Meet at the WCS Administrative Building at 1320 West Main Street in Franklin in the School Board Auditorium on the first floor, (look for WillCoGS signs).
Please join us for this presentation by Dr. Megan Parker Peters and Dr. Emily Mofield.
Do I Have to Be Perfect? Helping Your Child Manage Pressure and Perfectionism
Does your child get upset if he gets less than an A? Is your child overly self-critical, even though she has a long list of accomplishments? Learn about the thoughts and behaviors of perfectionism as it relates to gifted children. During this session, Dr. Emily Mofield and Dr. Megan Parker Peters will share their research around perfectionism along with several ideas parents can use to help children strive for a standard of excellence, not perfection.
Emily Mofield, Ed.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Lipscomb University College of Education teaching classes for the Doctor of Education Program and Gifted Education graduate studies. Her background includes 15 years of experience teaching gifted students and leading gifted services in Sumner County, Tenn. She is a National Board Certified Teacher in English Language Arts and has been recognized as Teacher of the Year for Tennessee Association for Gifted Children. She is the co-author of several nationally recognized award-winning curricula for gifted and advanced learners and has received the National Association for Gifted Children’s Hollingworth Award for excellence in research in gifted education (with Megan Parker Peters). Mofield regularly presents her research and strategies for differentiation for school districts, state, national, and international conferences, and special groups.
Mofield’s work primarily focuses on developing appropriate curriculum for gifted and advanced learners. Her areas of research include perfectionism, implicit theories of intelligence (mindsets), and social-emotional learning, publishing in Gifted Child Quarterly, Journal of Education for the Gifted, Roeper Review, and other notable academic journals. She is passionate about translating this research into practice and has recently co-developed a Social-Emotional Learning Curriculum: Teaching Tenacity, Resilience, and a Drive for Excellence: Lessons for Social-Emotional Learning.
Megan Parker Peters is an associate professor and the Director of Teacher Assessment at Lipscomb University. She is a licensed psychologist and school psychologist who focuses on the needs of intellectually gifted and twice-exceptional children.
Parker Peters was the 2016 co-recipient of the NAGC Hollingworth Award. She was awarded the 2017 Jo Patterson Award for distinguished service to gifted students in Tennessee. Her current research interests include examining the impact of perfectionism on coping, the relationships among socioemotional factors and giftedness, and the academic and external factors that predict student success. In 2018, she co-authored Teaching Tenacity, Resilience, and a Drive for Excellence.
Megan Parker Peters and Emily Mofield recently won the 2019 TAGT Legacy award for their book Teaching Tenacity, Resilience, and a Drive for Excellence.