Social and Emotional Curriculum for Gifted Students

<P>The Social and Emotional Curriculum for Gifted Students series provides the gifted resource specialist, regular classroom teacher, or counselor with the tools they need to help gifted students in grades 3-5 develop interpersonal skills, reflect on their often intense emotions, and express their creativity. The grade 4 book: </P><UL><LI>Contains five units and more than 50 hours of instruction. </LI><LI>Shares helpful directions for implementing lessons and connecting content across the curriculum. </LI><LI>Addresses psychosocial skills. </LI><LI>Features critical thinking activities, hands-on building and design, reading, writing, creativity, and math and science connections. </LI><LI>Covers relevant topics, including resilience, growth mindset, perfectionism, empathy, self-understanding and identity, friendship, and what it means to be gifted. </LI></UL><P>Each classroom-tested lesson addresses one or more affective standards from the National Association for Gifted Children, psychosocial development areas for gifted learners, and academic standards.</P>