Empowering Gifted Minds: Educational Advocacy That Works - Softcover

Gilman, Barbara Jackson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932186026 ISBN 13: 9781932186024

Publisher: Deleon Pub Inc, 2003

Synopsis

The definitive manual on gifted advocacy, this book takes parents and teachers from documenting a child s abilities to providing reasonable educational options year by year. The necessity for daily accommodations in regular instruction (not just enrichment pull-outs) is emphasized by the children themselves in case studies and their own accounts. Learn about the problems and solutions for gifted students: *The Experience of Giftedness *What Do We Mean by "Gifted"? *Testing Considerations *Curriculum and Instruction *Underachievement: When a Child is Too Advanced for the Educational Program *Underachievement: Gifted Children With Learning Disabilities or Other Deficits *Successful Programs for Gifted Students *Models of Advocacy for Parents *Teachers of the Gifted *Charter Schools *Planning Your Child s Program Year By Year

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About the Author

Barbara Gilman specializes in the assessment of gifted children, the creation of educational programs to motivate them, and helping parents and teachers to support their academic, social, and emotional needs. The Director of Staff Development at the Gifted Development Center in Denver, she has degrees in Psychology and Child Development, trains testers in the unique issues of the gifted, and supervises reports. Bobbie has extensive experience working with the gifted, highly gifted, gifted individuals with learning disabilities, AD/HD, and underachievement issues. A mother of highly gifted sons, she is a veteran of gifted committees and helped create an accelerated charter middle school. Bobbie is a popular presenter to parent groups and teachers, and consults with parents worldwide.

From the Inside Flap

Endorsements: "All the priceless information that it took me years to collect, all in one easy to read book! Barbara Gilman pulls together the collective wisdom of decades of parents, and professionals, from identification to accommodations to acceleration and beyond This is the manual we all wish came with our gifted children!" Carolyn Kottmeyer Hoagies Gifted Education Page and board member of SENG

"This is the best book I've ever read about advocacy for gifted children. Gilman provides us with a refreshing nitty-gritty reality, equipping parents and teachers with specific skills to advocate for real children in real schools, rather than the idealized versions so common in most educational and advocacy literature." Kathi Kearney, M. Ed. Nationally recognized expert in curriculum for gifted students, homeschooling, and assessment of gifted children

"Author Gilman has given us a much-needed guidebook for getting gifted children through school unscathed, and even better, educated. She manages to get inside the thoughts and emotions of these children with her stories of their experiences with school and with growing up. What makes this book such a treasure is that it provides the advice parents need in moving their children s education forward, based upon her professional background and training, as well as her own experiences as a parent of highly gifted boys. I found the advocacy chapters especially rewarding; the chapter devoted to teachers is among the best I have seen in print. If the advice of this book is followed, one could almost guarantee a rewarding education for a gifted child, in which the child s talents and gifts would be fully developed." Karen Rogers, Ph.D. Professor of Gifted Studies, University of St. Thomas and author of Re-Forming Gifted Education

Edition details

• Publisher: Deleon Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1932186026
• ISBN 13: 9781932186024
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 440