on instruction that is responsive to kids' interests and learning needs. It also has an appendixes that includes lists of educational aids, such as books, magazines, and journals, curriculum guides and professional journals.
In this book from Ron Braund and Dana Spears, learn a new parenting approach for your special needs child to be principle-oriented rather than rule-oriented, highly creative, overly sensitive and frustrated. Understand the crucial differences between a strong-willed child and a creative-sensitive child.
A 148 page book that discusses what makes up the world around us in an entertaining question and answer format. The questions are those that kids might ask. They are grouped into topic areas including matter, changes in matter, engineering, food and new materials. Although written for children with a lot of strong visuals, and sparse text, it doesn't sacrifice accuracy to simplify the answers. The explanations are technically correct and all interesting.
Authors, Tina Newman and Robert Sternberg provide the reader with a broader conceptualization of the gifted/LD learner to include students who have gifts in other areas than high IQ and who would benefit from being identified and having their talents nurtured.
In this book, Kevin D. Besnoy, Ph.D takes an in-depth look at the various learning disabilities and difficulties some gifted students face, provides practical tips for accommodating and planning instruction for these students, and gives an overview of federal law related to this population.
This book seeks to define, understand, and enhance the talents of extraordinary individuals. The author discusses the social and historical forces that shapes the conceptualization and nurturing of gifted talent. The chapters go in depth about the perspectives-psychological, sociological, biological, and anthropological of the emergence of talent.
Jane Piirto designed this book to cover both the characteristics of gifted students and to present important information on how to teach them It contains the latest results of federal research projects, suggestions for inclusion, and definitions of who is gifted and talented.
This Gifted Child Today reader, by Susan Johnsen and James Kendrick, covers some of the most important issues facing gifted and talented girls during their school years, from elementary school through college. Included are specific chapters on counseling and classroom strategies for help ensure these students' future success.
"The late Dorothy DeLay taught violin at Juilliard for more than 50 years, and a list of her pupils - from Itzhak Perlman and Kennedy to Midori and Sarah Chang - reads like a who's who of the violin world. For more than 10 years, the author was granted access to DeLay's classes at Juilliard and the Aspen School, allowing her to craft this fascinating book that is both an exploration of the mysteries of teaching and learning and a feast of anecdotes about an extraordinary woman." (Amazon.com) Click here to read a review of this book.
This book has been the definitive guide to meeting the learning needs of gifted students in the mixed-abilities classroom—without losing control, causing resentment, or spending hours preparing extra materials.