{"id":212,"date":"2014-06-04T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/advancedlearning\/?page_id=212"},"modified":"2021-10-09T07:45:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T14:45:28","slug":"understanding-advanced-learners","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/advancedlearning\/understanding-advanced-learners\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Advanced Learners"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The 8 Great Gripes of Gifted Students<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">1. No one explains what being gifted is all about.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">2. The stuff we do in school is too easy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">3. People expect us to be perfect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">4. Kids tease us about being smart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">5. There are few friends who really understand us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">6. We feel different and wish people would accept us as we are.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">7. We feel overwhelmed by the number of things we can do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">8. We worry about world problems and feel helpless to do anything.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">More Information:\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cExperiencing in a Higher Key: Dabrowski\u2019s Theory of and for Gifted\u201d by Michael Piechowski, published in\u00a0Gifted Education Coordinator\u00a0Spring 2002.\u00a0<em>Specifically addresses the social emotional needs of gifted students. <\/em><em><em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/advancedlearning\/files\/2014\/06\/PiechowskiHigherKey5.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Social Emotional Needs of Gifted Students<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Overexcitability\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/advancedlearning\/overexcitability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Overexcitabilities<\/a> &#8212; information about overexcitabilities or personality traits associated with highly-able learners<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sengifted.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SENG<\/a> is dedicated to fostering environments in which gifted adults and children, in all their diversity, understand and accept themselves and are understood, valued, nurtured, and supported by their families, schools, workplaces and communities. <a title=\"Supporting the Emotinal Needs of Gifted\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sengifted.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 8 Great Gripes of Gifted Students 1. No one explains what being gifted is all about. 2. The stuff we do in school is too easy. 3. People expect us to be perfect. 4. Kids tease us about being smart. 5. There are few<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/advancedlearning\/understanding-advanced-learners\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8692,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/advancedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/212"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/advancedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/advancedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/advancedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/advancedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/advancedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4281,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/advancedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/212\/revisions\/4281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/advancedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}