Nancy Heilbronner

Ten Things to Say to Gifted Children (eBook, PDF)

A Guide to Navigating Common Social-emotional and Academic Concerns

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

10 Things to Say to Gifted Children is your go-to guide to nurturing bright minds and a sense of growing confidence!

Using short and engaging vignettes, discussion questions, and practical parenting and teaching tips based on decades of research, each easy-to-read chapter dives into key academic and social-emotional issue with which many gifted children struggle, and then provides strategies for how to navigate them. Featuring conversation starters that get at the heart of the issue and "Bridging the Gap" strategies to help parents and teachers become a power team, this book is ideal for anyone who cares about gifted children and wants to promote their healthy academic and social-emotional development.

Whether you are a parent seeking to advocate for your child or a teacher looking to create an enriching classroom environment, this book is a must read you'll find yourself reaching for again and again.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040402979
• Artikelnr.: 75526231

Autorenporträt

Nancy N. Heilbronner, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the School of Education at Mercy University where she previously served as Interim Dean and Interim Associate Provost. She taught gifted children (grades K-8) for 10 years before earning her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Connecticut. She has authored or co-authored four books and many articles in the field of gifted education and writes from first-hand experience in research, parenting three gifted children, and teaching.

Inhaltsangabe

CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1 PART I MOTIVATING GIFTED STUDENTS CHAPTER 2 You've
Got This! Setting the Stage to Motivate Gifted Students 11 CHAPTER 3 Stay
in the Struggle: Developing Persistence through Goal-setting and a Growth
Mindset 30 CHAPTER 4 It Gets Better If You Try: Managing Students'
Expectations of Success and Failure 51 PART II PROMOTING GIFTED STUDENTS'
INTERESTS AND CREATIVITY CHAPTER 5 Find Your Passion: Helping Gifted
Students Find Their Interests 73 CHAPTER 6 Pick a Path: Helping Students
Deal with Multipotentiality 97 CHAPTER 7 Please Color Outside the Lines:
Encouraging Creativity in Gifted Students 115 PART III GUIDING STUDENTS
SOCIALLY AND EMOTIONALLY CHAPTER 8 No One Is Perfect: Helping Gifted
Students Manage Perfectionism 147 CHAPTER 9 Take a Deep Breath: Helping
Gifted Students Cope with Anxiety and Fear 174 CHAPTER 10 Do You Have True
Friends? Guiding Gifted Students as They Make Friends 204 PART IV BECOMING
AN ADVOCATE CHAPTER 11 I'm There for You: Becoming an Advocate for Gifted
Students and for Gifted Education 235 CHAPTER 12 Conclusion 258 Appendix
263 Glossary 266 Index 275