Building Resilience Skills for Gifted and Talented Students

The participants of the course are invited to participate in practice based exploration and design activities throughout the sessions. Exchange of best practices as well as the group presentation of the collaboratively designed tasks that aim the development of different skills at varying levels will be among the requirements of the course. The participants might find it useful to read some of the below listed reading material before joining the training as well:

• Bertin, M. (2018). How children thrive: the practical science of raising independent, resilient, and happy kids. Sounds True Pub.
• Daniels, S. and Piechowski, M. M. (2008). Linving with intensity: understanding the sensitivity, excitability, and the emotional development of gifted. Great Potential Pr., Inc.
• Hanson, R. and Hanson, F. (2018). Resilient: How to grow an unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. USA: Random House.
• Kitano, M. K. and Lewis, R. B. (2010). Resilience and coping: Implications for gifted children and youth at risk. Roper Review, 27:4, 200-205.
• Kline, M. (2020). Brain-Changing strategies to trauma proof our schools: A heartcentered movement for wiring well-being. California: North Atlantic Books.
• Leana-Tascilar, M. Z. (2021). Using bibliotherapy as a technique to understand gifted children in Academic Research and Reviews in Educational Science, Kızılaslan, A. (Ed.) Duvar Publishing.
• Neihart, M. (2015). The social emotional development of gifted children: what do we know? (2^nd edition) Routledge.
• Panilio, C. C. (2019). Trauma-informed schools: Integrating child maltreatment prevention, detection, and intervention. USA: Springer International Pub.
• Schiraldi, G. R. (2017). The resilience workbook: essential skills to recover from stress, trauma, and adversity. New Harbinger Publications.

Building resilience skills for gifted and talented students course purpose is to develop foundational skills for setting up a resilience based program that meets the social-emotional needs of gifted students. The course will introduce the characteristics of gifted students, their special social emotional needs, their possible trauma related experiences and the term resilience. The course promises to teach many of the most important resilience strategies and activities that the school counselors and school psychologists can use in school setting.

This course allows participants to get to know, experiment and practice Building resilience skills for gifted and talented students with a practical focus on the most innovative aspects of tasks- in a safe and truly international learning environment, through discussing and sharing best practices with fellow school counselors and school psychologists from across Europe. With its highly interactive and practice-based structure, the course aims to provide concrete examples, ideas and tools to inspire and support school counselors and school psychologists in their school based experiences.

The training takes on a highly practical and participative perspective with hands-on approach that comprises an examination of social emotional needs of gifted students practices, design of activities for resiliency and collaborative thinking/evaluation routines. We embrace collaboratively working methods that foster mutual learning and cooperation among participants. The focus of the training is on learning in an interactive and international environment applying knowledge of task types and task design to the real contexts and/or in the school setting. A wide array of pedagogical methods based upon experiential training, group and peer activities, learning-by-doing and best practices’ exchange are employed throughout the course.

This course aims to provide psychological counselors, school psychologists and special education specialists with the much needed know-how to design and implement resilience based practices with gifted students.

Therefore, upon successful completion of the course, the participants will be able to:

• Get acquainted with the main components and tenets of social emotional needs of gifted students
• Identify trauma based needs to support gifted students in school setting
• Learn how to design, prepare and deliver interactive resilience tasks for gifted students at school
• Learn about the psycho-social needs of the gifted students and motivate them to get rid of the difficulties
• Construct tasks for social emotional needs of gifted students
• Exchange good practices and discuss challenges with fellow colleagues and the course trainers

The participants will be required to develop and share their own tasks for a gifted student with social emotional difficulties, to be followed by a structured feedback session. Additionally, given a chance to network with individuals and organizations working in the education field in Europe through everyday cooperation and team-building activities, the participants might further their practice on tasks by extended experience sharing sessions.

This standard indicative daily programme might be personalized on participants’ needs and professional profiles. Networking, preparation and team build up activities to be located on the first day; and follow up, specific needs and cultural activities on the last day.

Istanbul University – Cerrahpaşa Continuing Education Center

Date	Course Times	Course Content
Day1		Introduction Building Resilience Skills for Gifted and Talented Students Course Introduction Teambuilding exercises Needs and expectations evaluation The Rationale of the course Group works and plenary discussion on how the most common challenges that participants are facing with their gifted students
Day2		Introducing Social Emotional Needs of Gifted and Talented Students Perfectionism Asynchronous development High expectations Coping with anxiety Underachievement Twice exceptional students and their social emotional needs Characteristics of students with trauma Characteristics of students with resilience skills Producing an Information Sheet on gifted students with social emotional needs.
Day3		Introducing Resilience for gifted and talented students How the resilient brain works Emotions, attitudes Meeting the needs (safety, satisfaction, connection).
Day4		How to integrate resilience practices with gifted students in your school Practicing, designing and delivering resilience tasks for gifted students Practical group work and exercise Practicing bibliotherapy for resilience with gifted students Writing an action plan for your school to improve resilience for gifted students
Day5		Integrating Tasks into your Practice Strategies and tools to build resilience in gifted students Designing resilience tasks for gifted students and implementing/ sharing with participants (P2P learning session)

Program Coordinator 

Instructors 

5 – 15 participants

Digital certificate.

Face to Face or Distance Education

You can choose one of the following payment methods EFT and Credit Card.

P.S:***The course fees are to be made to the Halk Bank IBAN number or Account Number above with the following information: Recipient name: Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa Surekli Egitim Merkezi In the Explanation Section: Be sure to write your Name-Surname and Course Name. You should send the Payment Receipt to sem@iuc.edu.tr.