Gifted students have specific social and emotional needs that must be met in order for students to succeed academically. Dabrowski identifies five areas in which gifted students may become overexcited:
Some common social and emotional issues gifted students face are:
Bibliotherapy is a strategy that uses literature to help students understand and resolve their personal issues. Gifted students whose strengths lie in their ability to conceptualize and generalize will find success in bibliotherapy. After the teacher carefully selects a book to meet the social and emotional needs of her students following three stages can happen:
While this strategy does require the students to fully understand the process themselves, teachers should still play an active role. Students should be provided with follow up activities, open-ended questions, and thought provoking classroom discussions. This is will allow the students to fully understand and relate to the issues in the book and apply them to their own lives.
Here are some great resources:
This blog provides books and discussion questions that deal with perfectionism and anxiety/stress. http://giftedbibliotherapy.blogspot.com/p/dealing-with-perfectionism.html
This site provides book for grades 1-4 that deal with social issues and problem solving. It also includes some non-fiction books. http://giftedreadinglist.wikispaces.com/Resources+for+Bibliotherapy
This blog provides some more details about using bibliotherapy with gifted students. It also provides discussion questions and a book list. http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/03/using_bibliotherapy_with_gifted_children.html
Here is an activity I developed myself to address hiding giftedness:
- intellectual (avid curiosity, search for truth, extensive reading)
- pyschomotor (restless, rapid talk, nervous ticks, self-injurious behavior)
- emotional (deep relationships, need for security, heightened sense of responsibility)
- imaginational (divergent thinkers, sense of humor, maladjustment to external reality, vivid daydreams and nightmares)
- sensual (sensory integration disorder, dislike of loneliness, need for physical contact)
Some common social and emotional issues gifted students face are:
- depression
- difficulty with peer relations
- multipotentiality
- twice exceptional (gifts and needs)
- underachievement
- perfectionism
- asynchrony
- hiding giftedness
Bibliotherapy is a strategy that uses literature to help students understand and resolve their personal issues. Gifted students whose strengths lie in their ability to conceptualize and generalize will find success in bibliotherapy. After the teacher carefully selects a book to meet the social and emotional needs of her students following three stages can happen:
- Identification (student identifies with a character in the book)
- Catharsis (student develops an empathetic reaction to the events the character goes through)
- Insight (student applies learning to his/her own life in order to solve his/her own problems)
While this strategy does require the students to fully understand the process themselves, teachers should still play an active role. Students should be provided with follow up activities, open-ended questions, and thought provoking classroom discussions. This is will allow the students to fully understand and relate to the issues in the book and apply them to their own lives.
Here are some great resources:
This blog provides books and discussion questions that deal with perfectionism and anxiety/stress. http://giftedbibliotherapy.blogspot.com/p/dealing-with-perfectionism.html
This site provides book for grades 1-4 that deal with social issues and problem solving. It also includes some non-fiction books. http://giftedreadinglist.wikispaces.com/Resources+for+Bibliotherapy
This blog provides some more details about using bibliotherapy with gifted students. It also provides discussion questions and a book list. http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/03/using_bibliotherapy_with_gifted_children.html
Here is an activity I developed myself to address hiding giftedness:
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References
Karnes, F. & Bean, S. (2009) Methods and Materials for Teaching the Gifted. Waco, Tx: Prufrock Press Inc