Ten Things to Say to Gifted Children

A Guide to Navigating Common Social-emotional and Academic Concerns
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-85242-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

10 Things to Say to Gifted Children is your go-to guide to nurturing bright minds and a sense of growing confidence!

Using short and engaging vignettes, discussion questions, and practical parenting and teaching tips based on decades of research, each easy-to-read chapter dives into key academic and social-emotional issue with which many gifted children struggle, and then provides strategies for how to navigate them. Featuring conversation starters that get at the heart of the issue and “Bridging the Gap” strategies to help parents and teachers become a power team, this book is ideal for anyone who cares about gifted children and wants to promote their healthy academic and social-emotional development.

Whether you are a parent seeking to advocate for your child or a teacher looking to create an enriching classroom environment, this book is a must read you’ll find yourself reaching for again and again.

Zielgruppe

General and Parents

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heilbronner, Nancy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Erziehung in der Familie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogik: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik Hochbegabtenförderung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction  Part 1: Motivating Gifted Students  2. You’ve Got This! Setting the Stage to Motivate Gifted Students  3. Stay in the Struggle: Developing Persistence through Goal-setting and a Growth Mindset  4. It Gets Better If You Try: Managing Students’ Expectations of Success and Failure  Part 2: Promoting Gifted Students’ Interests and Creativity  5. Find Your Passion: Helping Gifted Students Find Their Interests  6. Pick a Path: Helping Students Deal with Multipotentiality  7. Please Color Outside the Lines: Encouraging Creativity in Gifted Students  Part 3: Guiding Students Socially and Emotionally  8. No One is Perfect: Helping Gifted Students Manage Perfectionism  9. Take a Deep Breath: Helping Gifted Students Cope with Anxiety and Fear  10. Do You Have True Friends? Guiding Gifted Students as They Make Friends  Part 4: Becoming an Advocate  11. I’m There for You: Becoming an Advocate for Gifted Students and for Gifted Education  12. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Nancy N. Heilbronner, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the School of Education at Mercy University where she previously served as Interim Dean and Interim Associate Provost. She taught gifted children (grades K-8) for 10 years before earning her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Connecticut. She has authored or co-authored four books and many articles in the field of gifted education and writes from first-hand experience in research, parenting three gifted children, and teaching.