This unique book is brightly written and addresses the key issues and ideas in educating the gifted and talented population. You'll find it covers personality types and learning styles plus stages of giftedness from infancy to adulthood. It not only gives the characteristics and needs, but discusses grouping and acceleration and offers a comprehensive model of program development.
Special attention is given to mathematics, science, social studies, and the humanities.
This text translates the latest research into strategies and methods that work. Millions of people who attribute their daily life problems to bad parents, low self-esteem, or lack of will power are in fact struggling with a shadow syndrome. Ratey and Johnson explode the idea that these problems are brought on by aberrations in upbringing or relationships, and that they are prolonged by a willful refusal to change. They make it clear that, on the contrary, these patterns have their origins in the inherent structure and chemistry of the individual brain and that understanding our own unique biological makeup is the key to freeing ourselves from biology's bonds. The first book to outline a workable solution for dyslexia that anyone can use.