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Breakout Session 5: 1:00 - 2:15 PM
How about a nice game of chess?
“Left-brain” children thrive in analytical activities like math problems, logic puzzles, and computer programming exercises. We’ll discuss how to use such activities to address their emotional needs, improving mood, attention span, classroom behavior, sociability, and overall sense of self.
Katharine Beals, Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania GSE, Philadelphia, PA
Helping Gifted Adolescents
The intensities and passions of gifted adolescents often make 'typical' adolescent issues more challenging. This workshop will address areas of concern and strategies to ease the rough spots on the path to adulthood. Group discussion is encouraged!
Susan T. Berry, Ph.D., Psychologist, Glastonbury, CT
Renzulli Learning: Using Technology to Differentiate for Gifted Learners
Renzulli Learning uses technology and best practices to differentiate, enrich and accelerate gifted learners with interactive resources, proven teaching strategies and increased levels of challenge. Explore ways to increase grades and test scores while enhancing student engagement and teacher effectiveness.
Caroline Cohen, Educational Consultant and Coach, East Windsor, CT
Exploring Alternative Forms of Energy
Contemporary issues such as alternate energy, solar and wind, are an important part of our environmental and economic future. This hands-on workshop will include conducting experiments with solar and wind models and how to make these set-ups at low cost to get your students 'thinking globally and acting locally'.
Jonathan Craig, Director of Talcott Mountain Academy, Avon, CT
Children, Strengths, Optimism: Make the Connection!
Participants will identify character strengths, learn how optimism skills can broaden and build positive emotions, strengthen leadership and resilience skills, and lessen the chances of depression in children. Connect to Children’s strengths - Resources will be shared!
Sue's Handout
Susan T. Dinnocenti, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
Reading Difficulties and Solutions for Elementary Gifted Students
Elementary-age gifted children may display basic reading problems in phonics, sight words, and main idea comprehension. Learn how these surprisingly frequent challenges can be remediated successfully, through straightforward, step-by-step processes that have been employed successfully by gifted and general educators, parents, and homeschoolers, in New England and around America.
Terence Friedrichs, Ph.D., Ed.D, Director, Friedrichs Education, Mendota Heights, MN
Understanding and Treating the Emotional Problems of Gifted Children, Adolescents and Young Adults: A Psychotherapy Approach (Part 2, 1:00-2:30 pm)
(Special 3 hour APA CE Course for Psychologists only, $90 additional)
Clinical vignettes will illustrate the personality traits of gifted individuals and show how, regardless of circumstance, they often develop with a corresponding set of psychological conflicts. Unresolved, these conflicts can lead to learning disabilities, underachievement, depression, anxiety, mood disorders and self-destructive behavior.
Dr. Grobman will explain how the Psychiatric Diagnostic Manual ( DSM IV) is used to accurately diagnose these conditions and how psychotropic medications are used to treat them.
He will describe the elements of a psychodynamic assessment process and show how it goes beyond DSM IV diagnoses as well as psychoeducational and neuropsychological testing protocols to formulate the deeper psychological issues of gifted individuals. In this way one can tell whether unresolved psychological symptoms are inhibiting the full expression of giftedness or unresolved conflicts about giftedness are causing psychological symptoms.
The stages of psychodynamic psychotherapy will be described as well as how this form of psychotherapy can inform mentoring and coaching and enhance other forms of therapy and counseling to meet the therapeutic needs of gifted individuals.
SENG is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. SENG maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Jerald Grobman, M.D., www.psychotherapyservicesforthegifted.com , NYC, NY
Organic Storytelling: Creative Interactions
The purpose of this workshop is to demonstrate and let teachers practice a creative interaction method of storytelling from an African tradition. Participants will receive information about the process, resources of stories, connections to standard, and school and national festivals. Examples of elementary student’s creative stories will also be examined.
Dr. Gail Herman, AEGUS, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
Analysis of Neuropsychological Data from 2e Children
This workshop focuses on research findings on the neuropsychological processing of 2e children. Results from analyses of over 100 neuropsychological profiles of intellectually gifted children will be presented, with particular emphasis on intellectual strengths and weaknesses and symptoms of ADHD.
Beth Houskamp, Professor of Graduate Psychology and Director of Pediatric Interdisciplinary Research and Practice Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA
Co-Presenters: Laura McDonald M.A. and Rhea Racaza M.A, doctoral Students, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA
Who's in My Child's Bedroom?
For parents, teachers and children, the discrepancy between demonstrable talents, skills and conceptual, moral and emotional development can be confusing. Increase our understanding, develop strategies for living with, advocating for and supporting those who live with the consequences of asynchrony. Barbara's Handout
Barbara Mitchell Hutton, Gifted Education Consultant, Broomfield, CO
Underachievement: Identifying and Overcoming the Beast
How do gifted students underachieve? Let me count the ways: insufficient effort; poor work skills; fear of failure; fear of success; striving for perfection; and more! Learn about these very common obstacles and how to avoid or overcome them.
Judy Platt, Gifted Education Consultant, Framingham, MA
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