Many gifted children can struggle with the social and emotional skills necessary to create and maintain relationships. While many Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) programs exist in schools, they are often not adapted to the unique needs of the gifted population. This presentation will also...
Balanced research and practice Robust gifted education policies provide a framework for identification, services, teacher preparedness, accountability for student learning and program evaluation. Together, these policies define comprehensive, equitable opportunities for high achieving and high-potential students. Having well-designed and approved policies in place reflects an education...
Balanced research and practice Have you ever thought you had a chance at accessing an opportunity only to find out there were some implicit rules you did not follow? This might include failure to acquire the support of a key individual to have your idea approved...
Balanced research and practice Parental burnout is an often overseen phenomenon in gifted families. From research (e.g. Rimlinger, 2016) we know parents of gifted children are more prone to developing parental burnout. Since the complexity of raising a gifted child is often overlooked, there is little...
Scientific This dynamic flash presentation aims to examine speficifs of coping with stress withing gifted population. Its goal is to identify stressors that might be unique to gifted and to discover, which coping mechanisms are prefered by them. This analysis is based by searching and analyzing...
Scientific Aim: To investigate positive and negative experiences in psychotherapy of individuals (>18 years) with high intellectual intelligence and what personal factors according to these individuals determine their experiences. ...
Scientific The principal aim of the simposium is to show research studies about teacher`s prejuicies of high abilities students and their education. Also two studies about teacher`s perceptions of high abilities cognitive skills will be shown. Finally the last paper will present a summary about the...
Balanced research and practice In a study to explore the psychology of Irish gifted students, secondary students attending an advanced summer enrichment program completed a survey battery that included the Big Five Inventory personality measure and the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale. Psychologists have found links among mental...
Balanced research and practice There seems to be an increase of parents of gifted children reporting their child has trauma or PTSD for which full responsibility is placed onto the school. Research in the field of attachment and trauma in general states that trauma is transmitted...
Balanced research and practice In recognizing gifted students for their creative talents, reasonable identification, and practices must be reasonably applied. This session will consider and provide resources towards the methodology and pedagogy behind identification of creativity relative to gifted learners, evaluate constraints associated with programming for...