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    The Gifted Teenager's Survivalguide
    The Gifted Teenager's Survivalguide
    The Gifted Teenager's Survivalguide
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    The Gifted Teenager's Survivalguide

    By Jessica Colins

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    As a gifted teenager you're different from others. Teachers, classmates, even your parents don't understand you. Sometimes you don't understand yourself that well either. This book is full of tips to get through secondary school. How do you deal with fear of failure and hypersensitivity? What if you're not motivated? How do you deal with bullies? And what to do if you know better than the teacher? Jessica Colins is an orthopedagogue and expert in the field of giftedness. She has a private practice, where she works with gifted children and adolescents. This guide has been created in collaboration with some of them. They provided the book with their vision and anecdotes about the topics discussed.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUitgeverij Pluspunt
    Release dateFeb 1, 2021
    ISBN9781005400712
    The Gifted Teenager's Survivalguide
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    Jessica Colins

    Jessica werkt met kinderen die het thuis of op school moeilijk hebben. Ze hebben bijvoorbeeld ADHD, autisme, hoogbegaafdheid, dyslexie of faalangst, of groeien op onder bijzondere omstandigheden. Voor deze kinderen schrijft Jessica haar boeken: zodat zij ook eens een boek kunnen lezen met een hoofdpersoon die op hen lijkt. Ze kunnen zich in de hoofdpersoon herkennen en zien hoe deze met zijn of haar problemen omgaat. Humor en avontuur worden hierbij natuurlijk niet uit de weg gegaan, want een boek moet vooral leuk zijn om te lezen!

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      The Gifted Teenager's Survivalguide - Jessica Colins

      The Gifted Teenager’s Survival Guide

      Tips for the interaction with

      classmates, teachers, parents and yourself

      Jessica Colins

      Copyright First Edition 2015

      Copyright Smashwords Edition 2021

      All rights reserved

      Contents

      Preface

      Chapter 1: When teachers don’t understand you

      What if you know better?

      You must have been cheating!

      What a waste!

      Boredom

      Chapter 2: When classmates don’t understand you

      Nerd!

      Different

      Interests

      Bullying

      Chapter 3: When your parents don’t understand

      Interests

      Homework

      Career choices

      Feelings

      Chapter 4: Underachieving

      Fear of failure

      Not wanting to stand out

      Studying? How?

      I just don’t feel like it

      Chapter 5: Highly sensitive

      Empathy

      Criticism

      Not fair!

      The world upon your shoulders

      Chapter 6: The benefits of being gifted

      Creativity

      Speed

      Be what you want

      Pride!

      Thanx

      Preface

      Being a teen is not easy. Under the influence of hormones teenagers become more selfaware and start taking more interest in how other people view them. Classmates’ opinions are especially important. The parent-child relationship changes. The teenager wants more independence, while the parents are not always convinced that their teen is ready for that. School starts at an unchristian hour, even though the teen tends to go to sleep late, and once at home there’s homework to be done.

      Gifted teenagers have an additional problem. Their classmates simply don’t understand them sometimes, just like their teachers and parents. And often, they don’t quite understand themselves. All this can lead to depression and bullying by classmates. This survival guide aims to help gifted teenagers out a little, by offering tips to deal with school, parents and themselves.

      Chapter 1:

      When teachers don’t understand you

      In teacher training there is relatively little attention for giftedness. As a result, most teachers are not sufficiently aware of the problems gifted teenagers can face. They don’t recognize the teen as being gifted, but regard him as cheeky or hyperactive or don’t notice anything unusual in the incognito Einstein. Although more attention is now being paid to differentiation, many teachers in secondary education still work from the principle that everyone is equal in their needs.

      Quite often gifted youngsters have lost a big part of their motivation in primary school, but when secondary education is in sight their expectations rise: finally they will be able to learn something. They expect to enjoy all the different subjects, teachers and classrooms. Still, it is possible they learn nothing new in the first two years of middle school. And in the subjects they didn’t have before, like French or Spanish, they have to cram long lists of vocabulary into their heads, which is usually not something gifted kids enjoy. First of all, they think it’s boring. Second of all, they never learned how to cram. Boredom and fear of failure can rise (again). When the kid gets a bad mark, because of fear of failure, the teacher can think it’s because he didn’t study, which can lead to major frustrations in the teenager. The teacher may not be very appreciative of the fact that the teen rather doesn’t study and gets an F (because if you don’t study, you can’t fail), than works hard and gets a lower mark than he wished for. An A instead of an A+ can be a huge dissapointment for a perfectionist and he’d rather not answer a question at al than risk getting the answer wrong.

      Asking many, many questions seems to be natural to gifted kids. Not because they don’t understand the subject matter, but because they want to know more. They want to understand exactly how something works. Teachers can interpret these questions at relatively simple subjects as a lack of

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