Gifted Education Advocacy

Advocating for gifted and talented children can be a daunting task. It requires speaking up for these students' needs, educating your colleagues about gifted students characteristics, and establishing positive home-to-school collaborative partnerships. After watching this video, describe three needs that the gifted students in your school have and explain how you will advocate for each of those needs. 

Bibliotherapy: 10 Books to Nurture your Gifted Child

Bibliotherapy is a intervention strategy that has gained popularity over the past decade. Watch this video and learn about this strategy. After watching, describe three ways that you can use this strategy in your classroom that will nurture the social/emotional development of gifted and talented students. 

Susan Baum on Twice-Exceptionality

During this module you learned about twice-exceptional children and their social/emotional needs. Hopefully, you were able to develop a greater sense of how to accommodate for their needs in your classroom. Watch this video and write three questions for Dr. Susan Baum that have not been answered during this module. 

Asynchronous Development in Gifted Children

Asynchronous Development is a concept that confounds many people. While everyone develops differently, twice-exceptional children tend to have greater disparities. Watch this video to gain a deeper understanding of this term and how it impacts the social/emotional development of twice-exceptional children. After watching, explain asynchronous development and describe how two interventions that you can share with parents about how to successfully support a twice-exceptional child's social/emotional development. 

Positive Home-to-School Collaborative Partnerships

 

Throughout this module, you have learned about several issues related to parenting for the social/emotional needs of gifted and talented children. As a teacher, it is a double edged sword to have a parent involved, depending on the involvement levels. However, one thing is certain, that involved parents care for their child and desperately want their child be successful. Watch these two videos and describe the materials you would need to provide parents to help establish a positive home-to-school collaborative partnership that will foster the healthy social/emotional growth of a gifted child. 

Become A Risk Taker - MOTIVATIONAL VIDEO

Now that you have completed this module, watch this motivational video and think about how you can use this in your classroom to inspire your students. Then search for another inspirational video and post a link so that others in the class can watch it. When you post the link, please provide a brief description of the video and explain how you will use it in your classroom. 

Perfectionism and Risk Taking

This module you read about risk taking and perfectionism. Fear of failure is a crippling cognitive state of mind that prevents many gifted and talented students from achieving high levels. Watch this video and describe how you can create a classroom environment that teaches all students how to overcome fear of failure.