Category: Teachers

Parenting a Gifted Teen: Social and Emotional Issues


Ephrata Area School District

Secondary Gifted Parent Night

Parenting a Gifted Teen: Social and Emotional Issues

 

When:             Wednesday, April 3, 6-7 p.m.

Where:            Ephrata Area Middle School Media Center

957 Hammon Ave. Ephrata PA 17522

Format:          Presenter: Angel Eshleman, Ephrata School Psychologist

 

 Parenting a Gifted Teen: Social and Emotional Issues

 Description:  If you are the parent of a gifted student, you already know about the joys and challenges of raising your child. This presentation will highlight the social and emotional challenges of gifted students with a focus on secondary-age issues. Gifted students are a diverse group of individuals with considerable strength and resilience but also with unique challenges.  Often these challenges are overlooked or misunderstood, and students’ needs go unmet.   We’ll be talking about ways that you can be supportive to your gifted teen and help them to use their strengths to reach their full potential.

Please RSVP to Lori Hatt 717-721-1150 Ext 0

or email at  l_hatt@easdpa.org  by March 28, 2013

 

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact:

Susan Summers-Steffy  (721-1150)

Coordinator of Student Services

Ephrata Area School District.

 

 

 

Call All Girls!

Calling on all girl budding rocket scientists

10 September, 2012 in Headlines, Latest News by Intl Team Leader

You are an inventor 2013 Contest

Download contest poster

If you met a real astronaut, what questions would you ask? Some lucky teenage girl(s) will have a chance to ponder about that in April 2013 but, first, they need to conceive a winning invention.

After discovering the world of science during her preparation leading up to her flight in space in 1963, Valentina Tereshkova studied to earn a doctorate in physics. However, as we prepare to celebrate this important milestone, the lack of female scientists continues to be reflected in the women unfriendliness of many products.

As a salute to all the pioneer female scientists and to spark vocations, we are launching the ‘You are an inventor’ contest. The top prize? A conversation with real astronauts.

To win this amazing once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, teenage girls from around the world will have to fulfill a mission: conceive a new padding system or a new type of adjustable space suit that improves freedom of movement for tomorrow’s space explorers.

Whether their concept is selected as the winning concept or not, each participant will receive an official Inventor Certificate that includes from female space scientists and astronauts from around the world. If their concept makes it to the finals, their work will be exhibited at museums around the world.

What a rewarding opportunity to practice being a rocket scientist!

To learn all the details about entering the contest or download a poster, please visit the ‘You are an inventor’ contest webpage.

Entry deadline is February 8 2013.

Enrichment Extension for Gifted Students

 

Ephrata Area School District

K-12 Gifted Parent Night

 

Enrichment Opportunities for Gifted Students

When:             Wednesday, October 19, 6 pm.

Where:           Ephrata Area Middle School Media Center

957 Hammon Ave. Ephrata PA 17522

Format:          Presenter: Linda Deal

 

Enrichment Extension for Gifted Students

 

Description:  Go beyond the school day with activities that will blend school content with community, family and fun opportunities.  A series of different strategies and ideas that will appeal to students of different ages and interests will trigger a list of possible enrichment to use for one minute or half a day.

 

Please feel free to bring your students and other children.

 

Please RSVP to Lori Hatt 717-721-1150 Ext 0 or email at  l_hatt@easdpa.org  by October 17, 2011

 

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact:

Susan Summers-Steffy  (721-1150)

Coordinator of Student Services

Ephrata Area School District.

Dr. James Delisle

Dr. James Delisle will present Doing Poorly on Purpose: Underachievement and the Quest for Dignity on Thursday, November 17, 2011, at The Conference & Training Center at IU-13 (1020 New Holland Avenue, Lancaster, PA 17601).  The fee is $15 per person.  Pre-registration is required to:

Lindsay Risser

(717) 606-1762

lindsey_risser@iu13.org

Here is an overview from the flier:

Most of the “antidotes” for reversing academic underachievement in gifted adolescents
are punitive and disrespectful.  It’s no surprise, then, that they are also ineffective and
emotionally debilitating.  This session provides a new look at “underachievement” from
the eye of the students who wear this label.  A series of suggestions and solutions that
can be applied at home and in school will be offered, each one bearing a similar  
foundation: preserving the dignity of students who choose to perform poorly on purpose.  

Dr. Jim Delisle has taught gifted children and those who work on their behalf for more
than 30 years.  The author of more than 250 articles and 16 books including The Gifted
Kids Survival Guide: A Teen Handbook, Jim’s work has been translated into multiple  
languages.  He has been featured in professional journals, The New York Times and on
The Oprah Winfrey Show.  A frequent presenter on gifted children’s intellectual and  
emotional growth, Jim has addressed audiences in 48 states and in nations as diverse as
England, Greece, China, and Saudi Arabia.  His new Teen Survival Guide is being released
this summer, and he has just been contracted to write a book entitled, Saving Smart
Kids: American Educational Reform and the Crisis for Gifted Education.