Talent aptitudes include: Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Music, Dance, Psychomotor*, Creative or Productive Thinking and Leadership.
Ian Byrd Ian has a fully loaded website! He has content-specific sections as well as social/emotional and creativity sections. Check out his Differentiator and Depth and Complexity areas to help make differentiation easier.
Lisa has a wonderful website full of articles and links for both parents and educators. She writes in a very accessible manner.
Fabulous resource for all things gifted. Teachers can search by subject area to find resources for gifted learners.
For your future novelists! Invite them to have accountability for their work, get feedback, and meet other authors. Teachers can find resources here for curriculum to support these writers.
April 22, 2018
Kathryn Grubbs
The teenage years can be difficult, filled with questions, emotions, and decisions. For high-achieving adolescents who may experience asynchronous development or experience the world more intensely, these years can bring about intense emotions, feelings of isolation, or difficulty understanding the injustices of the world. As parents, we may try to protect our children from experiencing the same level of teenage stress we felt only to hear the common reply: “You’re not me!” While it’s natural to take this as a cue to disengage and parent implicitly, parents must provide explicit support of teenagers as they figure out who they are, what they will do as adults, and what makes them happy.