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Some of My Best Friends are Books
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 592

Some of My Best Friends are Books

Recommends books for gifted readers that provide insights and coping skills for issues they may face from preschool through high school, featuring more than three hundred titles with brief summaries, organized by reading levels; and includes an index arranged by theme.

Guiding Gifted Readers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Guiding Gifted Readers

School librarian and director of gifted programs, Halsted provides a veritable gold mine on promoting intellectual growth through guided reading. Hers is a thorough introduction to the emotional and intellectual developmental needs and reading patternsof gifted children and to current research on bibliotherapy. She outlines criteria for selecting books for the gifted and furnishes an annotated bibliography of more than 160 books organized first by grade level, then by categories that include identity, getting along with others, and developing imagination. Useful for average children as well.

Re-forming Gifted Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 528

Re-forming Gifted Education

Parents of gifted children need to present schools with educational plans. Current educational programs for gifted students are generally inadequate and do not fit the particular gifted child. Rogers explains various programs for acceleration and enrichment, as well as grouping practices. For each educational option, she delineates what the current research says about the benefit or lack of benefit to which types of gifted children and explains how to arrange each option. This book is a real eye-opener for educators and parents unfamiliar with the full body of research in the field of curriculum for gifted education. ? Types of giftedness ? Types of enrichment ? Gifts versus talents ? Group learning ? Assessment tools ? Independent study ? Parent Inventory for ? Yearly Educational Plans Finding Potential ? Negotiating with schools ? Types of acceleration ? Monitoring progress

Smart Parenting for Smart Kids
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 327

Smart Parenting for Smart Kids

WINNER! Mom's Choice Gold Award for parenting books -- Mom's Choice Awards: The best in family-friendly media "My kid is smart, but..." It takes more than school smarts to create a fulfilling life. In fact, many bright children face special challenges: Some are driven by perfectionism; Some are afraid of effort, because they're used to instant success; Some routinely butt heads with authority figures; Some struggle to get along with their peers; Some are outwardly successful but just don't feel good about themselves. This practical and compassionate book explains the reasons behind these struggles and offers parents do-able strategies to help children cope with feelings, embrace learning, and build satisfying relationships. Drawing from research as well as the authors’ clinical experience, it focuses on the essential skills children need to make the most of their abilities and become capable, confident, and caring people.

Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted
  • Language: en

Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted

To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) offers a collection of 30 essays from leading experts in the gifted community. The essays provide an overview and resource for anyone who works with or cares for the gifted, from gifted adults and teens to parents of gifted children, educators, counselors or medical professionals. Some of the topics include: parenting gifted children living with the intensity that often accompanies giftedness counseling and educating gifted individuals giftedness in diverse communities and special needs populations the role of teachers and other professionals in the lives of the gifted first-person essays describing the ch...

When Abortion Was a Crime
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 433

When Abortion Was a Crime

The definitive history of abortion in the United States, with a new preface that equips readers for what’s to come. When Abortion Was a Crime is the must-read book on abortion history. Originally published ahead of the thirtieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, this award-winning study was the first to examine the entire period during which abortion was illegal in the United States, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century and ending with that monumental case in 1973. When Abortion Was a Crime is filled with intimate stories and nuanced analysis, demonstrating how abortion was criminalized and policed—and how millions of women sought abortions regardless of the law. With this edition, Leslie J...

Creative Home Schooling
  • Language: en

Creative Home Schooling

A guide for parents about home schooling including advice on getting started, adjusting to new roles, designing schoolwork to be fun and educational, social and emotional growth.

A Parent's Guide to Gifted Children
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 824

A Parent's Guide to Gifted Children

Practical guidance in key areas of concern for parents, such as peer relations, siblings, motivation and underachievement, discipline, intensity and stress, depression, education planning, and finding professional help.

Resources in Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Resources in Education

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Growing Up Gifted
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 506

Growing Up Gifted

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