Do you wish to better understand the heart of a gifted
underachieving child?
If so, then you may
be interested in the webinar hosted this week by SENG – the national
organization Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted…
The Heart of the Gifted
Underachiever
Date: Thursday June 18, 2015
(NEW DATE!)
Time: 7:30 p.m. Eastern [90 mins.]
Presenter: Josh
Shaine
Fee: $40 ($30 for SENG members)
Fee: $40 ($30 for SENG members)
In a time when even the former foremost advocate for gifted
children has turned its focus back to achievement and even eminence, where is
the place for the gifted child who is not achieving?
Educational research is filled with explanations about the impact
of expectations on our students, our children. Yet we have this set of children
for whom there were sky high expectations by teachers and parents, but whose
response bears no resemblance to the authority figures' dreams and hopes.
We will spend a little time on the history of the field, but
mostly we will look at the kids - and at the long term implications of being a
gifted "underachiever."
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Josh Shaine has
been working with gifted students of all ages for more than 25 years, including
many years teaching, administrating, advising, and sometimes directing programs
for 7th - 12th graders through MIT's Educational Studies Program.
He has taught at public, private,
and alternative schools, as well as working with special needs students who
were either at home or institutionalized for a number of public school
districts in several different states.
Shaine has served on the boards
of directors of the Hollingworth Center for Gifted Children, Kids College, the
Massachusetts Association for Gifted Children, the New England Conference for
Gifted and Talented, the NH Association for Gifted Children, and Voyagers
Homeschool Cooperative.
He currently organizes and presents at conferences around the
country, including the Beyond IQ conferences in Boston, Chicago, and the West
Coast.
