The first day (Sunday) of the Twentieth IAGC Convention includes a full day of presentations for parents.  Complete information available at the IAGC web site: iagcgofted.org or the brochure.


9:00-12:00 p.m. Educators and Parents Session

Presented by Susan Daniels, Professor, California State University, San Bernardino, CA
Title: Nurturing Creativity at Home and at School

How can you nurture creativity in yourself and the children you teach? This interactive workshop will demonstrate how to guide and foster creativity and to sustain the creative spirit we are born with. In addition to providing a contemporary theoretical framework for developing creativity, this workshop will include hands-on activities and discussions of: personality traits associated with creativity, processes involved in creativity, ways to parent and teach for creativity, processes that promote creative thinking, and how to perserve and nurture your own creativity. Presentation of an 8-week Professional Development program designed to support creative development for teachers, with applications for the classroom will conclude this workshop.


Lunch Included

1:00-4:00 pm Educators and Parents Session

Presented by Susan Daniels, Professor, California State University, San Bernardino, CA & Michele Kane, Associate Professor, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
Title: Living with Intensity - Strategies and Stories

Overexcitabilities (OEs) - psychomotor, sensual, intellectual, imaginational, and emotional - are central to the personality, intellectual, physical, and social-emotional development of the gifted. Overexcitabilities confer certain advantages for gifted development and at the same time render the gifted vulnerable to being misunderstood, and potentially, misidentified. This interactive workshop will incorporate vignettes of families we've worked with and provide opportunities for participants to share stories and pose questions to deepen their understanding of the strengths, need, and challenges of living with heightened intensity and sensitivity. Embracing OEs positively and developing strategies for modulating and channeling OEs most positively will be the focus of this workshop.