One of the best ways to encourage gifted students to embrace their identities as academically talented scholars is to provide them with peer-to-peer contact within a community of like-minded individuals. Not only does this allow accelerated learning to take place at a pace that challenges and motivates gifted students, it can also have some suprising social and emotional benefits as explained in this video by Andrew Samwick (TIP ’82, ’83, ’84), one of TIP’s 2016 Distinguished Alumni.
Andrew Samwick is the Sandra L. and Arthur L. Irving Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, the Director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is most widely known for his research on the economics of retirement. In 2009, Samwick was selected as the New Hampshire Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, recognizing his work to educate, train, and inspire the next generation of public policy leaders. In 2003, he served for a year as the chief economist on the staff of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He currently serves as a member of the Census Scientific Advisory Committee.
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