Gifted category: 243 books
by Rich Weinfeld,Terry W. Neu
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Many parents and educators today are worried about the education of smart girls, especially in areas like math and science, but what about their male counterparts? According to a U.S. Census Bureau report (2004), boys drop out of school at a 25% higher rate than girls. In addition, the current trend...
by Robert Evert Cimera
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2002
Educating students with disabilities is a team process. By federal law, parents must be involved in the development of their child's educational plan. Unfortunately, few parents (or regular educators) understand special education_its terms, philosophies, and processes. This book explains, in layperson...
Peak Performance for Smart Kids
Strategies and Tips for Ensuring School Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Peak Performance for Smart Kids provides success strategies, activities, tools, real-life examples, and checklists for parents to employ to help their kids achieve to their highest potential. Even the most talented child will not succeed if he or she has not developed the mental, psychological, and...
Release Your Kid’s Dormant Genius in Just 10 Minutes a Day: Parenting Your Smart Underachiever with Consistency and Love
How to Change Your Life in 10 Minutes a Day, #3
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Help your kid achieve great results by following simple, daily disciplines
"It doesn't take textbooks on Physics or hours of music or any other kind of force to teach something effectively to children. It just takes one thing - it takes patience."- Jim Rohn
Turning your child’s...
Creativity in the Classroom
Schools of Curious Delight
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Creativity in the Classroom, sixth edition, helps teachers link creativity research and theory to the everyday activities of classroom teaching. This foundational textbook is relevant for any course dealing wholly or partially with creativity and teaching. The sixth edition has been revised and updated...
Developing Leadership in the Asia Pacific
A focus on the individual
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Developing Leadership in the Asia-Pacific focuses on the design of leadership programs that are able to meet the needs of students, teachers and the wider community. Rather than taking an all-encompassing approach that cover all contexts of leadership development, this book is based on research that...
Unlocking Student Talent
The New Science of Developing Expertise
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How do we truly help students achieve their fullest potential? What are the roles of motivation, deliberate practice, and coaching in developing talent and abilities in students? This hands-on guide examines each of these elements in detail providing definitions, relevant research, discussions, examples,...
Understanding Special Education
An Examination of the Responsibilities through Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
In increasing numbers, general education teachers are faced with the task of educating students with disabilities in their classrooms, and many beginning teachers are not prepared for the diverse classroom that awaits them. The cases in this book are written from the viewpoint of general education...
Dyslexia Wonders
Understanding the Daily Life of a Dyslexic from a Child's Point of View
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2009
A Child Knows More Than You Think. Written by a 12 Year Old Child With Dyslexia…Jennifer is struggling through school. Kids tease her, teachers question her ability. Her own family doesn't even understand her. Listen to her story as she tells it in her own words. Learn how she struggles from being...
by Julia Roberts, Ed.D., Jennifer Jolly
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Mindsets in the Classroom
Building a Growth Mindset Learning Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
With this book's easy-to-follow advice, tasks, and strategies, teachers can grow a love of learning in their students.
When students believe that dedication and hard work can change their performance in school, they grow to become resilient, successful students. Inspired by the popular mindset...
Beyond Knowledge
Extracognitive Aspects of Developing High Ability
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2004
Some aspects of giftedness and creativity cannot be explained by cognitive, developmental, personality, or social approaches considered in isolation. At the intersection of these approaches is something invisible, deeply hidden, but at the same time very important--the extracognitive facets of high...
Differentiating for the Young Child
Teaching Strategies Across the Content Areas, PreK–3
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Meet the highly diverse needs of primary students with these differentiated teaching strategies!
Designed to help primary teachers value and support the unique experiences and learning styles of diverse young learners, this book offers strategies for promoting intellectual discovery and creative...
Making ADHD a Gift
Teaching Superman How to Fly
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2002
Making ADHD a Gift explains, in everyday language, what ADHD is, how it is diagnosed, and how this condition can affect people throughout their lifetime. It also outlines methods of developing and assessing teaching strategies that can help individuals with ADHD both at home and at school. Unlike...