EDN 553: Social-Emotional Development & Support of Gifted Learners

Risk-Benefit Management Support System:

A Working Model

R-BMSS Model: Risk & Resilience Model incorporates need to consider:

Prevention Intervention

Stakeholders: School-based (school culture)

Teachers; Administrators; School Personnel Family (home culture) Self (individual; personal-social-emotional-

experiential) Peers (local socio-cultural influence/s) Community (wider socio-cultural influence/s)

R-BMSS Model

Foundational Factors/Variables Risk: Linked primarily with intervention

How connected with prevention? How related to Rigidity?

Resilience: Linked primarily with prevention How connected with intervention?

Mediating/Moderating Variable/s How to identify? How to accommodate/confront?

R-BMSS Model

Implications for Risk vs Resilience plus Mediating Variables?

Need for identification Assessment/Evaluation

Need for dissemination/education Appropriate strategies for communication &

education of stakeholders

R-BMSS Model

Elaborating the model Building a working “tool” for application in

various settings Assessing the knowledge base with respect

to theory & research evidence linking risk & resilience, esp. for gifted learners & related stakeholders