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10 Social & Emotional Needs of the Gifted

Although we often define gifted students by their intelligence, their unique social and emotional needs are often a surprising challenge. As a gifted kid myself, I knew nothing about these common issues nor did my parents. I wonder if the teachers in my gifted program even knew? By having a better understanding of gifted students’ needs, we can better serve as their teachers and mentors. Here are a few articles addressing some specific social-emotional needs of gifted learners. Table Of Contents First, Just Fix Instruction The easiest social-emotional win is to simply make sure students’ brains are being fed appropriately. As a teacher, just getting better at teaching was my biggest win. Onto some specific, possibly surprising, needs. They Doubt Themselves Highly-praised students can suffer from Impostor Syndrome, doubting that they’re as great as other people think. Challenges Don’t Come Until College! Everything’s easy for gifted kids… until it isn’t! Advanced Here, But Not There Related:  Gifted Education History and Characteristics of Gifted Learners

eleves_différents Dans nos classes nous rencontrons des élèves parfois un peu "différents de la norme". Certains sont repérables facilement d'autres beaucoup moins. Dans cette rubrique vous trouverez des informations concernant les enfants précoces, les enfants présentant des troubles spécifiques du langage oral et écrit (dyslexie, dyspraxie, etc...) les enfants ayant des troubles de l'attention, les enfants présentant un handicap moteur ou cérébral (trisomiques, autistes, malvoyants, malentendants, etc...), les enfants présentant d'autres troubles (épileptie, spasmophilie...), les enfants gauchers encore trop souvent malmenés par des méthodes d'enseignement pour droitiers sans oublier les enfants victimes de maltraitances graves. Nous pouvons éviter ou du moins limiter le naufrage scolaire de certains de ces enfants, nous pouvons aider ces élèves différents. Quelques outils pédagogiques : les élèves à besoins particuliers le plus célèbre ...

Gifted Children and Language Development One characteristic of gifted children is advanced language ability, which means these children reach developmental milestones relating to language earlier than developmental charts would indicate. This means that gifted children tend to talk earlier, have larger vocabularies, and use longer sentences than non-gifted children. How can parents tell if their child's language development is advanced? A first step is to look at typical language developmental milestones. In other words, it's key to understand how many words a child is expected to say at various ages, such as at 12 months, 16 months, 18 months, and older. A second step is to look at what advanced speech is. Language Development Milestones Here is what to expect at different ages from infancy until school age in a typically developing child (one who is not advanced or delayed in language development). First Year At 18 Months At 2 Years At 3 Years At 4 Years At 5 Years Early Language Development Advanced Vocabulary A Word From Verywell

Overexcitability and the Gifted Overexcitability and the Gifted by Sharon Lind A small amount of definitive research and a great deal of naturalistic observation have led to the belief that intensity, sensitivity and overexcitability are primary characteristics of the highly gifted. OVEREXCITABILITIES Overexcitabilities are inborn intensities indicating a heightened ability to respond to stimuli. PSYCHOMOTOR OVEREXCITABILITY Psychomotor OE is a heightened excitability of the neuromuscular system. Allow time for physical or verbal activity, before, during, and after normal daily and school activities-these individuals love to “do” and need to “do.” SENSUAL OVEREXCITABILITY Sensual OE is expressed as a heightened experience of sensual pleasure or displeasure emanating from sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing (Dabrowski & Piechowski, 1977; Piechowski, 1979, 1991). Show how to find the answers to questions. EMOTIONAL OVEREXCITABILITY Emotional OE is often the first to be noticed by parents.

Teaching the Gifted and Talented: 33 Websites Where You Can Find Good Resources I wish the Internet was available to me as a kid in elementary school. In New York City, where I attended kindergarten through sixth grade, they called the gifted and talented class "SP". I remember being put into a class to learn French, but very little else. I figured out how ahead I was only when I entered junior high school in New Jersey. The French language I had studied for three years allowed me to coast through French class for the next four years. LESSON PLANS41 Ways to Go Beyond the Book Report Edsitement- from the National Endowment for the Humanities Gifted and Talented Education Lesson Plans Helpful Sites for Gifted Students Lesson Plan Resources- from Davidson GiftedMrs.

Soutenir les enfants surdoués Formation Coaching Education pourquoi faudrait-il aider les enfants surdoués?Myriam GOLDWASSER - orthophoniste DE– psychologueDESS DEA de Linguistique générale et appliquée. Membre de MENSA France – Ancienne élève de l’Ecole Normale de ParisLewinson97@]bezeqint.net 0097236290321 téléphone et fax Introduction Comme le précise Jean Charles Terrassier (ANPEIP) dans son livre "Les enfants surdoués ou la précocité embarrassante"ESF95 (1), "La question des enfants surdoués est l'un de ces secteurs de la réalité qui, trop dérangeants, subissent un déni. Celle des enfants surdoués en échec scolaire, un double déni. Si l'on en croit Arielle Adda, psychologue de Mensa France et auteur du livre "de l'enfant doué" chez Solar(3), il y a bien corrélation entre supériorité intellectuelle évaluée au WISCIII et échec scolaire pour de nombreux enfants.Ceux-ci présenteraient des difficultés d'intégration liées au surdouement. Ä Statistique sur 300 parents. L'école non plus ne comprend pas l'enfant surdoué : - Qu'est-ce qu'enseigner ?

Jacob Javits Gifted & Talented Students Education Act The Jacob Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act (Javits) was first passed by Congress in 1988 as part of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and was most recently reauthorized through the Every Student Succeeds Act to support the development of talent in U.S. schools. The Javits Act, which is the only federal program dedicated specifically to gifted and talented students, does not fund local gifted education programs. Funding for Javits Program - Federal Fiscal Year 2019 (October 1, 2018–September 30, 2019) The Administration proposed cutting Javits for fiscal year 2019 (FY19). Congress voted to provide the Javits program $12 million for FY19, the same amount of funding received in 2018. In calendar year 2017, the U.S. In March 2019, the Administration proposed cutting Javits for federal fiscal year 2020 (FY20). NAGC released a statement opposing these cuts. Advocates should stay engaged with the Legislative Action Network for the latest updates. Background on Javits Act

Using Bibliotherapy with Gifted Children - Unwrapping the Gifted Hopefully we’ve all had that experience of reading a book that powerfully “spoke” to us, a book whose characters we could relate to, and whose struggles and triumphs we identified with. Taking this experience a step farther is the strategy of bibliotherapy, the process of helping the reader learn about and cope with any social or emotional struggles or developmental needs by identifying with a character in a book who shares a similar struggle or need. The reading is typically followed up by discussion with a trusted adult. Bibliotherapy of course can be done with all students, particularly students who might be experiencing a divorce in the family, a learning disability, adoption, etc. Today I want to talk a bit about using developmental bibliotherapy specifically with gifted students. A fair amount has been written already (see links at the bottom of this post) about what bibliotherapy is and why it's important to do with gifted students. * Who in the book do you identify with and why?

Beyond Talent and Smarts: Why Even Geniuses Struggle Big Ideas Culture Teaching Strategies Flickr:Bunchesandbits “The struggle with writing is over.” That message, written on a Post-It note and affixed to his computer, brings the novelist Philip Roth great relief and contentment these days, according to a profile published earlier this week in the New York Times. Fans of Roth’s books—which include Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy’s Complaint, The Human Stain, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral—may be surprised to learn that he regarded writing as a struggle at all. His words flowed so easily on the page, and his books arrived with such frequency in the stores: at times, close to one every year. Americans have a complicated relationship with this kind of relentless striving. psychologists Mahzarin Banaji and Chia-Jung Tsay applied a scientific lens to the phenomenon, gathering a group of professional musicians as subjects. Take it from Philip Roth, who’s spent a lifetime laboring to write perfect sentences. Related

Enfants "surdoués" Why students in poverty are under-identified in gifted programs : aha! Process April 24, 2015 Published by Ruby Payne Conversations I have been a part of or overheard: “We would like to identify more minority and poor students, but they just don’t qualify. They do not meet our criteria.” “We did identify several minority and poor students, but they dropped out of the program within six weeks. “We have worked so hard to get more high school students in the AP program; however, they simply will not participate. If you have heard these comments or made them yourself, you are not alone. There is a large misunderstanding between being gifted and being an achiever or having an advantaged background. What are these characteristics? Other identification mechanisms almost always use: Test scores (heavy emphasis on vocabulary and acquired knowledge)Teacher recommendation (the research is very inaccurate; peer recommendation tends to be more accurate – see identification items in Removing the Mask)Grades (very dependent on the student’s external resources) Ruby K. Save

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