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Support: Mentoring

• Developmental: Twice Exceptional

  Parenting Post-Secondary Students with Disabilities: Becoming the Mentor, Advocate, and Guide Your Young Adult Needs

  This article provides parents advice on assisting adolescents with disabilities.

• Parenting: Tips for Parents

  Tips for Parents: Finding a Mentor for your Gifted Child

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by the Davidson Institute. It provides tips for parents on finding a mentor for their gifted child, including things to keep in mind when your child is seeking a mentorship and six steps to establishing an effective mentorship.

  Tips for Parents: How to Get a Mentor for You and Your Child

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Ellen A. Ensher, who provides parents ideas on getting a mentor for their gifted student.

• Talent Development: Creativity

  Exploring and Encouraging Creativity

  This article provides advice on encouraging creativity in gifted students.

• Talent Development: Mentoring

  Applying a mentor model for young mathematically talented students

  This article explains how to apply a mentor model in math. The model is explained in step by step detail and outcomes are explored as well as examples provided. Authored by Ann Lupkowski, Susan Assouline and Julian Stanley.

  Career Planning for Gifted and Talented Youth

  This article by Barbara Kerr offers guidelines in planning career paths for gifted and talented youth. Possible intervention strategies are presented for elementary, junior high, senior high, and college/young adult ages. The article is divided into three sections -- multiple possibilities, focused interests, and planning with special populations -- for career planning strategies.

  Gaining Wisdom by Giving Back: Helping Gifted Young People Help Others

  Co-authored by noted gifted expert Jim Delisle and the Davidson Institute's own Erik Schwinger, this article takes a look at the Davidson Institute's Ambassador Program and provides information on mentoring and giving back.

  Mentor relationships and gifted learners

  This article by Sandra Berger explains what a mentor means, guidelines, questions to ask students, and questions to ask mentors. From th author: "One of the most valuable experiences a gifted student can have is exposure to a mentor who is willing to share personal values, a particular interest, time, talents, and skills. When the experience is properly structured and the mentor is a good match for the student, the relationship can provide both mentor and student with encouragement, inspiration, new insights, and other personal rewards."

  Mentoring: An Interview with a Davidson Fellow’s Mentor – Dr. Woodbury and 2010 Davidson Fellow Laureate Kyle Loh

  This article, in Q & A format, outlines responses by Dr. Woodbury of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, about his mentor relationship with 2010 Davidson Fellow Laureate Kyle Loh, including how they met each other, successful tips for working with a mentor and other advice. This article also includes a letter from mentee Kyle Loh about working with Dr. Woodbury and how he helped Kyle achieve his goals.

  Mentoring: Interview with 2004 Davidson Fellow Harish Khandrika about how he worked with his Mentor, Astrophysicist Dr. Richard Rothschild

  This article, in Q&A format, includes responses by 2004 Davidson Fellow Harish Khandrika about his mentor relationship with astrophysicist Dr. Richard Rothschild at the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences (CASS) at the University of California, San Diego, as well as tips for other students seeking for mentors.

  Mentors in math

  This article explores mentor programs for mathematically precocious students. If a student is able to have a mentor for math, he or she can advance beyond their agemates in the subject without having to employ more drastic measures such as grade skipping. Authored by Ann Lupkowski, Susan Assouline and Jennifer Vestal.

  Mentors who make a difference: Dr. Allan Dennis

  This article discusses the "different" approach Dr. Allan Dennis took as a mentor for young students. "Most mentors make time in their schedules to help a young person achieve his or her goals. Dr. Allan Dennis has taken a different approach. He's made a career of creating a nurturing musical environment for students from every background and every level of ability."

  Mentors who make a difference: Ken Ono, Ph.D.

  This short article tells the story of Ken Ono, Ph.D., and how he has helped some bright students by mentoring them. "Ken Ono, Ph.D., a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has devoted a significant portion of his career to mentoring talented, young math students, but Ono says that's not something he set out to do."

  Mentorship of the highly creative

  This article details the positive effects of mentoring on a gifted young man. This particular mentorship lasted four years and involved a high school student and two mentors--one of which who resided on the opposite side of the country. "Educators and parents who look for ways to nurture the growth of gifted young people may profit from Jon's [the student] self-reported perceptions of his mentorship experience, and from the perceptions of the two adults who were so fortunate to cross his path. The triangular mentorship developed some interesting nuances that should prove informative to those interested in supporting future scientists, artists, entrepreneurs, and leaders." Authored by Don Ambrose, Jon Allen and SaraBeth Huntley.

  Thoughts on philanthropy

  This article by Jan Davidson is an excerpt from an address to the parents of the Davidson Young Scholars at the 2001 Reunion Gathering on July 12, 2001. She shares some her personal beliefs about philanthropy. It also includes some advice from the president and co-founder of the Davidson Institute.