Education Outside of the Box: Homeschooling Your Gifted or Twice-Exceptional Child

Autor/inn/en	Goodwin, Corin Barsily; Gustavson, Mika
Titel	Education Outside of the Box: Homeschooling Your Gifted or Twice-Exceptional Child
Quelle	In: Understanding Our Gifted, 24 (2012) 4, S.8-11 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1040-1350
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Gifted; Home Schooling; Cognitive Style; Educational Practices + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Begabter, Hoch Begabter; Homeschooling; Home instruction; ; Hausunterricht; Heimschule; Cognitive styles; Kognitiver Stil; Bildungspraxis
Abstract	Gifted children are children first, and they have educational and social-emotional needs that run all over the map. Anyone who knows gifted children is familiar with the sudden shifts within a child who might be doing high school level scientific study, handwriting at a third grade level, display the wit and wisdom of a middle aged adult, and throw tantrums like a small child. Put two of these children together and they might create a world-changing invention while arguing over hurt feelings and chocolate chip cookies. Even more crazy-making is that each gifted child is asynchronous in their own way, and some may be what they call "twice exceptional" (2e)--gifted and also having learning differences or other emotional or mental health disorders. Because the needs of gifted children can vary so widely within the population, finding a comfortable place for them to grow and thrive both educationally and socially can be especially challenging. For children with greater asynchronies, this challenge becomes commensurately more difficult. For parents seeking an option with the flexibility to tailor an education to the child's needs, homeschooling usually works quite well. Until the past decade or so, homeschooling has been considered a "fringe" approach to education. In this article, the authors discuss the benefits of homeschooling to the gifted or twice-exceptional child and the parents. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	AppleCore Communications. P.O. Box 40, Tamworth, NH 03886. Tel: 603-662-8252; Web site: http://www.ourgifted.com
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10