A Love for Learning

Motivation and the Gifted Child

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Author(s): Carol Strip Whitney, Ph.D., Gretchen Hirsch

Four-Time Award-Winner! Spark the motivation in your gifted children or students! Keep them eager and excited to learn at home and in the classroom! Gifted children are susceptible to many de-motivating factors, which can lead to depression and academic underachievement. The authors present concepts and techniques to counteract those factors, allowing children’s motivation to skyrocket.

This book features the Four C’s of Motivation:

Creating Challenge
Creating Control
Creating Commitment
Creating Compassion

The book includes additional resources, books, and websites for parents and teachers, as well as a foreword by Dr. Joanne Rand Whitmore Schwartz, former Dean of the College of Education, Kent State University, and author of the classic book Giftedness, Conflict and Underachievement.

Length: 262 pages
ISBN 10 digit: 0-910707-80-4
ISBN 13 digit: 978-0-910707-80-0
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