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3.1.6 Ideas Matter! Fostering Social Entrepreneurship & Philanthropy in Gifted Learners
Social entrepreneurship is a perfect curriculum topic for gifted and talented youth and ideal fodder for global citizenship. It capitalizes on gifted students’ need for meaningful activity, engages their moral standards, and challenges their complex and creative thinking abilities. Participants will learn ways to empower students through social entrepreneurship, which is founded on the recognition that social problems require new thinking and new approaches.
Author(s):
Barbara Swicord
bswicord@giftedstudy.org
NSGT/SIG
United States
Barbara Swicord, Ed.D. is President and CEO of the Summer Institute for the Gifted and the Executive Director of the National Society for the Gifted and Talented. Her 41 years in gifted education have included working as an itinerant teacher for the gifted in Georgia, to Utah where she was a teacher, Teacher Coordinator, and Curriculum Designer for Salt Lake City School's G/T Program, and to New Jersey, where she spent ten years as the G/T Supervisor for the East Orange School District, and finally to Connecticut to work with SIG and NSGT, where she has been since 2000.