Five Levels Of Gifted

Do’s and Don’ts for Teachers of Gifted Children

a gifted girl reading a book

What every parent and teacher of gifted children should know. Photo by CDC on Unsplash This advice is relevant for teachers at any grade level. It’s original title was The Do’s and Don’ts for Teachers of Gifted Students. And, if you’re the parent of a gifted child, feel free to share this with your child’s teacher(s). That […]

Gifted Adults from the Baby Boomer Generation Talk About Social Skills

Gifted Adults from the Baby Boomer Generation Talk About Social Skills

It’s also called the EQ and IQ Connection Because Some People Navigate Those Waters More easily Than Others.  Many highly intelligent people of all ages struggle to feel they fit in or belong. I have long been interested in what makes people feel like they don’t belong. This feeling of not quite “getting it” myself […]

The 5 Levels of Gifted Children Grown Up: What They Tell Us

by Deborah Ruf
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The 5 Levels of Gifted Children Grown Up is a detailed follow-up to Dr. Deborah Ruf’s previous book, 5 Levels of Gifted: School Issues and Educational Options. In this book, Dr. Ruf explores how background…. Read More

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Dr. Delisle “I’ve finally read through the “5 Levels” update…and it is a monumental work. The amount of detail and insight you provide is unlike anything I have seen published elsewhere, and the respect you show to your 64 subjects is evident throughout. I won’t lie: I didn’t read through every one of the excerpts in each of the chapters. Instead, I read through a variety of them and then headed straight to the Summary and Conclusions portion of each chapter. It was in each of those that your synthesis of your respondents’ responses came most to life for me. Too, the Afterword was a great way to tie together the many conclusions that you reached, as well as additional questions that remain….Read More