Monthly Archives: October 2012
#gtchat:Special Guest, Lisa Van Gemert
Our most recent guest on #gtchat was Lisa Van Gemert, nationally recognized speaker on gifted education, provider of professional development for teachers and Gifted Youth Specialist for American Mensa.
A former gifted student herself, Lisa’s background has included teacher and administrator as well as parent. In her own words, “So many GT educators are GT themselves … I think it’s what makes parents of GT kids so passionate, too. We all have post-traumatic gifted kid disorder.”
Lisa pointed out that the importance of professional development for teachers of gifted learners lies in the fact that, “Many teachers are expected to teach kids who are learning foreigners to them.” In response to concerns raised in teacher/parent trainings, she wrote her ‘Stealth Giftedness’ Series. (Link below)
Lisa will be conducting 3 presentations at this year’s TAGT ’12 Professional Development Conference in Dallas, November 28 – 30. They include “Deliberate Excellence and the Creative Prescription”, “Addressing the Triple Threat: Perfectionism, Lack of Internal Motivation and Boredom” (excerpt: “A GT child going to school day after day learning nothing is not boredom – it’s cognitive abuse.”) and “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me: Tapping into the Power of Your Memory”. (A link to the conference registration can be found below.)
Interested in reading the full transcript from this chat? It can be found here. Want to check out all the links tweeted out during the chat? See below. Thinking you shouldn’t miss the next #gtchat on Twitter? Join us each Friday at 7PM ET/6PM CT for the best hour on Twitter for educators and parents of gifted children; and gifted adults as well. Be sure to follow @gtchatmod on Twitter for all the latest news on #gtchat. We are the pulse of the gifted community!
Links:
Lisa’s blog, Gifted Guru
Lisa, Gifted Youth Specialist at American Mensa
Lisa on Pinterest
From @gifted_guru Stealth Giftedness
From @cybraryman1 Motivation and Student Engagement Page
From @gifted_guru Perfectionism Presentation
From @cvalvarez Profiles of the Gifted & Talented
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Overexcitablilities of Gifted Adults
Teacher Jen Martin summed up this week’s chat in the closing minutes with this tweet, “OEs (Overexcitabilities) makes us who we are. Embrace it!” It was an ‘exciting’ chat from start to finish with over 440 tweets in one hour (with many additional tweets and conversations on Facebook afterwards).
Participants discussed exactly what overexcitabilities were, how they affected their lives both positively and negatively, how it affected their parenting and strategies on how to deal with them. A full transcript can be found at Storify.
Next week, #gtchat welcomes guest, Lisa Van Gemert, Gifted Youth Specialist from American Mensa. Lisa will be presenting at the TAGT Conference in Dallas this year. Her topics will include: “Deliberate Excellence and the Creativity Prescription”, “Addressing the Triple Threat: Perfectionism, Lack of Internal Motivation and Boredom” and “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me: Tapping Into the Power of Your Memory”.
Please set aside an hour this week on Friday at 6PM CT to join us for this special chat!
Links:
Sprite’s Site, “Delta Dog”
Sprite’s Site, “Be Creative with the Dabrowski Dogs”
“Dabrowski’s Over-excitabilities – A Layman’s Explanation” from Stephanie Tolan
“Emotional Intensity and Overexcitabilities” Gifted Parenting Support
Mellow Out, They Say, If I Only Could. Book from Michael Piechowski (Amazon)
From @HoagiesGifted “Dabrowski’s Overexcitabilities”
“Overexcitability and the Gifted” from SENG
“Emotional Life & Psychotherapy of the Gifted in Light of Dabrowski’s Theory” (pdf) h
“Overexcitabilities and Sensitivities” (pdf)
“Intellectual Overexcitability in Action”
“Channeling Intensity Through Creative Expression”
From @DouglasEby “Steve Jobs: Intensities and Overexcitabilities”
“Gifted Adults Are Different from an Early Age” from @DouglasEby
“Misdiagnosis of Gifted Adults: Development on the Edge” from @DouglasEby
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Exploring New Family Enrichment Activities
Participants from 13 states and 5 countries joined #gtchat to discuss family enrichment activities. Manynew faces and some old friends shared links to some amazing activities. A new acronym was coined during the chat, TTFN – made famous by Tigger of Winnie-the-Pooh – now stands for (at least during #gtchat) Thank Twitter it’s Friday Night (thanks to Jack Hanford).
Some of the ideas shared included geocaching, traveling, touring local ethnic food stores and eateries, and virtual tours via Google street view and underwater view. For a more extensive review of this chat, please go to our page on TAGT’s website for the transcript which is posted Monday mornings following each chat.
Links:
From @HoagiesGifted ‘Geocaching: The Sport for Gifted Kids of All Ages’
Geocaching (website)
What is geocaching? (video)
From @HoagiesGifted ‘Life in the Asynchronous Family’
From @stacitaylortex ~ “Around the World in Our Town”
From @susannewith5 ~ “Don’t Eat Jack” a timely Halloween activity
“Enrichment for Gifted & Talented Children”
From @NAGCBritain “Enrichment and Out-of-School Activities”
From Northwestern’s @CTDatNU ~ GLL ‘Family Program K-2”
Enrichment Activities and Resources for Gifted Children
From @cybraryman1 My Robotics Page
From @cybraryman1 Parent – Child Activities
From @cybraryman1 My Dance Page
From @jofrei The Art of Conversation
From @cybraryman1 My Cooking and Recipes Page
From @cybraryman1 My Insects Page
From @cybraryman1 Family Events
From @cybraryman1 Music Page
From @HoagiesGifted Art, Theater & Music Links
From @cybraryman1 My Geocaching (Orienteering)Page
From @cybraryman1 QR Code Page
From @LesLinks On Giftedness, a Few Activities, a Little Fun and keeping the Spark Alive
From @HoagiesGifted Smart Strategy Games
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#gtchat Showcase of TAGT ’12 Speakers: Dr. Carolyn Coil
On Friday, October 5th, #gtchat hosted the first in a series of chats with speakers at the upcoming TAGT ’12 Conference in Dallas, TX this November 28th through the 30th which will include both educators and parents. Participants at chat were from 13 states and 4 countries.
Dr. Carolyn Coil was our guest and she talked about two presentations she will be giving at the conference ~ “21st Century Self-Management Skills for Gifted Students” and “Advanced Activities/Assessments Focusing on Rigor, Higher-Level Thinking & Problem Solving”. Carolyn’s remarks were well received by chat participants with many retweets throughout the session. Brian Housand, a former student of Carolyn’s and a speaker at the TAGT Conference, was present and added many valuable comments as well.
Links:
Assessing Gifted Assessment Tools
Carolyn Coil’s website
Carolyn Coil at Pieces of Leaning
Standards-Based Activities & Assessments for the Differentiated Classroom (pdf)
Standards-Based Activities & Assessments for the Differentiated Classroom (video)
Carolyn Coil at #TAGT2012 Annual Conference
An Introduction to Differentiation (Carolyn Coil’s Blog)
Ideas on ProjectBasedLearning from Edutopia
