Courses 1 &5 NOW AVAILABLE FOR ENROLMENTS
1. Understanding Giftedness: An Introduction
3. Understanding Giftedness: Education, the Brain, and Neuroscience
2. Understanding Giftedness: Expanding Our Knowledge
An introduction to many of the key questions and answers that people search for when they are first introduced to the construct of giftedness, including identification, what it means for education, friendships, the future, and available support.
2. Understanding Giftedness: Expanding Our Knowledge
3. Understanding Giftedness: Education, the Brain, and Neuroscience
2. Understanding Giftedness: Expanding Our Knowledge
We examine differences between enrichment and acceleration, hidden gifted, complexities for students with ASD, Asperger’s Syndrome, the importance of cultural understanding; and strategies to support your gifted person –at home, school, and at work.
3. Understanding Giftedness: Education, the Brain, and Neuroscience
3. Understanding Giftedness: Education, the Brain, and Neuroscience
4. Understanding Giftedness: Sensitivities, Overexcitabilities, and Dąbrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration
We examine the history of IQ testing, whether intelligence is fixed, the Flynn Effect, and how understanding elements of neuroscience may help you support a gifted person at school, home, or work.
4. Understanding Giftedness: Sensitivities, Overexcitabilities, and Dąbrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration
4. Understanding Giftedness: Sensitivities, Overexcitabilities, and Dąbrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration
4. Understanding Giftedness: Sensitivities, Overexcitabilities, and Dąbrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration
Gifted people may experience heightened sensitivities. We examine these including, how they relate to the Overexcitabilities, how these in turn fit with Dąbrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration; and what this might mean for your gifted person.
5. Understanding Giftedness: Social and Emotional needs, Tall Poppies, and Wisdom
4. Understanding Giftedness: Sensitivities, Overexcitabilities, and Dąbrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration
5. Understanding Giftedness: Social and Emotional needs, Tall Poppies, and Wisdom
As a result of asynchronous development, the social and emotional needs of gifted people may need some special consideration, and once at peace with ‘giftedness’, what role in the world might our gifted people play?