Pat Schuler

Weinfeld Education Group, LLC Presents…

Diamonds in the Rough
Smart Kids Who Learn Differently

March 11- 13, 2010
University of Maryland
Shady Grove
9630 Gudelsky Drive
Rockville, MD 20850

Biography:

Pat Schuler, a National Certified Counselor, co-founded Creative Insights, a counseling and educational consulting practice in Castleton-on-Hudson, New York. She specializes in working with high ability children, especially those who are Twice Exceptional. She has masters' degrees in gifted education (College of New Rochelle) and counseling psychology as well as a doctorate in Educational Psychology (Gifted and Talented Education) from The University of Connecticut. Her experiences in education include: regular classroom teacher, Examination Services Specialist for the New York State Department of Education, coordinator and teacher of elementary through high school school-wide enrichment programs, and research associate at The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. She is the author of the NRC/GT's monograph, Voices of Perfectionism: Perfectionistic Gifted Adolescents in a Rural Middle School; the chapter, Perfectionism in Gifted Children and Adolescents in The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What Do We Know? and is co-author of the chapter Gifted and Talented Students on the Autism Spectrum: Best Practices for Fostering Talent and Accommodating Concerns in the soon to be published book A Kaleidoscope of Special Populations in Gifted Education: Understanding Our Most Able Students from Diverse Backgrounds.

Pat has presented both nationally and internationally on issues related to gifted education, especially underachieving gifted students, twice exceptional children, differentiation in the classroom, perfectionism, and the social and emotional issues of gifted students.