Parenting and Teaching the Gifted - Hardcover

by Rosemary S. Callard-Szulgit (Author)

Parents of gifted students have often experienced the frustration of trying to get an appropriate education for their children in public and private schools. Teachers have equally experienced the frustration of trying to educate these students due to classroom demands. Over the past two decades, Callard-Szulgit has accumulated well over 1,000 questions asked by parents in her gifted parenting classes, her graduate students of gifted education, education colleagues, and gifted students themselves. This user-friendly book offers common sense and educationally informative answers to the questions and dilemmas that parents and teachers seek. This book will be of interest to all who seek a fair and equitable education for the gifted.

Author Biography

Rosemary Callard-Szulgit has devoted her more than forty-year career to the fair and equitable treatment of all children. She is an adjunct professor and the current field coordinator for gifted studies in the graduate online gifted certification program at the University at Buffalo. She directs the consulting firm of Partners-for-Excellence (www.partners-for-excellence.com) in Rochester, New York, and consults both nationally and internationally with gifted children, their parents, and their school districts.