The Center for Gifted Education offers a variety of courses in diverse areas such as:

• Strategies for Challenging Bright Students
• Teaching the Underachiever
• Emotional Needs of the Gifted
• Learning to Think, Thinking to Learn
• Diversity: Focus on the Bright Side, a distance-learning course

In addition to offering many courses, both on and off campus, the founder of the Center for Gifted Education, Margo Long, provides a variety of consulting services.

Margo Long, Director of the Center for Gifted Education & Professional Development
Margo Long, founder and director of the Center for Gifted Education & Professional Development, is an Associate Professor of Education and supervisor of secondary-level education students for the School of Education at Whitworth University. She specializes in teaching creative problem solving, communication, learning styles and issues of gifted education. As a consultant in the Pacific Northwest, Margo actively serves the teaching and health professions, as well as the business sector. Her provocative and enthusiastic presentation style is challenging as well as practical for participants. Some of Margo's recent classes and presentations include emotional intelligence, strategies for teaching bright children in the regular classroom, dealing productively with changes and choices, time/stress management, coping with the future. Contact Margo via email at mlong@whitworth.edu, or at the Center at (509) 777-3226 or gifted@whitworth.edu.