Understanding Giftedness
The focus of this course is to help educators: understand how giftedness is defined and identified, understand the characteristics of various categories of giftedness; learn effective ways of supporting gifted academic learners in the regular classroom; support and encourage the talents of non-academically gifted students, understand and meet the needs of twice-exceptional gifted students; and finally, understand how to help parents support the needs of their gifted child at home and at school.
In this course we will answer such questions as: What is the difference between a truly gifted student and a hard-working, highly-motivated student? Are gifted students all alike?