When Gifted Kids Don't Have All the Answers: How to Meet Their Social and Emotional Needs (Free Spirit Professional®)

When Gifted Kids Don't Have All the Answers: How to Meet Their Social and Emotional Needs (Free Spirit Professional®)

Judy Galbraith, Jim Delisle
$29.99
Publication Date: February 12th, 2015
Publisher:
Free Spirit Publishing
ISBN:
9781575424934
Pages:
304
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Description

Gifted kids are so much more than test scores and grades. Still, it’s sometimes difficult to see past the potential to the child who may be anxious, lonely, confused, or unsure of what the future might bring. This book, now fully revised with updated information and new survey quotes, offers practical suggestions for addressing the social and emotional needs of gifted students. The authors present ways to advocate for gifted education; help gifted underachievers, perfectionists, and twice-exceptional students; and provide all gifted kids with a safe, supportive learning environment. Complete with engaging stories, strategies, activities, and resources, this book is for anyone committed to helping gifted students thrive. Includes online digital content.

About the Author

Award-winning author and publisher Judy Galbraith, M.A., has a master’s degree in guidance and counseling of the gifted. A former classroom teacher, she has worked with and taught gifted children and teens, their parents, and their teachers for many years.

In 1983 she started Free Spirit Publishing, which specializes in Self-Help for Kids® and Self-Help for Teens® books and other learning resources.

Judy is the author or coauthor of several books, including the perennially popular The Gifted Teen Survival Guide, The Survival Guide for Gifted Kids, When Gifted Kids Don’t Have All the Answers, and You Know Your Child Is Gifted When . . . She has appeared on Oprah and has been featured in Family Circle and Family Life, as well as numerous other magazines, newspapers, and broadcast and online media.

Judy served for ten years on the Board of Directors of Search Institute, a nonprofit research organization dedicated to advancing the well-being of children and adolescents. From 2007–2010, she was a member of Minnesota 4-H Foundation Board of Trustees. In 1996, Judy received the E. Paul Torrance Creativity Award; in 2004, she was named the Midwest Publisher of the Year; in 2006, she was Honored for Excellence in Independent Publishing by Independent Publisher Book Awards; in 2011, she received the California Association for the Gifted (CAG) Ruth A. Martinson Award for significant contribution to gifted education; in 2012, she was given the Friend of the Gifted Award by the Minnesota Council for the Gifted and Talented for her sustained advocacy on behalf of gifted children; and in 2015, she received the NAGC Annemarie Roeper Global Awareness Award.

A popular speaker on the social and emotional needs of gifted students, Judy is available to conduct professional development workshops and to give conference keynotes. She is also available for classroom visits via Skype. Judy lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Jim Delisle, Ph.D., has taught gifted children and those who work on their behalf for more than forty years, including twenty-five years as a professor of special education at Kent State University.

He has taught students in elementary and secondary schools and, for the past six years, has worked part time with highly gifted ninth and tenth graders at the Scholars’ Academy in Conway, South Carolina. The author of more than 250 articles and twenty books, Jim is a frequent presenter on gifted children’s intellectual and emotional growth.

Jim and his wife Deb live in Washington, D.C., and North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Praise for When Gifted Kids Don't Have All the Answers: How to Meet Their Social and Emotional Needs (Free Spirit Professional®)

2015 Legacy Book Award in the Educator Category

“Galbraith and Delisle successfully bridge the gap between research and practice to make a positive, practical difference for gifted young people. They bring key theories and findings to life by sharing strategic interventions designed to increase mutual understanding and trust between gifted young people and the adults who interact with them. This text is a thorough, thoughtful, and utterly essential collection of information and actions that will benefit gifted kids and the adults in their lives.”
— Colleen Harsin, director of the Davidson Academy of Nevada

“Jim and Judy are on target! This book really does help students, parents, educators, and friends of gifted people understand that being gifted is truly a blessing, not a burden. The teacher-friendly strategies and activities make it easy to implement affective education with minimal preparation. Gifted students will benefit from reading the heart-warming stories and amazing quotes that will serve to guide them as they strive to understand themselves and their place in the world around them.”
— Patti Rendon, gifted and talented coordinator in Edinburg, Texas

“This book belongs in the canon of gifted literature. Every teacher, parent, or mental health professional working with the gifted should have a well-worn, dog-eared copy on his or her desk. In Gifted Land, there are very few answers and many, many questions. When Gifted Kids Don’t Have All the Answers allows us to live the questions without feeling bad about not having all of the answers. It is clearly written by people who possess both strategic and tactical vision of how to navigate Gifted Land, and its readability, practical advice, and unique voice make it a must own. Five stars and two thumbs up.”
— Lisa Van Gemert, youth and education ambassador, Mensa Foundation

“An excellent resource for advocates—both teachers and parents—offering practical and insightful strategies on how to answer information seekers and critics alike about gifted children and their education . . . Professionals will appreciate its common sense responses to challenging topics such as the importance of how defining giftedness influences education policy; how charges of elitism mask the will to provide services to gifted students; understanding underachievement as a failure of the system; what it means to be twice-exceptional; and why gifted education should be an integral part of educational programming.”—
— Lisa Conrad, founder and blogger at Gifted Parenting Support, and moderator of Twitter’s Global Gifted & Talented Chat (#gtchat)

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