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Social/Emotional Development: Social Values/Behavior

• Assessment of Gifted Children: Identification

  8 Reasons You Should Label Kids as Gifted

  This article provides a number of justifications for labeling students as gifted.

• Developmental: Adolescence

  Caught in the middle: How to help gifted children survive the middle school years

  This article describes challenges that gifted children in middle school face and what parents can do to help them.

  Parenting Gifted Adolescents

  This article provides parents numerous guidelines on their adoloescents' peer relationships, life skills, social behavior and more.

• Developmental: Twice Exceptional

  Developing Self-Regulation of Learning with 2e Students

  This article covers the role of self-regulation in learning related to 2e students; a four-phased approach to developing self-regulation; steps for achieving greater self-regulation; and more.
  

  Follow the Fear: Anticipating Missteps in Learning to Write

  This article provides information on overcoming the fear of writing.

  Managing life with a challenging child: What to do when your gifted but difficult child is driving you crazy

  Written by Barbara Probst, this article explains the challenges involved with raising "difficult" children. She provides a number of options on how to nourish your child's strengths and discusses the importance of looking at the whole child.

  The Search for Shangri-La: Finding the Appropriate Educational Environment for Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Children, A Parents Guide

  This article provides strategies designed to help parents navigate the convoluted public education system and ultimately find the appropriate educational environment for their child.

  When your child’s second exceptionality is emotional: Looking beyond psychiatric diagnosis

  Written by Barbara Probst, this article covers the second exceptionality typically not thought of when discussing twice-exceptionality - one that is emotional, social or behavioral related.

• Educational Options: Acceleration

  The "Ifs" and "Buts" of Acceleration

  This article by Christy D. McGee, Ed.D. provides answers to a number of frequently asked questions involving acceleration, including social/emotional issues and peer relations.

  The effects of acceleration on the social and emotional development of gifted students

  This article is a book chapter by Lynn Pollins. It discusses studies on acceleration as it relates to the student's social and emotional development. There has never been a study that showed a negative result of acceleration. By contrast, there may even be positive effects to the social and emotional development of accelerants.

• Educational Options: Tips for Teachers

  Effects of Task Difficulty and Teacher Attention on the Off-Task Behavior of High-Ability Students with Behavior Issues

  This study used traditional behavioral assessment procedures to determine whether a functional relationship existed between (a) levels of task difficulty and teacher attention and (b) off-task behavior in 3 students identified as highly able in mathematics who also showed consistent behavior issues. Results indicated that higher rates of off-task behaviors were associated with low attention conditions. Task difficulty did not appear to have a consistent relationship with student behavior.

• Parenting: Parenting Strategies

  Gifted Students and Screen Time: Davidson Weekly Roundup - June 26, 2020

  A weekly roundup of gifted education news and resources

  Helping Gifted Students Cope with Anxiety, Fear, Frustration and Difficult Feelings: Davidson Gifted Weekly Roundup - June 4, 2020

  A weekly roundup of gifted education news and resources.

  How to help keep your kid from being bullied

  Although kids of all ages can be bullied or be bullies themselves, it tends to escalate in the middle-school years. Children often pick on one another verbally or shove and push a weak classmate. Overweight kids are easy targets, as are children who dress, speak, or act differently than others. It's a shame that our culture allows and perhaps even encourages these types of behaviors, but it's still a reality in many of our school grounds, classrooms, and neighborhoods. In another excerpt from her book Laying Down the Law, Dr. Ruth Peters offers tactics to deal with bullies, at home and in school.

  Parenting the Creatively Gifted Child

  This article provides a number of ways that parents can help their creative gifted students be comfortable in their own skins.

  Paving the Path to Meaningful Engagement for High-Potential Children

  This article describes the concept of "meaningful engagement" and how to incorporate it into a plan for gifted students.

  Tips for parents of gifted children: What most parents wish they had known

  In this article, Dr. Gail Post provides some general guidelines many parents of gifted children may have wished they had known.

  Tips for Parents: Balancing Mind with Heart

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by John Kroeker. It incudes a reading list and information on rhythmic breath, exercise and more.
  

  What helps you plan without a plan? Saying “YES!”: Davidson Weekly Roundup - August 21, 2020

  A weekly roundup of gifted education topics and resources.

• Parenting: Tips for Parents

  Tips for Parents: Anger Management for Your Gifted Child

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Kiesa Kay, who provides advice on approaching anger management in relation to gifted students.

  Tips for Parents: Anxiety, Sensitivities and Social Struggles among Profoundly Gifted Kids

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Megan Foley Nicpon in which she discusses how the concepts of anxieties, sensitivities, and social struggles can manifest within profoundly gifted kids and identifies ways to positively intervene.

  Tips for Parents: Attaining Health and Well-being Through Balance

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Patricia Gatto-Walden, in which she discusses how you can strive to establish the foundations of health and well-being in your family.

  Tips for Parents: Beyond Overexcitabilities: A Crash Course in Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Lisa Rivero. She highlights aspects of psychologist Kazimierz Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration, the role of overexcitabilities in the theory, Dabrowski’s suggestions for supporting young people with what he termed “developmental potential,” and a list of resources for further reading and study.

  Tips for Parents: Building the Confidence and Skills Needed to Battle Peer Pressure

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Kara McGoey, who provides strategies on coping with peer pressure.

  Tips for Parents: Cartesian Splits and Chinese Splits

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Stephen Balzac, in which he discusses how many gifted children and adults experience a Cartesian Split: skilled and comfortable in intellectual pursuits, they find themselves awkward and frustrated when attempting physical activities such as sports or martial arts.

  Tips For Parents: Connections Among The Gifted - Helping GT Children Make and Keep Friends

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Christine Fonseca, who provides advice on helping gifted students understand social dynamics.

  Tips for Parents: Cool, Calm and Collected: Managing Behavior in the Classroom

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Kara McGoey, who reveals effective strategies in helping gifted students manage their behavior, especially in the classroom.

  Tips for Parents: Coping with Peer Pressure in a World of Growing Up Too Fast

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Sylvia Rimm, who provides a number of strategies to help gifted students deal with peer pressure.

  Tips for Parents: Depression and Emotional Intensities

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Tracy Cross, in which he describes a number of characteristics associated with gifted students who have emotional intensities.

  Tips for Parents: Developing a Feeling Vocabulary

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Sharon Lind, who provides a list of tips and words to use in developing a vocabulary of feeling words. Advice is targeted at parents of emotionally intense children. The goal is to offer them tools for understanding and expressing their emotional state.

  Tips for Parents: Emotional Intelligence - Raising a Child Who Can Think and Act in Intelligent Ways

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Paula Wilkes, who discusses a number of topics related to intelligence.

  Tips for Parents: Emotionally Intense Children

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Sharon Lind, who provides specific strategies for helping gifted people to "recognize, cope with, cherish and take advantage of their emotional intensity."

  Tips for Parents: Everything in Moderation

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Marybeth Hicks. She assesses the causes of extreme behavior and habits, and brainstorms about how to regroup and infuse our families and homes with a greater appreciation for the benefits of moderation in all things.

  Tips for Parents: Family Meetings - Why they are important and How-To (so much more than checking-in and stating problems)

  The Tips for Parents article is based upon a seminar hosted by Catherine Gruener. She provided resources, education, and guidance in application of Family Meetings, using Adlerian approaches with a Positive Discipline focus (Lott & Nelsen, 2012; Nelsen, 2006). The following information is a summary of the key issues from the seminar.

  Tips for Parents: Finding the Extroverted Side of You – Introverted Children

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Christine Fonseca, who provides information for parents of introverts to help even the most introverted among us find their voice and share their talents with the world.

  Tips for Parents: From School to Homeschool at Three Stages

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Suki Wessling, who addresses many of the concerns parents often have about transitioning their students from school to homeschool.

  Tips for Parents: Gifted Kids and Groupwork

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Stephen Balzac, who takes a look at the process of groupwork and how it applies to gifted students.

  Tips for Parents: GROWING UP GIFTED - Issues, Concerns, and the Importance of Self-Esteem

  This Tips for Parents article is from two 2010 seminars hosted by Judy Galbraith titled “GROWING UP GIFTED - Issues, Concerns, and the Importance of Self-Esteem."

  Tips for Parents: Guiding your Student to Fit in While Continuing to Stand Out

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Susan Paynter, who describes how to tap into gifted kids’ interests and analytical skills to support their social minds.

  Tips for Parents: Helping Gifted Children Be Smart About Dealing With Authority

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Eileen Kennedy-Moore, PhD., who provides advice on helping gifted students deal with authority figures.

  Tips for Parents: Helping Gifted Children Handle Cooperation and Competition

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Eileen Kennedy-Moore, PhD. She highlights some of the key challenges that gifted children face related to cooperation and competition, and she offers practical ways that parents can help.

  Tips for Parents: Helping GT Kids Understand Their Emotions through Effective Emotional Coaching

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Christine Fonseca, who provides advice on helping gifted students identify and deal with their emotions.

  Tips for Parents: Helping your Child Develop Communication Competence

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Gwen Hullman, who touches on key points of communication competence - including family communication style and personality factors.

  Tips for Parents: Helping Your Child with Social or Performance Anxiety

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Nadia Webb. She offers tips on how parents can help their student cope with social phobia and anxiety.

  Tips for Parents: Helping Your Gifted Child Cope with Parental Divorce

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Kiesa Kay, who provides advice on helping gifted students through parental divorce.

  Tips for Parents: Helping Your Gifted Child or Teen Cope With Death and Chronic Illness

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Kiesa Kay, who provides coping skills for gifted teens and children dealing with death or illness.

  Tips for Parents: How Gifted Children Impact the Family

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Sylvia Rimm. She discusses that every child influences other children in the family, but because gifted children often attract so much attention and require extra resources, they can cause some special pressures for siblings, parents and even other relatives.

  Tips for Parents: How Level of Giftedness, Gender, and Personality Affect School Behavior and Learning

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Deborah Ruf, who provides a step-by-step guide for parents to assess their children’s level and profile of giftedness, how they learn and view the process of learning, and how their children’s gender impacts the effect of planning for their children’s best educational placement.
  

  Tips For Parents: How Students See Their Giftedness and Why It Matters: A Different View of “Mindset.”

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Thomas Greenspon, who provides parents a look into how students view their own giftedness.

  Tips for Parents: How to Build a Geek Media Shelter

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Marybeth Hicks. The seminar consisted of a discussion centered on sheltering children from the influence of media and pop culture.

  Tips for Parents: How to Effectively Deal with Bullying at School: Skills Training for Students and Parents

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Tom Letson, M.A. L.P.C. He offers these Frequently Asked Questions to help parents deal with situations in which their child may be bullied.

  Tips for Parents: Hygiene, Hormones and Happiness

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Nadia Webb, who sums up a number of key points about teens and hygiene, hormones and happiness.

  Tips for Parents: Improving Social Skills in Children with ADHD

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Melanie Crawford, who provides advice on improving the social skills of children with ADHD.
  

  Tips For Parents: Intensity, Anxiety & Depression - The Dark Side of Giftedness

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Tracy Cross, who provides advice for parents of students exhibiting traits of anxiety and depression.

  Tips for Parents: Is Boarding School a Good Consideration for my Gifted or 2E Student?

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Heidi Molbak. She addresses the many considerations a family will have when evaluating whether boarding school might be a good option for a gifted or 2e student.

  Tips for Parents: Keep the Joy In and the Pressure Out

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Rosanne Daryl Thomas during which she addressed the need for balance in the lives of Young Scholars and their families. In addition, she outlined strategies for keeping the joy in life and learning while managing pressures and keeping expectations at a reasonable level.

  Tips for Parents: Leadership Skills for Gifted Kids

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Stephen R. Balzac of 7 Steps Ahead. He highlights a number of helpful tips on leadership and decision-making.

  Tips for Parents: Making New Connections: Digging Deeper into the practice of Positive Discipline Parenting

  This Tips for Parents article is based upon a seminar hosted by Catherine Gruener. She provided resources, tips and guidance in application of Positive Discipline parenting, using Adlerian approaches with a Positive Discipline focus (Lott & Nelsen, 2012; Nelsen, 2006).

  Tips for Parents: Mendel, Escher Bach - Giftedness and Family Dynamics

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Aimee Yermish, who facilitated an online seminar on how giftedness and family dynamics can intertwine. This is an area where there are no easy answers; she advocates a thoughtful approach to building awareness of how one’s own family and its stories have developed over multiple generations.

  Tips for Parents: Multiple Potentiality and Making Difficult Choices

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Dale Stuart, who helps parents understand multi-potentiality in their gifted children and the process of making difficult choices when their child is interested in, or shows potential in, many different areas.

  Tips for Parents: Nurturing Verbal Ability in Gifted Learners

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Joyce VanTassel-Baska. She provides information on how verbally talented learners can benefit from opportunities in all aspects of the verbal arts.

  Tips for Parents: Parenting the Gifted Child

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Edward Amend, who provides a number of ideas on how to foster relationships, improve discipline and increase motivation for your gifted child.

  Tips for Parents: Positive Boundaries - Where to Draw the Lines

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Kiesa Kay, who provides guidelines on positive boundaries.

  Tips for Parents: Positive Discipline for Gifted Children

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Jane Nelson, who provides advice related to the positive discipline of gifted students.

  Tips for Parents: Promoting Achievement through a Growth Mindset

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Del Siegle, who describes motivation and how it relates to achievement.

  Tips for Parents: Q&A on the Practice and Tools of Positive Discipline with Profoundly Gifted Children and Families

  The Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Catherine Gruener. She provided an open forum question and answer session on using Positive Discipline approaches with profoundly gifted children.

  Tips for Parents: Questions and Answers about Food Selectivity

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Monica Andis, the Program Manager of the Nutrition and Dietary Services at the West Virginia University Center for Excellence in Disabilities. Questions are addressed for parents seeking information about their highly gifted children's eating issues and food sensitivities.

  Tips for Parents: Raising Children Who Are as Good as They Are Smart

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Marybeth Hicks. She provides insight on how to raise a principled child and tips for moral development.

  Tips for Parents: Raising Gifted Children Who Think for Themselves

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Paula Wilkes, who outlines several characteristics of independent, self-directed learners.

  Tips for Parents: Raising Gifted Girls - Special Considerations

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Vula Baliotis. She provides specific advice and guidelines on raising gifted girls.

  Tips for Parents: Real Life Habits for Success: The Way to Set & Achieve Your Goals

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Juli Scala, who provides advice on setting and achieving goals.

  Tips for Parents: Self-concept and Self-esteem Regarding Gifted Learners

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Barbara Clark, who offers strategies to use with gifted children to help them accept themselves as they are, to provide a place where they feel they can be themselves, and to try to help their educators to understand them as well.

  Tips for Parents: Self-Esteem of the Gifted

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Michelle Muratori about self-esteem and gifted students.

  Tips for Parents: Social and Emotional Development in Gifted Children

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Nadia Webb. She discussed the social/emotional issues that parents of gifted children deal with regularly.

  Tips for Parents: Social Experiences of Gifted Adolescents

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Mary Ann Swiatek. She addresses issues raised by parents on several topics, including acceleration, personality characteristics and developmental tasks.

  Tips for Parents: Socialization and the Highly Gifted Child

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Jim Delisle, who covers several strategies for dealing with socialization issues of highly gifted young children. Delisle draws upon his own experience as well as those of parents.

  Tips for Parents: Tailoring Positive Discipline for the 2E Child

  The Tips for Parents article is based upon a seminar hosted by Catherine Gruener. She provided a number of resources, tips, and guidance in understanding and tailoring some of the key foundations of Positive Discipline (Lott & Nelsen, 2012) with parents of twice-exceptional children.

  Tips for Parents: That Should Only Take Ten Minutes

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Stephen R. Balzac of 7 Steps Ahead. He highlights a number of helpful tips on scheduling and time management.

  Tips for Parents: The Art of Preventing and Managing Disruptive Behavior

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Kara E. McGoey. She provides eight tips on dealing with disruptive behavior among gifted students.

  Tips for Parents: The Gifted Child in the Family Context

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Michelle Muratori. She provides advice on how to best interact with gifted students from the family perspective.

  Tips for Parents: Twice exceptional students - Who are they and what do they need?

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Edward R. Amend. He describes the complex needs of 2e students.

  Tips for Parents: Understanding and Promoting Emotional Regulation

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Kara McGoey, who provides advice on how to encourage healthy social/emotional development through emotional regulation.

• Social/Emotional: Gender Specific

  Nurturing Gifted Girls’ Self-Concept and Academics at Home

  This article provides advice on helping gifted girls from home: encouraging your gifted daughter to take higher-level classes from which she might normally shy away; finding a mentor; seeking out peers; using bibliotherapy to model positive influences; and more.

• Social/Emotional: General

  A gifted person's guide to therapy

  In this article, Dr. Gail Post provides advice on what those who are gifted should look for when searching for a therapist.

  A Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Approach to the Emotional Problems of Exceptionally and Profoundly Gifted Adolescents and Adults: A Psychiatrist’s Experience

  Jerald Grobman described a group of exceptionally gifted adolescents and young adults who had become underachievers because of their inability to resolve certain conflicts that accompanied each stage of their development.

  Being Me and Fitting In: The Dilemma of Differentness

  In this article, Thomas Greenspon discusses the impact giftedness can have on children's social behavior.

  Colors

  This article is an op-ed piece by Dr. Nicholas Colangelo addressing the "Indigo children" movement. Colangelo defines the movement and urges colleagues not to get involved. He warns about the detrimental effect on children of giving them an aura of being "beyond the rules."

  Dabrowski’s Theory and Existential Depression in Gifted Children and Adults

  When people undergo a great trauma or other unsettling event—they have lost a job or a loved one dies, for example—their understanding of themselves or of their place in the world often disintegrates, and they temporarily "fall apart," experiencing a type of depression referred to as existential depression.

  Don’t Always Choose Academics! Why Sports Participation May Be Just as Important

  This article describes the importance of non-academic activities for gifted students.

  Emotional intensity in gifted children

  This article by Lesley Sword explores and explains emotional intensity in gifted individuals. A number of traits of emotionally intensity are described. Strategies for parents are suggested to help their emotionally intense gifted children to accept themselves as they are.

  Factors in the social adjustment and social acceptability of extremely gifted children

  This article by Miraca Gross discusses the lack of differentiation between the levels or degrees of gifted individuals by professionals in gifted education.

  Feelings and attitudes of gifted students

  This article discusses gifted high school students and their self-perceptions. Overall, the study finds that, contrary to most research in this area, these students felt very well adjusted. Teachers agreed with the students in all areas except that the students rated themselves as happier than their teachers rated them. Authored by Tiffany Field, Jeff Harding, Regina Yando, Ketty Gonzalez, David Lasko, Debra Bendell and Carol Marks.

  Fostering The Social And Emotional Development Of Gifted Children Through Guided Viewing Of Film

  Teachers of gifted elementary school students seek strategies appropriate for fostering healthy social and emotional development in children. The authors propose guided viewing of film as a strategy through which teachers and counselors may assist young gifted students in gaining helpful insights to deal with problems they face. This article presents a theoretical foundation for this approach, a variety of strategies for implementation, and a collection of films appropriate for use with gifted students.

  Gifted children: Emotionally immature or emotionally intense?

  This article by Lesley Sword examines the emotional intensity of gifted children in terms of the overexcitabilities that are a component of Dabrowski’s theory of emotional development. Descriptions of emotional intensity are given together with examples of behaviour associated with emotional intensity that are often mistakenly perceived as emotional immaturity. It concludes that emotional intensity in the gifted is essential to the learning process and that gifted children need understanding and support to accept their rich inner experiences and value emotional intensity as a strength.

  Identity development in gifted children: Moral sensitivity

  "The asynchrony of gifted children, especially in the area of moral sensitivity, brings special issues to consider. These issues need to be resolved in order to develop good internal boundaries as well as appropriate interpersonal interactions." This article by Deirdre Lovecky explores the topic of gifted children who are very empathic and it gives examples of how this trait emerges in children. It also discusses ways to help gifted children handle this empathy so that it does not overwhelm them.

  Overexcitability and the highly gifted child

  This article by Sharon Lind explains how the concept of overexcitability, from the work of Kazimierz Dabrowski, relates to some highly gifted individuals. The author identifies several types of overexcitability. Also offered are strategies for dealing with each type of overexcitability.

  Resilience and Gifted Children

  In this article, Barbara Kerr, Ph.D., examines resilience and how it relates to gifted students.

  Self-Mutilation and Gifted Children

  There are many similarities in the development of current students and those from previous generations. However, there are significant differences in the experiences of every generation of students.

  The pursuit of excellence or the search for intimacy? The forced-choice dilemma of gifted youth

  This article by Miraca Gross discusses the feeling that many gifted children have that they must choose between social acceptance and intellectual ability. This article proposes that programs that group students based on ability rather than age will not force such a socio-psychological issue upon the gifted young person. She also cites research supporting this point of view.

  Vulnerabilities of highly gifted children

  This article by Wendy Roedell points out that although good social adjustment, emotional maturity, and healthy self-concepts are realized by many intellectually gifted children, this same group of children is uniquely vulnerable to a variety of adjustment difficulties. Problems of uneven development, perfectionism, adult expectations, intense sensitivity, self-definition, alienation, inappropriate environments and role conflict are explored. Roedell concludes that the degree of success at these adjustments depends to a great extent on environmental support.

  What to say to your gifted child...about being gifted

  This article provides parents advice on explaining giftedness to students.

  When it comes to bullying, there are no boundaries

  American policymakers have been urgently seeking solutions to school bullying and violence in recent years, but the issue had been receiving attention in many other countries long before it hit the U.S. spotlight. This article by Marianne D. Hurst discusses how "nations try various strategies to eradicate such behavior in schools."

• Social/Emotional: LGBTQ

  Gifted LGBTQ Social-Emotional Issues

  This article takes a look at gifted LGBTQ (G/LGBTQ) students and the social/emotional implications that gifted educators must now consider.

• Social/Emotional: Peer Relations

  Social/Emotional Needs: The Rage of Gifted Students

  Written by Tracy Cross, this article examines the unique social and emotional perspectives of gifted students.

• Support Materials: Book Reviews

  Quiet Kids: Help Your Introverted Child Succeed in an Extroverted World

  BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This book review gives a concise view of what the reader can learn from author Christine Fonseca in her book, Quiet Kids: Help Your Introverted Child Succeed in an Extroverted World.

  Raise Your Child's Social IQ: Stepping Stones to People Skills for Kids

  BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - A Davidson Institute Family Consultant gives a quick overview of this book by Cathi Cohen. Quizzes at the beginning of each chapter help guide the reader to answers that apply to their particular situation. This book is a valuable tool for any parent wanting to avoid raising a child with a "social learning disability."

  The Gifted Kids' Survival Guide: For Ages 10 and Under

  BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - The Gifted Kids’ Survival Guide: For Ages 10 and Under by Judy Galbraith is a book that can easily be read from cover to cover in one sitting. It is also a resource parents can lead their children to time and again to help them learn to handle difficult situations

  The Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Kids: Understanding and Guiding Their Development

  BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This review explains why The Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Kids: Understanding and Guiding Their Development by Dr. Tracy Cross is a helpful tool for educators, counselors and anyone looking to recognize and respect the relationships between students' emotional, social and academic needs.

  The Social and Emotional Needs of Gifted Individuals (Chapt. 7 in Once Upon a Mind: The Stories and Scholars of Gifted Education)

  BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This is a review of Chapter 7 of Jim Delisle's book Once Upon a Mind: The Stories and Scholars of Gifted Education. This chapter focuses on the social and emotional needs of gifted young people. The author wraps up the chapter with suggestions for meeting the emotional needs of the profoundly gifted population.

  When Gifted Kids Don’t Have All The Answers: How to Meet Their Social and Emotional Needs

  BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - When Gifted Kids Don't Have All The Answers by Jim Delisle and Judy Galbraith explains what giftedness means, how gifted kids are identified, and how we might improve the identification process. Then they take a close-up look at gifted kids from the inside out-their social and emotional needs. Topics include self-image and self-esteem, perfectionism, multipotential, depression, feelings of "differentness," and stress.

• Support Materials: Interviews

  Interview with Christine Fonseca about Introverted Gifted Students

  The following Q&A about introverted, gifted students was written by Christine Fonseca, an award-winning author, parenting and life coach, speaker, consultant and school psychologist. She discusses temperament and how these traits present themselves in school and classroom settings, and how temperament impacts peer relations.
  

  Interview with Janette Boazman on character development and the differences in cognitive development between boys and girls

  The following Q&A on character development was written by Janette Boazman, Ph.D., an assistant professor of education and the chair of education at the University of Dallas. Her research focuses on the academic and psychological factors that lead to academic and career success, and to the personal well-being of the gifted and talented in K-12 schools, college, and across the lifespan.

• Talent Development: Creativity

  From Identification to Ivy League: Nurturing Multiple Interests and Multi-Potentiality in Gifted Students

  This article offers advice on how to develop and nurture multiple interests and multi-potentiality among gifted students.

• Talent Development: Strategies & Tools

  Building Connections: Developing 21st Century Self-Management Skills for Gifted Students

  This article highlights a number of self-management skills essential for success in the 21st century. These skills are richly connected together to form the tapestry that makes up the 21st century gifted learner.

  Critical and Creative Thinking: The Joy of Learning!

  Step-by-step critical and creative thinking strategies are discussed in this article.

• Talent Development: Summer Programs

  The Time of Our Lives: How Summer Camp Tames Transition Trouble

  This article describes how summer camps can be helpful for students as they transition to the the college years and the accompanying hardships of that process.