Based on the renowned "Renzulli Method," which has been adopted in schools all over the country, LIGHT UP YOUR CHILD'S MIND presents a practical program to help children fire up a love of learning to last a lifetime. World-renowned experts Drs. Renzulli and Reis illustrate the crucial role parents can play in their children's development and address how they can work with teachers to enhance their children's education. They uncover the hidden potential of daydreamers, rebels, and one-track minds, arguing that gifted behavior--basic smarts, high levels of task commitment, and creativity--can be fostered in bright children, even unmotivated ones. Step by step, LIGHT UP YOUR CHILD'S MIND will show parents how to set their kids on the path to a rewarding future.
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Renzulli, whose model for the education of gifted children has been widely adopted, presents a program for parents to identify and foster their school-aged children's interests and abilities. Inspired in no small part by education pioneers John Dewey and Jean Piaget, he tells parents how to help their children acquire new skills and interests and fully utilize the ones they have. Every child, gifted or not, has unique talents and strengths, not always apparent in the classroom, that can be cultivated through a variety of parent-directed exercises in creative thinking and productivity. Part I of this volume investigates academic giftedness vs. out-of-the-box gifts, and looks at kids whose learning styles and intellectual curiosity go against the current definition. Part II, the bulk of the book, offers practical paths to recognizing and developing those gifts and talents, and includes bulleted lists, dialogues, checklists and evaluations, chapters full of concrete advice, dozens of ideas and activities, plus case studies of individual kids' creative-productive projects. Part III covers special considerations: the twice exceptional, i.e., kids with gifts coupled with learning disabilities, ways to reclaim the underachiever and how to partner with teachers and schools. While Renzulli's discussion of giftedness is nothing new, the authors offer excellent step-by-step advice for parents of all children. (Aug.)
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"This book is a must for parents and educators interested in helping children identify and nurture their talents, develop a love of learning, and build a strong foundation for life."--Michael Gurian, author of The Wonder of Boys and Nurture the Nature
"Drs. Renzulli and Reis have managed to penetrate many a misleading idea about children's educational needs. They have devised a wonderful and no doubt highly effective way of enabling parents to become more engaged, more active participants in the growth of their child's mind."-Dr. Mel Levine, author of A Mind at a Time
"Based on their first-hand experiences with thousands of young people, Joseph Renzulli and Sally Reis provide vivid illustrations of the many right ways to realize the potentials of all of our children."-Howard Gardner, author of Multiple Intelligences
"Drs. Renzulli and Reis have managed to penetrate many a misleading idea about children's educational needs. They have devised a wonderful and no doubt highly effective way of enabling parents to become more engaged, more active participants in the growth of their child's mind."-Dr. Mel Levine, author of A Mind at a Time
"Based on their first-hand experiences with thousands of young people, Joseph Renzulli and Sally Reis provide vivid illustrations of the many right ways to realize the potentials of all of our children."-Howard Gardner, author of Multiple Intelligences
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Light Up Your Child's MInd,
By Libby's Literary Library "Libby" (Louisiana, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Light Up Your Child's Mind: Finding a Unique Pathway to Happiness and Success (Hardcover)
This book is broken down into 3 parts:
1. What Is This Thing Called Giftedness? 2. Practical Paths To Developing Your Child's Gifts And Talents. 3. Special Considerations. The listings in the Appendix's/ Renzulli's Best Resources, are extremely detailed. Light Up Your Child's Mind, is filled with practical information, written for the average reader. There are "Questionnaires", "Management Plans", and "Product Suggestions". I would highly recommend this book, to anyone (parent, grandparents, teachers) who has, or deals with children... especially those with exceptionalities! I wish that I had had this book while my children were growing up. I truly believe that it would have been a real help to my husband and I... and to our children - many of whom were classified as gifted. All of our children were very bright, but a few had learning disabilities, and I feel that they did not always get the support and guidance that they needed...from us or from their teachers. Light Up Your Child's Mind gets a big 2 thumbs up from me! (First reviewed at Libby's Library News [...]
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This book was recommended by the headmaster of our children's school. Like a lot of good books, I almost constantly found myself thinking "Oh, that's why that kids do that" or "Ohhh, that's why that doesn't work." It just made so much common sense. I wish every parent and educator would read this book. We're so quick to lump kids into a couple of categories - smart, average, or heaven forbid, stupid. This book reminds us that we all have strengths and weaknesses and teaches how to reach even the kids who have been shoved into the "stupid" category. Highly recommend it.
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Developing your child's gifts and talents in a positive way,
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Light Up Your Child's Mind, presents a practical guide for teachers and parents to help their children "light up" a love of learning forever. This is an easy read and is well organized into three different sections: What is this thing called giftedness, Practical paths to developing your child's gifts and talents, and Special Considerations. Gifted children with learning disabilities are known as "twice exceptional." In the educational system a child marked both "gifted" and "learning disabled" is rare. Most children are labeled as either remedial and special needs or honors and college prep. Rarely are these children viewed as a combination of the two. Most educators do not expect a gifted child to have dyslexia or even realize that a child with ADHD (attention deficit disorder) might also be brilliant in creative writing or calculus. Identifying a child as twice exceptional is very difficult since these children may be compensating for and masking their learning disability, and in turn their disabilities may disguise their giftedness. Dr Renzulli and Dr. Reis write about the crucial role parents and educators can play in their children's development. They discuss that intelligence; creativity and motivation to achieve can be fostered in bright children, even unmotivated ones. The book provides tips on how to identify and encourage giftedness in children, while still helping the child succeed within the educational system. An entire section is devoted to resources and suggestions on where to go to help your child develop constructive and interesting projects within his or her area of giftedness and interests. These include: * Mentors-in-print * Web site enrichment activities * Contests and competitions Originally, I borrowed the book from the library, but then ended up buying it since I found this chapter on resources to be extremely valuable. I now have the book on my desk so that whenever my students need a stimulating activity to work on (other than video games or television) I use the book as a reference guide. Raising a gifted child and developing those gifts requires a parent or teacher that is open minded, flexible and ready to invest the time and effort needed. Gifted children all have unique strengths and interests that should be recognized and developed.
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