Parenting and Teaching the Gifted

by Rosemary S. Callard-Szulgit

Overview

Parents of gifted students have often experienced the frustration of trying to get an appropriate education for their children in public and private schools. Teachers have equally experienced the frustration of trying to educate these students due to classroom demands. Over the past two decades, Callard-Szulgit has accumulated well over 1,000 questions asked by parents in her gifted parenting classes, her graduate students of gifted education, education colleagues, and gifted students themselves. This user-friendly book offers common sense and educationally informative answers to the questions and dilemmas that parents and teachers seek. Six chapters are devoted to: Who are the Gifted and Talented?, Programming and Curriculum Development, Perfectionism and Social/Emotional Development, Time Management & Homework Issues, Advocacy, and Gifted Children Speak Out. Humorous cartoons illustrate the text. This book will be of interest to all who seek a fair and equitable education for the gifted.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810845299
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/09/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Rosemary Callard-Szulgit, EdD is currently associated with the State University of New York, College at Brockport, where her courses on Teaching the Gifted K-12, Teaching Writing K-12, and Teaching Reading K-12, have become highly respected.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 1 Who Are the Gifted and Talented? Chapter 4 2 Programming and Curriculum Development in Gifted Education Chapter 5 3 Perfectionism and Social Emotional Development Chapter 6 4 Time Management, Homework Issues, and School-Related Studies (S-R-S) Chapter 7 5 Advocacy Chapter 8 6 Gifted Children Speak to Us Chapter 9 Additional Resources Chapter 10 Bibliography Chapter 11 Index Chapter 12 About the Author

Editorial Reviews

Rosemary Callard-Szulgit is a gifted writer with passion and pathways for bringing parents and educators together to create the best possibilities for a meaningful and productive learning experience for all children. In an era when global citizens and world partnerships are essential to discovering and designing our future workforce for a sustainable and harmonious planet, educators must develop creativity and problem-solving abilities in students in order for them to meet the opportunities and challenges of tomorrow.

Jerrie Ueberle

Rosemary Callard-Szulgit provides parents and educators with down-to-earth sensible, practical, and professionally sound advice and information. Using a unique question-and-answer format that draws on her years of experience in the field, she offers guidance and direction that speaks directly and helpfully to the topics and concerns that are on the minds of many readers. This book will be a valuable resource that you will want to keep readily accessible long after your first reading.

Donald J. Treffinger

'Special education' acquires a new meaning when applied to the gifted child. Callard-Szulgit presents this complex but vital topic in a highly accessible, conversational style that will influence and support the parents and educators of gifted students as well as the students themselves.

Richard J. Caselli