Parenting and teaching the gifted
By: Rosemary Callard-Szulgit
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 129
ISBN-13: 9781607094555; 9781607094579
Subjects: Gifted children; Education; Parent participation
Description: Parents of gifted students have often experienced the frustration of trying to get an appropriate education for their children in public and private schools. Teachers have equally experienced the frustration of trying to educate these students due to classroom demands. Over the past two decades, Callard-Szulgit has accumulated well over 1,000 questions asked by parents in her gifted parenting classes, her graduate students of gifted education, education colleagues, and gifted students themselves. This user-friendly book offers common sense and educationally informative answers to the questions and dilemmas that parents and teachers seek. This book will be of interest to all who seek a fair and equitable education for the gifted.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Who are gifted and talented?; title: Programming and curriculum development in gifted education; title: Perfectionism and social emotional development; title: Time management, homework issues, and school-related studies (SRS); title: Advocacy; title: Gifted children talk about . . .