Reading for study is not the same activity as reading for pleasure, a fact that many students take a long, painful time to learn. In college, you are asked to read a great deal in a short time and to remember in detail what you have read. This is a new experience for most students coming to college. Click on the above link to learn more about studying effectively. This advice comes from the University of Puget Sound.
Being a teenager is not easy. Being a gifted teenager can be almost impossible. Planning and hard work on everyone’s part allow gifted students to build a great high school experience. Interesting? Click on the link below to learn more:
Gifted High School Students' Survival Skills
Stress is the body's general response to any intense physical, emotional, or mental demand placed on it by oneself or others. While racing to meet a deadline, dealing with a difficult person, or earning a poor grade are all stressful, so are the excitement of playing a lively game of tennis, falling in love, and being selected to join a special program for gifted students. More? Click on the following website:http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content/stress_management.html
There are more than 3,000 colleges and universities in the United States. Choosing among them is a complex task. Recruiting procedures and a wide variety of publications such as college viewbooks offer idyllic scenes of campus life, but do little to clarify student decision making. The increasing number and variety of books on how to get accepted by the college of your choice adds to the anxiety and expectations. Unless the match between institutions and students is truly a good one, both are likely to be disappointed.
Gifted and talented (GT) students often have problems beyond those of most other students who consider college and career choices. A systematic, collaborative approach is needed whereby students learn that college planning is part of life career development; it need not be a finite event that begins and ends mysteriously or arbitrarily.
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