This top-selling comprehensive book, written by leaders in the field, presents a thorough review of the entire field of gifted education with best-practices. After a brief overview of current issues in the field, the book discusses crucial topics in the field, including the characteristics of gifted students, strategies for identification, considerations in planning sound gifted and talented programs, contemporary program models, varieties of acceleration, differentiated curriculum models, problems of underachievement of disadvantaged, twice-exceptional, and female gifted students, and the evaluation of gifted programs. The authors also address affective needs, leadership, and counseling. A chapter on parenting gifted children includes a section on advocating for gifted education and communication with schools. The sixth edition has been thoroughly revised, most notably with the latest research on acceleration, curriculum models, underachievement, culturally and economically disadvantaged students, gender issues, and dual exceptionalities. The content is further supported and enhanced by the inclusion of numerous practical strategies that can be implemented in the classroom, case studies that help teachers identify student needs, summaries of research on effective programs, emphasis on pedagogy and on social-emotional needs, heightened awareness of less visible sub-groups within gifted populations, and an amusing, witty writing style that adds to the appeal of this best-selling book.

Education of the Gifted and Talented (6th Edition)

Education & Teaching

Davis, Gary A.

Rimm, Sylvia B.

Siegle, Del B.

Schools & Teaching

Pearson

This comprehensive book, presents the best ideas and practices in the field of gifted education and is approved by the National Association for Gifted Children. After a brief overview of current issues in the field, Education of the Gifted and Talented discusses the characteristics of gifted students, from the problem of underachievement to the challenges of parenting and the understanding and counseling of gifted children. The authors address crucial topics in the field, including strategies for identifying gifted students, considerations in planning a sound gifted &amp; talented program, and the evaluation of gifted programs. Special education teachers and parents.

Education of the Gifted and Talented (5th Edition)

Allyn&Bacon

Parents get guidelines on how to determine if their children are unusually gifted, and how to prepare them for school. Here are recommendations to ensure that gifted children are sufficiently challenged in the classroom. The author also gives advice on dealing with emotional stresses that intellectually gifted children often feel. She emphasizes the importance of maintaining a child's emotional adjustment in school, and among siblings, friends, and all family members. This new edition includes a chapter on gifted children and technology, and expands on the topic of gender issues that can affect gifted children's achievement. Books in Barron's easy-to-read series of Parenting Keys contain advice and information on a wide range of child-related subjects, written by experts in psychology, physical health, education, and social and personal development. Parenting Keys help parents raise healthy, happy, productive, and well-adjusted children in the demanding contemporary environment.

Keys to Parenting the Gifted Child (Barron's Parenting Keys)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Barrons Educational Series. Inc.

Looks at sibling rivalry, family relationships, and early childhood testing, and offers advice concerning competitiveness, perfectionism, aspects of creative thinking, underachievers, gender issues, and peer pressure

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

Unlock the potential of your bright child with more than 40 helpful keys. Discover what it takes to successfully raise a gifted child through practical advice and guidelines offered by Dr. Sylvia Rimm. Parents have many questions and concerns, and Dr. Rimm brings them one step closer to finding answers. Keys include: How to enhance learning in the family; Parenting with a united front; Homework issues; Underachievement; Perfectionism; Peer pressure; Parent-school communications; Educational alternatives; and much more.

Great Potential Pr., Inc.

Dr. Rimm provides practical, compassionate, no-nonsense advice for raising happy, secure, and productive children, from preschool to college. Easy-to-follow parent pointers, sample dialogues, and boxed step-by-step examples show parents how to: select appropriate rewards and punishments, decrease arguments and power struggles, encourage appropriate independence without overempowering your children, guide your children toward good study habits, encourage creativity in your children, set limits for children, and much more.

How to Parent So Children Will Learn

SCB Distributors

Millions of gifted children are failing to reach their potential something Dr. Sylvia Rimm calls underachievement syndrome. Drawing on both clinical research and years of experience counseling families, Dr. Rimm has developed a Trifocal Model to help parents and teachers work together to get students back on track. It is effective for a wide range of students, from preschool through college. Dr. Rimm s practical, six-step program provides everything you need to know to turn your child or student s underachievement into success.

Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades and What You Can Do About It: A Six-Step Program for Parents and Teachers (3rd Edition)

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Underachievement Syndrome: Causes and Cures

Self-Help

Motivational

Apple Pub. Co

Rimm, Sylvia B., Cornale, M., Manos, R., Behrand, J.

Guidebook for Implementing the Trifocal Underachievement Program for Schools

Cornale, M.

Manos, R.

Behrand, J.

Book by Rimm, Sylvia B., Priest, Christine E.

Gifted Kids Have Feelings Too: And Other Not So Fictitious Stories for and About Teenagers

Priest, Christine E.

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Education of the Gifted and Talented (6th Edition)

Education of the Gifted and Talented (5th Edition)

Keys to Parenting the Gifted Child (Barron's Parenting Keys)

Keys to Parenting the Gifted Child (Barron's Parenting Keys)

Keys to Parenting the Gifted Child (Barron's Parenting Keys)

How to Parent So Children Will Learn

Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades and What You Can Do About It: A Six-Step Program for Parents and Teachers (3rd Edition)

Underachievement Syndrome: Causes and Cures

Guidebook for Implementing the Trifocal Underachievement Program for Schools

Gifted Kids Have Feelings Too: And Other Not So Fictitious Stories for and About Teenagers