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“Aren’t you supposed to be gifted???”

“Aren’t you supposed to be gifted???”. Social & Emotional Needs of the Gifted Child. Mary’s Story. Substitute teacher in the regular 6 th grade classroom Students have history with sub Lack of mutual trust & respect Mary’s incident H umiliated and told to leave class Comes to GEM room.

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“Aren’t you supposed to be gifted???”

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  1. “Aren’t you supposed to be gifted???” Social & Emotional Needs of the Gifted Child

  2. Mary’s Story • Substitute teacher in the regular 6th grade classroom • Students have history with sub • Lack of mutual trust & respect • Mary’s incident • Humiliated and told to leave class • Comes to GEM room

  3. Enter Mrs. Gifted Teacher, the“rescuer” • Mary tearfully tells her tale • Fear of losing May trip to San Diego • “Gifted kids should know better” • Resolution, or so I thought • Classroom teacher’s opinion

  4. Issues? Have we got issues! • Treating all students with respect & dignity • Empowering students to think for themselves • Knowing when to intervene and when to step back • Training all teachers about the unique characteristics of the gifted child

  5. Characteristics of the Gifted Child • Talent Areas (CogAT) • Verbal • Mathematical-Logical • Visual Spatial • A-syncronization in development • Highly intelligent • Socially-emotionally immature

  6. Characteristics of the Gifted Child • Gifted Instructional Standards (MUSD) • Problem Solving • Communication • Personal Development • Dabrowski’s Theory of Over-Excitabilities • Psychomotor • Sensual • Intellectual • Imaginational • Emotional

  7. What do the experts say? Books: • Teaching Young Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom by Joan Franklin Smutny • Strengthening Your Program for Gifted Students by Dr. Roger Taylor • Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom by Susan Winebrenner

  8. Current Research • Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: Straight Talk by Tracy L. Cross • Current Research on the Social and Emotional Development of Gifted and Talented Students: Good News and Future Possibilities by Sally M. Reis and Joseph S. Renzulli • Patterns of Overexcitabilities in Identified Gifted Students and Their Parents: A Hierarchial Model by Carol L. Tieso

  9. Useful Websites http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/ http://www.arizonagifted.org/ http://www.nagc.org/ http://www.byrdseed.com/ http://www.adifferentplace.org/just4fun.htm http://www.giftedservices.com.au/

  10. Gifted Students: Handle with Care!

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