ABSTRACT
As gifted learners move from elementary to middle school and secondary school, traditional gifted pull-out program opportunities typically diminish. This chapter discusses how an enrichment seminar course offered at the middle/secondary level can be used to meet the social and emotional needs of gifted learners. Adolescence is a time when identity development and relationship building are critical. Gifted persons may also exhibit certain social and emotional characteristics such as perfectionism, lack of self-confidence, difficulty forming relationships, disorganization, isolation, and narcissism. An enrichment seminar is a course that is typically offered as an honors elective credit and is facilitated by a teacher who holds a gifted endorsement, if not a degree in gifted education. Another unique aspect of the enrichment seminar is that it teaches gifted learners coping strategies to help address the social-emotional issues with which they may be dealing.
