Chapter 1: Social Identity Theory and Giftedness
Chapter 2: Socioemotional Needs of Gifted Adolescents
Chapter 3: Elitism and Social Equality
Chapter 4: Gifted Curricular Programs
Chapter 5: Differentiated Instruction
Chapter 6: Standardizing Giftedness
Chapter 7: Asset Based Approaches
Chapter 8: Teaching the Gifted
Joanna Simpson is associate professor and director of academic
programs for the College of Education at Grand Canyon
University.
Megan Adams is assistant professor and director of the Center for
Literacy and Learning at Kennesaw State University.
Understanding Gifted Adolescents: Accepting the Exceptional
provides extensive research and knowledge in regards to America’s
failing education system for the gifted. It makes a significant
contribution to the study of adolescence by discussing how
limitations on gifted children’s education are detrimental to their
development. (2018)
*Journal of Youth and Adolescence*
Educators Simpson and Adams provide an accessible guide for parents
and teachers on supporting and advocating for gifted students, with
a special focus on those who are under recognized because of
poverty, race, or ethnicity.... The authors’ intentions are
excellent, and the text is enlivened with stories and imparts
enthusiasm for the subject.... Summing Up: Recommended. All
levels/libraries.
*CHOICE*
Understanding Gifted Adolescents: Accepting the Exceptional helps
one understand gifted adolescents and how acceptance is necessary
to ensure success. Studies throughout put emphasis on the effects
that environment, curricular choices, elitism, marginalization, and
social inequality all play on adolescents’ futures in a positive or
negative way depending on the circumstances of each. In doing so,
the text does a great service to developmental research focusing on
adolescence.... This book does more than challenge researchers. It
offers advice and insight on past research for parents and
educators to devise plans and methods of ways to help their gifted
adolescents receive emotional support while also making sure they
advocate for the adolescents to receive the education that best
fits their gifted abilities. (2017)
*Journal of Youth and Adolescence*
Understanding Gifted Adolescents: Accepting the Exceptional helps
one understand gifted adolescents and how acceptance is necessary
to ensure success. Studies throughout put emphasis on the effects
that environment, curricular choices, elitism, marginalization, and
social inequality all play on adolescents’ futures in a positive or
negative way depending on the circumstances of each. In doing so,
the text does a great service to developmental research focusing on
adolescence.... This book does more than challenge researchers. It
offers advice and insight on past research for parents and
educators to devise plans and methods of ways to help their gifted
adolescents receive emotional support while also making sure they
advocate for the adolescents to receive the education that best
fits their gifted abilities. (2017)
*Journal of Youth and Adolescence*
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the most up-to-date
research regarding gifted adolescents and their social-emotional
development. Simpson and Adams indulge the reader by providing
gifted student scenarios with helpful tips to deal with gifted
tendencies.
*Patty Messer, The Odyssey Preparatory Academy*
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