Product Description

Underachievement in gifted students has long puzzled teachers, parents, and students themselves. For gifted underachievers to change their habits and begin to succeed in school, educators must take action to identify, challenge, and motivate these kids. Sylvia Rimm, one of the leading experts in the underachievement of gifted students, looks at the various causes of underachievement, discusses the characteristics of gifted underachievers, and provides educators with solid advice on combating underachievement in this population. This guide offers guidance for understanding the pressures students face in school and at home, motivating students for success, adjusting curriculum to engage these students, improving the self-concept of students, and working with parents to reverse the patterns of underperformance.

This book gives teachers tips for grouping gifted students in and out of the classroom and provides a menu of options for serving gifted students.

This is one of the books in Prufrock Press’ popular Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education. This series offers a unique collection of tightly focused books that provide a concise, practical introduction to important topics concerning the education of gifted children. The guides offer a perfect beginner's introduction to key information about gifted and talented education.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #426600 in Books
• Published on: 2005-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 72 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781593631932
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Sylvia Rimm is a child psychologist who directs the Family Achievement Clinic in Cleveland, OH, and is a clinical professor at Case School of Medicine. Her specialty area of practice is gifted underachievers. She has authored many articles and books, including Rescuing the Emotional Lives of Overweight Children, How to Parent So Children Will Learn, Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades—And What You Can Do About It, Raising Preeschoolers, See Jane Win, How Jane Won, and See Jane Win for Girls. See Jane Win was a New York Times bestseller and was featured on the Oprah Winfrey and Today shows and in People magazine. She also is coauthor with Gary A. Davis of Education of the Gifted and Talented, which is now in its fifth edition.

Dr. Rimm’s parenting column is syndicated nationally through Creators Syndicate. A favorite personality on public radio for many years, she has also made countless appearences on national television and as a regular contributing correspondent for 9 years on NBC’s Today show. She serves on the board of directors for the National Association for Gifted Children.

Customer Reviews

An Educated Choice
Dr. Rrimm's counsel is on target. There are children who test out "gifted." And they do tend to often underacheive. "So what to do?" This is the setting for the book. Her diagnosis and treatment ideas seem well grounded, quite practical, free of Rogerian and Freudian pscho-therapeutic mindlessness, and better described as good old common sense. It was helpful to us and my wife and I read it and appeciated it. Worth more than the price of the book.