2019 WCGTC World Conference

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3.4.14 Solving Underachievement: Eleven Steps to Strengthening Tenacity, Resilience, and Mental Perseverance

Underachievement profoundly affects gifted students, their performance in school, and opportunities in life. Presenters will discuss the importance of helping students develop goal-oriented attitudes and the positive role of productive failure. Participants will learn the role of long-term goals, motivation, enjoyment, self-confidence, and competence in creating a successful student and adult.

Author(s):

Elizabeth Ebers-Truesdale
lebers@lps.org
Lincoln Public Schools
United States

   

A practicing counselor and teacher, Liz Ebers-Truesdale has worked in gifted education for decades, and delights in training teachers as well as teaching gifted populations in Title I schools.

Joan Jacobs
jjacobs@lps.org
Lincoln Public Schools
United States

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With 30 years of experience in gifted education, Dr. Jacobs has worked with students at all age levels across the United States. Her strength as an educator is solving the puzzles that individual students present so that they can become enthusiastic learners.

 



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