Educational Consulting for Parent Groups
Parents are often overwhelmed by the demands and multi-faceted needs of their gifted children. Dr. Patty’s sensitive and reassuring presentation style, coupled with her vast and intimate knowledge of the inner workings of gifted children and families, creates an experience that changes the lives of participants. She responds to parents spoken and unspoken concerns with thorough and concise information, suggestions, practical tools, and strategies to enhance parental effectiveness and family harmony.
Dr. Patty adjusts her presentations to address varying stages of development, and specific traits, needs and concerns across the range of giftedness–moderate, highly and profoundly gifted-and twice-exceptional children.
Additionally, virtual presentations and teleconferencing services provide an accessible format for Dr, Patty to deliver pertinent information, parental guidance, and respond to parents’ questions and concerns.
Assemblies for Gifted Students
(Grades 3-12; College Honors Programs)
Dr. Patty’s thoughtful and caring interactive style, coupled with her intimate understanding of the holistic inner workings of gifted children and adolescents, makes her an outstanding speaker with gifted students of diverse ethnicity, race and socio-economic class. Her empathic, perceptive and enthusiastic personality facilitates children’s comfort as they explore their giftedness from the inside out. Dr. Patty helps students reflect on their individuality and daily life experiences to understand and embrace how they are similar and different from chronological peers. Together they dialogue about their intensities, sensitivities, and academic, emotional and social challenges and difficulties.
Presentations address the concerns and needs of varying maturity levels of participants. Students cry, laugh, clap and shriek as they listen to her tell “their” personal story with humor, insight and wisdom.
Dr. Patty offers this service both in-person and through online connection with gifted youth across the nation. Teleconferencing allows her to interact spontaneously, guiding students to a more hopeful perspective, empowering new choices, and delivering reassurance and encouragement.
Professional Development for Teachers, K-12
Dr. Patty, during in-service teacher training, provides information to end confusion and misperceptions of gifted students and aid teachers to more fully understand their intellectual, emotional, social and behavioral dynamics shown in the classroom. Incorporating decades of experience working with gifted and twice-exceptional children and adolescents, she assists teachers to integrate what it means to be gifted from the inside out so they can develop meaningful, cooperative relationships with these unique students. Teachers discover essential perspectives, words and behaviors to motivate and encourage productivity, and acquire tools and strategies to enhance gifted children’s academic and personal growth. Dr. Patty’s witty, sensitive and enthusiastic presentation style entertains and supports teachers, as they develop greater confidence in their ability to be a “gifted teacher” and not just a teacher of the gifted.
Virtual presentations and teleconferencing dialogues are available for educators to ensure the continuation of enrichment services to gifted students, whether engaged in classroom instruction or remote learning.
Educational Consulting for Administrators
Dr. Patty will focus on your district’s questions and concerns, while adding pertinent information on educational services and teacher personas and behaviors that enhance gifted students’ engagement and productivity. Drawing upon experience as an administrator in a school for the gifted, and decades as a consultant in gifted education, administrators will attain a newfound depth and breadth of understanding how gifted children are similar, different and unique from chronological peers, including students of diverse ethnicity, race and socio-economic class. Recognizing temperament traits and behaviors across the range of giftedness—moderate, highly and profoundly gifted—will enable you to provide academic enrichment to all gifted students. Focus is given to distinctive multifaceted academic and personal needs, coupled with practical tools and strategies to create an educational environment that keeps gifted students motivated, challenged, and thriving.
Virtual presentations and teleconsulting services are available to administrators to continue the engagement and motivation of gifted students in both classroom and remote instruction.
Corporate Consulting
Dr. Patty incorporates decades of consulting experience to help management and executives build a focused, engaging and stimulating environment where all employees excel. It is her belief that company success stories are built on a foundation of constructive, straight-forward communication and respect between personnel, management and corporate leaders. Achievement of company objectives and goals is the result of ongoing positive connections, collective focus on excellence, diligent efforts and engagement of all personnel. Every employee, on all levels of an organization, deserve recognition and appreciation for their contribution to the development and prosperity of the company’s products, delivery and growth. When all individuals are respected and valued, an upbeat creative work environment ensues, team solidarity grows, and organizations prosper.
As a consultant, Dr. Patty interacts confidentially with members from all levels of employment to discern what is functioning well among personnel, and what is not. She recognizes and gives voice to loopholes that interrupt team solidarity and commitment to improvement, and provides relationship skill development to restore collaboration and cooperation. Virtual teleconsulting is available and equally effective, allowing Dr. Patty to provide services nationally.
CLIENTELE FEEDBACK
“Fabulous! In one meeting, you affirmed and guided me as a parent! I more thoroughly understand the complexity of my gifted kids. Their behaviors both at home and school now make sense. Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom!”
“In honesty, it is rare I am impressed, but you thoroughly answered all my questions and filled in pieces of information I did not know were missing. Wow! Thank you for sharing your expertise and practical advice to help me be a more effective parent.”
“I am an educator and parent of gifted children. You validated me and gave me tools and strategies to relate more fully to my own kids and students. I now get what is different about gifted children, and us gifted adults too! The societal stigma of being gifted is gone—I can say I am a proud parent and teacher of extraordinary gifted children.”
“Can I package you up and take you home with me? The magic you did with me I want for the whole family! Do you make house calls?!”