1. “Aren’t you supposed to be gifted???” Social & Emotional Needs of the Gifted Child

2.  Substitute teacher in the regular 6 th grade classroom  Students have history with sub  Lack of mutual trust & respect  Mary’s incident  Humiliated and told to leave class  Comes to GEM room

3.  Mary tearfully tells her tale  Fear of losing May trip to San Diego  “Gifted kids should know better”  Resolution, or so I thought  Classroom teacher’s opinion

4.  Treating all students with respect & dignity  Empowering students to think for themselves  Knowing when to intervene and when to step back  Training all teachers about the unique characteristics of the gifted child

5.  Talent Areas (CogAT) Verbal Mathematical-Logical Visual Spatial  A-syncronization in development Highly intelligent Socially-emotionally immature

6.  Gifted Instructional Standards (MUSD) Problem Solving Communication Personal Development  Dabrowski’s Theory of Over-Excitabilities Psychomotor Sensual Intellectual Imaginational Emotional

7. Books: Teaching Young Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom by Joan Franklin Smutny Strengthening Your Program for Gifted Students by Dr. Roger Taylor Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom by Susan Winebrenner

8. Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: Straight Talk by Tracy L. Cross Current Research on the Social and Emotional Development of Gifted and Talented Students: Good News and Future Possibilities by Sally M. Reis and Joseph S. Renzulli Patterns of Overexcitabilities in Identified Gifted Students and Their Parents: A Hierarchial Model by Carol L. Tieso

9. http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/ http://www.arizonagifted.org/ http://www.nagc.org/ http://www.byrdseed.com/ http://www.adifferentplace.org/just4fun.htm http://www.giftedservices.com.au/