Kurt Vonnegut on why we all feel so inadequate.
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Explore the intricacies of giftedness tests: their importance, accuracy, and impact on identifying and nurturing exceptional talents.
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Giftedness: Myths vs. Reality I'm here to tell you how gifted myths differ from my reality as the parent of a PG and 2E child.
If you’re the parent of a gifted child, then you already know about the difficulties that come along with raising outliers. Maybe your child is intense, struggles with anxiety, has trouble making friends, or is a bit overexcitable. The challenge is real, and it’s often difficult for others to understand. But, it’s really kind of
With this template co-created between Slidesgo and pedagogical experts, you will be able to give a lesson on the important terms within giftedness
Three images I'm using to do a better job explaining giftedness to parents of gifted kids.
This diagram has been floating around for awhile, but I thought it might be helpful for anyone wondering if their kid is on the spectrum and/or has ADHD, or how to make sense of all their contradictions.
"Giftedness" is misunderstood, even among most educators, therapists & pediatric clinicians. It's time to end damaging myths & stereotypes.
My oldest son and youngest daughter both have my tan complexion. The other two are fair like my husband. All four of them boast deep, chocolate eyes like Brian, not the blue I’d hoped they’d inherit from me. When we’re all together, you can see that we’re a family. They’re opinionated, assertive, and loads of
"But... what's wrong with him?" I was sitting across from the counselor we'd been seeing every week for six months, desperation leaking from my eyes and filling the small room with a heaviness we both felt. On the walls were graduate degrees and charts that identified emotions with children's faces, the bookshelves were brimming with
Information about giftedness in children including emotional traits of gifted children, uneven development, signs of giftedness in young children, and how to support your highly sensitive child.
Did you know that there are EIGHT different ways that your students can demonstrate their intelligence?? Think back to your college days and upper level education classes (That’s WAY back for me….Over a decade!) and you might remember an important educational figure named Howard Gardner. Ring any bells? Howard Gardner is the face behind the...
Excuse me? Hi. I’m sorry to bother you, but I had to tell you something. I see you. I see your son, too. I see him, sprawled on the pavement, reading The Hobbit, completely engrossed and unaw…
School was going to be amazing for my son. I just knew it. He was a thinker. A tinkerer. A doer. He loved learning and had an insatiable thirst to know everything about everything. Always asking questions. Always starting a project. Always wowing those he met with his big thoughts. And then school -- and
Regardless of whether or not a student is identified as gifted, Joseph Renzulli’s 3 ring model is an extraordinary framework for understanding learning. In this video I explain the 3-ring conception and how it relates to executive function. It breaks down the 3 elements necessary in order to have “gifted behaviors.” Here’s the model: Love my […]
She cannot get her face any closer to the paper. Her eyes move furtively. Using the rivets on the pads of her fingers, she navigates through the results of the graph. Comparing her three-year-old little girl to other little girls her age feels more like a critique as she studies her daughter’s assessment. As a mother, she should be excited about her daughter’s progress; but her eyes continually dart towards the areas of […]
