This article explores the concept of resilience as it relates to gifted children, particularly gifted black children, and identifies barriers to resilience. Recommendations for fostering resilience in these students are offered, including improve family-school-community relations, enhance self-concept, and improve social and emotional relations.…

A fourth grade teacher examines the ever-changing and developing student teacher relationship. As students move on each year, past teachers still feel some degree of responsibility, and students learn about changing relationships. (SM)

Notes that, for college students, first year is sometimes a hard transition for young adults to make. Suggests, therefore, that college admission officers' duty should not end when student returns his or her acceptance and deposit. Encourages officers to keep tabs on first-year students and help to make transition more successful with year-round…

A collection of essays by students at the University of Michigan's Pilot Program, an innovative, 600-student, academic/residential undergraduate unit, written specifically for other college students, is presented. The essays give personal glimpses of college life to college students to help them learn from each other what discoveries and…

This paper highlights the use of analogies and metaphors in counseling sessions with a focus on the college freshman experience as a living, contemporary example of how clients may experience mythic themes in their lives. Drawing from the ideas of Joseph Campbell, characters found in classical Greek mythology, as well as contemporary myths as…

The need to recognize the social and emotional needs of children who are gifted is briefly addressed. It is noted that some gifted children have problems at school due to a lack of respect for and understanding of the ways they differ psychologically from others their age. (SW)

Describes a model for the delivery of programs and services for recruiting, retaining, and graduating African-American students. Notes that piecemeal programs neither increase the enrollment of African-American students nor slow their rate of attrition. (DM)

Discusses how the author uses her nightmares to get ideas for her writing. Describes "Speak," one particular young adult novel inspired by a nightmare that she guesses was provoked by memories of her older sister coming of age. Discusses the exploration and impact of cliques or clans among adolescents. (SC)

The degree of difficulty in students making the transition to a four-year institution after graduating from a two-year college is illustrated by two vignettes, one demonstrating a moderately difficult transition and the other showing an easy transition. Discusses in the conclusion the importance of establishing a niche at the transfer institution…

This is the first of two articles that provide a critique of categorisation and of the biomedical interpretation of personal adjustment issues experienced by children and youth. In this paper the appraisal is made by the devising of an imaginary mental illness, through the presentation of some important theoretical frameworks, by considering…

Problems that international students deal with as they adjust to living in the United States are presented, and their implications for mutual cooperation once students return to their homelands are discussed. Some practical steps that might be taken to relieve many of the problems described are suggested. (BW)

Presents (1) information to help teachers evaluate how well the physically handicapped child and his/her family have adjusted to the child's disability and (2) guidelines for handling associated practical issues that arise in the classroom. (Author/RH)

Since 1972, National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rules have allowed freshmen to play varsity football and basketball. College athletics has changed dramatically in intervening years, and the pressures of competition create a situation in which it is difficult for freshman athletes to develop a well-balanced academic, social, and…

Compares the themes of academic and social integration in Tinto's model of college student attrition with the themes of "vision" and "sense of community" as described in a recent ethnographic study. It is argued that vision and sense of community are more useful theoretical considerations in helping address college student…

Integration is a process which works in two directions. It requires immigrant students to adapt and adhere to common values ... but it also requires an openness to diversity in the social and scholastic milieu of the host society. As a host language teacher and researcher, the author has long struggled with the definition of…