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10 Things to Say to Gifted Children is your go-to guide to nurturing bright minds and a sense of growing confidence!
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CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1
PART I MOTIVATING GIFTED STUDENTS CHAPTER 2 You've Got This! Setting the Stage to Motivate Gifted Students 11 CHAPTER 3 Stay in the Struggle: Developing Persistence through Goal-setting and a Growth Mindset 30 CHAPTER 4 It Gets Better If You Try: Managing Students' Expectations of Success and Failure 51
PART II PROMOTING GIFTED STUDENTS' INTERESTS AND CREATIVITY CHAPTER 5 Find Your Passion: Helping Gifted Students Find Their Interests 73 CHAPTER 6 Pick a Path: Helping Students Deal with Multipotentiality 97 CHAPTER 7 Please Color Outside the Lines: Encouraging Creativity in Gifted Students 115
PART III GUIDING STUDENTS SOCIALLY AND EMOTIONALLY CHAPTER 8 No One Is Perfect: Helping Gifted Students Manage Perfectionism 147 CHAPTER 9 Take a Deep Breath: Helping Gifted Students Cope with Anxiety and Fear 174 CHAPTER 10 Do You Have True Friends? Guiding Gifted Students as They Make Friends 204
PART IV BECOMING AN ADVOCATE CHAPTER 11 I'm There for You: Becoming an Advocate for Gifted Students and for Gifted Education 235 CHAPTER 12 Conclusion 258 Appendix 263 Glossary 266 Index 275
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Nancy N. Heilbronner, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the School of Education at Mercy University where she previously served as Interim Dean and Interim Associate Provost. She taught gifted children (grades K-8) for 10 years before earning her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Connecticut. She has authored or co-authored four books and many articles in the field of gifted education and writes from first-hand experience in research, parenting three gifted children, and teaching.
