Being involved with giftedness can sometimes get crazy! Cartoonist Jean Watts searches for some perspective on the full-time job of parenting and teaching gifted children. Her original cartoons present amusing viewpoints and thought-provoking insights into life with a precocious child. The drawings are reproducible for use in schools and other non-profit organizations. This book makes an excellent gift! FEATURES ?Contains fresh viewpoints. ?Unique in its focus on teaching and parenting gifted and talented children. ?Simplifies many issues of gifted children in ways that promote a new perspective.

In Search of Perspective

Comics & Graphic Novels

Watts, Jean

Graphic Novels

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Gifted Children and The Law: Meditation, Due Process, and Court Cases. 
A groundbreaking book about gifted education and legal issues, this unique and understandable book synthesizes the results of all reported legal actions concerning the education of gifted and talented children up to 1991. Parents are encouraged to seek mediation and due process hearings in order to settle disputes and disagreements, and specific guidance is provided on how to do this. Also included are summaries of the legal status of gifted children in statutory law in various states. This book is an important reference for parents, educators, and administrators.

Gifted Children and the Law: Mediation, Due Process, and Court Cases

Karnes, Frances A.

Marquardt, Ronald G.

Reference

Gifted Children and Legal Issues in Education: Parents' Stories of Hope A must read for parents struggling with educating their gifted children. A companion book to Gifted Children and the Law: Mediation, Due Process and Court Cases, theis legal reference narrates the poignant and personal stories of parents with gifted children as they search for appropriate educational options and creative solutions dealing with schooling their bright children. Issues covered range from early school admission to early high school graduation and awarding of credits. An expanded appendix offers advocacy information, gifted organization contacts, journal listings, and guidelines for parent/teacher interaction.

Gifted Children and Legal Issues in Education: Parents Stories of Hope

Serious college planning should begin in the 8th grade. This book is written for students and their parents to use together to plan for college. It evaluates the student's strengths and weaknesses, likes and dislikes, explores careers, organizes records and assists in preparing a first resume, planning finances, preparing for tests, filling out applications and making a campus visit. Features:  Has joint exercises for the student and the parents to enhance mutual communication. Examines the student's learning style, as well as interests and abilities. Tells the student how to enjoy a successful campus visit. Contains an impressive bibliography of a wide variety of further key resources. Presents a detailed month-by-month planning calendar starting in the 8th grade.

College Comes Sooner Than You Think!: The Essential College Planning Guide for High School Students and Their Families

Education & Teaching

Reilly, Jill M.

Featherstone, Bonnie D.

Higher & Continuing Education

Mentorship: The Essential Guide for Schools and Business 
Selected as one of the best School to Work Programs by the U.S. Department of Education. 
Many students learn best in mentorships, either as an alternative educational experience or as an added component to traditional education. Mentorships are being used increasingly by business leaders, companies, and schools. This book describes how to establish a highly successful program similar to that developed by the author. Criteria and sample forms for establishing a mentorship program are included and may be copied.

Mentorship: The Essential Guide for Schools and Business

Schools & Teaching

Off Hours 
Sometimes, you just have to laugh! 
Jean Watts presents 180 original cartoons featuring her humorous views on teaching, parenting, and life in general. Busy moms and teachers will relate to these quirky drawings about the stresses, worries, frustrations, and ironies they experience every day. All the cartoons are reproducible for use in a non-profit organization, school setting, or anywhere else where a good laugh is needed!

Off Hours

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Written by the founder of KidProv, Improvisation describes 35 specific improvisational activities and techniques for use in classrooms or at home for kids from second grade through high school. Each activity creates an openness to learning and helps kids overcome reluctance to participate in group activities. 
Features: 
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<li>Each activity is described in detail, along with possible adaptations.</li> <li>Objectives of each activity are described clearly.</li> <li>Contains a reference section to allow more detailed study.</li> <li>The techniques can be used in a wide range of settings and with many ages of children.</li> </ul>

Improvisation: Serious Fun for the Classroom A.K.A. the Urge to Diverge

Newton, Brad

Gifted Parent Groups: The SENG Model Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted Parents of gifted children face many strange and disturbingly unfamiliar issues because their children are different from seemingly "average" children. But when they talk with other parents who are dealing with similar situations, they can find comfort, reassurance, and alternative ways of handling particular problems. This book describes how parents, counselors, and teachers can form a guided support group using the well-established SENG (Supporting Emotional Needs of Gifted) model in order to better understand and help their gifted children.

Gifted Parent Groups: The Seng Model

Webb, James T.

DeVries, Arlene R.

Parenting & Relationships

Presents the latest research and theory on talent development from over 40 prominent researchers, all of whom presented at the 1993 national symposium at the University of Iowa. 
Features: 
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<li>42 researchers present various theory and research.</li> <li>International presenters add diverse dimensions.</li> <li>Contains many summary tables and figures summarizing results.</li> <li>Index allows quick reference.</li> <li>Provides a wealth of information and historical background.</li> </ul>

Talent Development II: Proceedings from the 1993 Henry B. and Jocelyn Wallace National Research Symposium on Talent Development

Assouline, Susan G.

Colangelo, Nicholas

Some of My Best Friends Are Books 
Finding emotional support for the gifted through bibliotherapy. 
Books can provide important emotional and intellectual support for gifted children, many of whom face unique issues in their lives due to their special talents and abilities. The author offers suggestions for using books as bibliotherapy. 
The book contains short summaries of over 300 books organized by grade level adn indexed by author, title, and theme. Questions are included to facilitate discussion. 
An invaluable resource for parents and teachers who wish for a list of books to recommend to their gifted readers.

Some of My Best Friends Are Books: Guiding Gifted Readers from Preschool to High School

Judith Wynn Halsted

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