KENTUCKY ASSOCIATION FOR GIFTED EDUCATION
FALL WORKSHOP 2009
Making Developmental Sense of Giftedness
with Jean Petereson, Ph.D.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Hyatt Regency Lexington
Lexington, KY
To download a copy of the workshop flier in .pdf, click here.
Click here to register online.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM:
Giftedness is a complex overlay and can be both asset and burden, but performance or non-performance may narrowly preoccupy educators, peers, and even parents. Gifted students themselves may be reluctant to reveal their inner world, according to Dr. Peterson’s own extensive research. Yet social and emotional development, with implications for students’ well-being, is usually not addressed directly in programs. Counselors and psychologists, too, may lack specific information about pertinent characteristics, perhaps even inappropriately pathologizing some of them. The non-asset, “dark” side of giftedness, for both high and low achievers, is actually not discussed much in the field in general-or psychoeducationally with students themselves. Using family-system, school-system, and developmental lenses and avoiding simplistic cause-effect and stereotypical thinking, Dr. Peterson will look at relationships, cultural dimensions, mental-health issues, needs, and how adults can be of assistance in and outside of the classroom when life events, transitions, and high stress affect gifted individuals. With reference to affective curriculum, she will demonstrate proactive, developmental small-group work with gifted students, whose experience of “growing up” may be qualitatively different from that of others.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
JEAN PETERSON, Ph.D., is a highly sought-after presenter on the social-emotional needs of the gifted. Dr. Peterson is Associate Professor, Counseling and Development in the Department of Education Studies at Purdue University. In her ten years as a counselor educator, she has developed and led school counseling programs in two institutions, has contributed 70 publications to the school counseling and gifted education literature, and won numerous awards in teaching, scholarship, and service. Click here for Dr. Peterson’s website.
EILA CREDIT AVAILABLE.
COST: Registration is $125 for current KAGE members, or $155 for registrants who are not a current KAGE member (complimentary membership included) or renewing membership.
ISSUES FOR LEADERS IN GIFTED EDUCATION will be held Monday, September 21 from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm at the Hyatt Regency Lexington. If you are attending the Fall 2009 Workshop on Tuesday September 22 there is no charge to attend the Issues workshop on Monday. If you are only attending the Issues for Leaders workshop, the cost is $40. Click here for a copy of the agenda for the Issues for Leaders in Gifted Education day.
PARENT NIGHT will be Monday, September 21 from 7 – 9 pm. Dr. Peterson will speak on A COUNSELOR’S PERSPECTIVE ON PARENTING GIFTED CHILDREN AND ADOLSCENTS. This event, which is co-sponsored by LexKAGE, is free and open to the public! For a .pdf of the Parent Night flier click here.
Hotel Information: Contact the Hyatt Regency Lexington at 859.253.1234, (401 West High Street, Lexington, KY). Cut-off date for the KAGE rate of $105 (plus tax) is August 31, 2009.
If you would like to receive a mailed or faxed copy of the Fall 2008 Workshop flier, please send your name, address, or fax number to kage@wku.edu or call the KAGE office at 270.745.4301.
