Smart Girls & Smart Boys by Drs. Robyn McKay & Sanford Cohn - 3/7/12
For smart girls to flourish, they need more than just their intellect. Creativity, emotional intelligence, mentors, and allies each have a unique place in a bright girl’s life. Join creativity researcher and ASU counselor Dr. Robyn McKay for a special conversation about the milestones and danger zones that smart girls encounter. Find out what parents can do to uplift, support, defend, and applaud their gifted and talented daughters.
Smart boys are often ignored, as they are already doing above average work. In the absence of appropriate learning opportunities, these boys find avenues for learning outside of school, most often, they retreat to their computers. Video games and exploring the Internet offer them far more ways to experience novelty and complexity. In this session, Dr. Cohn describes some of the problems gifted boys face in school and how we might improve schooling for them.
Dr. Robyn McKay has a PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Kansas where she studied positive psychology and optimal human development. She is the co-founder ofCLEOS, a creativity and talent development research laboratory at KU. Dr. McKay is the psychologist for the ASU Gary K. Herberger Young Scholars Academy and is on the faculty of ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton College of Education where she teaches Child & Adolescent Development, Creativity Research, and the Social & Emotional Needs of the Gifted. She is the founder of WISE – Women in Science and Engineering at ASU-Polytechnic.
Dr. Cohn is a professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. He has co-authored with Barbara A. Kerr, Smart Boys: Talent, Manhood, and the Search for Meaning, co-edited with William C. George and Julian C. Stanley, Educating the Gifted: Acceleration and Enrichment and written numerous publications that provide understanding of the needs of intellectual youths. Dr. Cohn is a psychologist in Arizona with a clinical practice devoted to highly able youths and their families.
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