Center for Talented Youth Wellness Webinar: Why Novelty Is Essential to Keeping Advanced Learners Engaged

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Join the Center for Talented Youth (CTY) for the next webinar of the center's series focused on well-being and youth development.

How do you keep your child from being bored this summer? Novelty! Recent research from CTY shows that new academic content and novel learning approaches and delivery are essential to engaging and challenging bright students through out-of-school learning opportunities.

As you plan for your child's summer, join CTY's Amy Shelton to learn about her research about why novelty is so essential to challenging and engaging advanced learners. Learn what you should consider to ensure that you are providing positive learning experiences outside of school that will help them thrive.

Amy Shelton is executive director of CTY and leads the center in advancing its vision. A professor and former associate dean for research in the Johns Hopkins School of Education, her research background is in cognitive psychology and neuroscience and focuses on spatial skills, individual differences, and mechanisms of learning. She has a Master of Arts and PhD in cognitive psychology from Vanderbilt University and is the parent of a CTY student.

See Shelton's research about novelty and advanced learners appeared in Gifted Child Quarterly.

This event will be recorded and posted on CTY's YouTube channel a few days after the event: https://www.youtube.com/user/CTYJohnsHopkins/videos