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As a classroom teacher, you play an active role in your students' social and emotional development. This excellent guide offers useful advice and suggestions for classroom teachers seeking to support the emotional growth of the gifted children in their classroom. Elements associated with social and emotional education include a wide range of personal attributes, including value systems, attitudes, interests, feelings and emotions, interpersonal relationships, and character and leadership. With so many factors linked to social and emotional education, the affective domain should be given a priority in school curricula. However, prior to crises or overt threats, schools have traditionally paid little attention to the social and emotional needs of the student body. Stephanie A. Nugent explains the necessity of social and emotional education in nurturing the development of gifted students and offers strategies for the classroom that work for both groups and individuals. This is one of the books in Prufrock Press' popular Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education. This series offers a unique collection of tightly focused books that provide a concise, practical introduction to important topics concerning the education of gifted children. The guides offer a perfect beginner's introduction to key information about gifted and talented education. Educational Resource

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Stephanie K. Ferguson is an assistant professor of secondary education at the University of Arizona South. She has authored and coauthored several journal articles and presented at state, regional, national, and international conferences on various topics related to gifted education. With more than 10 years of experience teaching in junior high and high school classrooms, her research interests include moral development, integrating the affective domain in secondary curricula, effective technology integration strategies, and developing teacher leaders. Dr. Nugent earned her Ph.D. in curriculum, instruction, and special education with an emphasis in gifted studies at The University of Southern Mississippi. Frances A. Karnes is professor of curriculum, instruction, and special education at The University of Southern Mississippi. She is widely known for her teaching, research, publications, innovative program developments, and service activities in gifted education and leadership training.

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