gifted children

Explains to teachers how to deal with special situations presented by gifted students in regular classes of all grades, suggesting strategies and providing more than fifty reproducible forms and handouts. Includes CD-ROM.

When four child prodigies transfer from a center for research and rehabilitation to an experimental group home, they face another way of connecting with their world.

After skipping the ninth grade and entering high school in an accelerated program for gifted students, fourteen-year-old Eric and his best friend Paul seem to undergo a dynamic change in their relationship.

Draws from research to present learning strategies for use with gifted students, and discusses ways of identifying and helping underachieving gifted students and gifted students with learning disabilities.

Thirty-four-year-old Renne Sundheimer, a cello teacher at UCLA, has been deprived of a normal youth due to his early promise as a musical prodigy and his close relationship with his instructor, but he is forced to finally engage with life when he is called to serve on the jury for the trial of a Zen student accused of killing his master, and he takes on a brilliant new pupil.

When four child prodigies transfer from a center for research and rehabilitation to an experimental group home, they face another way of connecting with their world.

Expelled from boarding school, Charles' presence at home proves disruptive, especially for his sister Rachel, a gifted seventh grader juggling friendships and school activities.

Examines the problems of gifted and talented students and explains how they can make the best use of their educational opportunities, get along better with parents and friends, and better understand themselves.

Offers advice on how to identify high-ability children in preschool and early elementary grades; explores a variety of methods teachers may use to respond to the educational, social, and emotional needs of young gifted children; and discusses the importance of parental support.