Nature and Needs

• How To Let Your Brain Exhale
• Brain Needs or Heart Needs

  Reflect on these eight common complaints of gifted students and consider one to move forward with in your own practice.

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  1. First, you’ll make some predictions: what do you think gifted students complain about? Psst: it’s not just about academics!

  2. Now, note which of the eight gripes are “brain needs” and which are “heart needs.” Also, which ones are most surprising to you?

  3. Finally, we go through several of the gripes and wonder: what is one gripe that you could move forward with?

• Unexpected Intensities

  Develop an understanding of how students’ intensities can lead to richer lives.

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  1. Intellectual Intensity

  2. Imaginational Intensity

  3. Emotional Intensity

  4. Sensory Intensity

  5. Psychomotor Intensity

• Addressing Disorganization

  You’ll learn several practical tactics for helping students become more organized.

• Asynchrony (For Adults)

  Become familiar with the trait of asynchrony.

• Reduce Anxiety: 5 Question Rule

  Adults will help students reduce anxiety through the 5 Question Rule.

• Reduce Anxiety: Worry Time

  Adults will learn to reduce students’ anxiety with the tool Worry Time.

• Students and Personality Types

  Understand several personality dimensions and how they can cause conflict between students (and teachers!).

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  1. How do you recharge? Being around people or being alone?

  2. How do you reach a solution? With lots of data or with intuition?

  3. Do you like to plan and plan and plan… or just kinda improvise?

  4. Do you make decisions with logic or with emotion?

  5. Combine all four traits to reach a personality type.

• Multipotentiality: Excellent at Many Things

  Become familiar with the sometimes surprising effects of multipotentiality.

• Impostor Syndrome

  Learn about why highly-capable students might think they’re not very good at all.