The importance of emotional well-being of the gifted child - what do we need to know?
Presenter: Liz Kelly, M.Ed(gifted ed.), Grad Dip Ed Studs (gifted), BA (Hons), Dip Ed.
Gifted children need support to help them to understand themselves and to view their cognitive abilities and emotional intensities as strengths. Highly able children have a different lens on the world from the average child; they feel things more keenly; their sense of justice is heightened; everything seems intense and immediate.
How children learn to become emotionally competent is through being parented by parents who really ‘see’ their children’s inner subjective awareness (1); who can soothe in ways that are congruent with how the child is feeling; help the child to problem solve appropriately and thus help the child to become secure as a result.
The complexity of the gifted child’s emotional life is often misunderstood by teachers and schools as being indicative of immaturity or dysfunction.
Free for AGATEVic members and teachers of AGATEVic member schools.
Zoom session: details will be emailed to registered participants
Non members $10.