When Gifted Kids Don't Have All the Answers: How to Meet Their Social and Emotional Needs
Veterans of gifted education classes or workshops will find the first two chapters of this volume, concerned with defining and identifying gifted children, a reasonably good review. But interest ratchets up when the authors share data and evocative writings by the students themselves. Practical strategies to deal with specific emotional problems are given. Enticing discussion questions, group activities, and 31 reproducible pages are offered as a way to begin addressing these concerns. The media center is often the preferred habitat of specially trained gifted teachers and their students, and it often behooves librarians to better understand this clientele. Shrinking budgets around the nation are forcing the dissolution of specialized teaching positions and the mainstreaming of gifted students. So-called "regular teachers" are being required to submit written plans for differentiated instruction of the gifted. This book is an excellent introduction for new collaborations in our multilevel, multitasking research environments. With carefully reasoned suggestions and well-thought-out design, this is an easy, but essential, professional read.Cindy Darling Codell, Clark Middle School, Winchester, KYCopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.