| Description |
ix, 100 pages : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. Who Are the Gifted and Talented? -- 2. Programming and Curriculum Development in Gifted Education -- 3. Perfectionism and Social Emotional Development -- 4. Time Management, Homework Issues, and School-Related Studies (S-R-S) -- 5. Advocacy -- 6. Gifted Children Speak to us |
| Summary |
"Rosemary Callard-Szulgit is a gifted writer with passion and pathways for bringing parents and educators together to create the best possibilities for a meaningful and productive learning experience for all children. In an era when global citizens and world partnerships are essential to discovering and designing our future workforce for a sustainable and harmonious planet, educators must develop creativity and problem-solving abilities in students in order for them to meet the opportunities and challenges of tomorrow."-Jerrie Ueberle, President, Global Interactions, Inc. -- |
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"Special education' acquires a new meaning when applied to the gifted child. Rosemary Callard-Szulgit presents this complex but vital topic in a highly accessibly, conversational style that will influence and support the parents and educators of gifted students as well as the students themselves."-Richard J. Caselli, neurologist, Mayo Clinic -- |
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"Rosemary Callard-Szulgit provides parents and educators with down-to-earth sensible, practical, and professionally sound advice and information. Using a unique question-and-answer format that draws on her years of experience in the field, she offers guidance and direction that speak directly and helpfully to the topics and concerns that are on the minds of many readers. This book will be a valuable resource that you will want to keep readily accessible long after your first reading."-Donald J. Treffinger, president, Center for Creative Learning, Sarasota, Florida; former editor of the Gifted Child Quarterly and Parenting for High Potential -- |
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Parents of gifted students have often experienced the frustration of trying to get an appropriate education for their children in public and private schools. Teachers have equally experienced the frustration of trying to educate these students due to often-competing classroom demands. -- |
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Over the past two decades, Rosemary Callard-Szulgit has accumulated well over one thousand questions asked by parents in her gifted parenting classes, her graduate students of gifted education, education colleagues, and gifted students themselves. This user-friendly book offers commonsense and educationally informative answers to the questions and dilemmas that parents and teachers seek. It will be of interest to all who are looking for a fair and equitable education for the gifted. --Book Jacket |
| Notes |
"A ScarecrowEducation book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Gifted children -- Education.
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Education -- Parent participation.
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| Author |
Szulgit, Mark
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| LC no. |
2002030577 |
| ISBN |
0810845288 alkaline paper |
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0810845296 paperback alkaline paper |
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