ANNEMARIE ROEPER (1918-2012)

November 29, 2010

TESTIMONIALS FOR ANNEMARIE ROEPER, ED.D.'S CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Annemarie's series of four children's books, written in 1963, are now back in print!  To order hardcover, softcover or e-book editions, go to Lulu.com.  To order books in time for holiday giving, please order by December 10th.  Here's what people are saying about these titles:



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November 19, 2010

NOW AVAILABLE : CHILDREN'S BOOK SERIES by Annemarie Roeper, Ed.D.


We are pleased to announce the re-issue of Annemarie Roeper's children's book series, originally published in 1963.  Books can be viewed and ordered by going to  Lulu.com.  By clicking on the "Preview" button underneath the cover photo, you can see sample text and illustrations.  We hope you enjoy them!

(Please order by December 10th for holiday delivery)



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October 17, 2010

MORE TESTIMONIALS . . .


Annemarie Roeper and Linda Silverman

Annemarie Roeper continues to be an inspiration to the field of gifted education and psychology.  Her innovative approach focuses on the inner world of the child--who the child is--instead of what he or she can do.  The Annemarie Roeper Method of Qualitative Assessment is a profound contribution to the assessment of gifted children. 

With her many years of experience, she is able to draw out a child's gifts through one hour of unstructured interaction and accurately determine the range of the child's abilities. She has laid the foundation for many schools for the gifted, including the Roeper School, the Logan School for Creative Learners and the Rocky Mountain School.  She can help schools create a supportive community, while retaining their individual missions and vision. 

Her parent support groups and parent consultations have helped hundreds of families to gain greater appreciation of each other and harmony. Her numerous books, articles, chapters and presentations are enlightening. Each year her wisdom deepens.  Amazingly, she now enters the electronic age with a blogspot!  What a gift to the world!

Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist, Director of the Gifted Development Center 
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April 19, 2010

NEW CONSULTATION FEE SCHEDULE & UPCOMING PARENT MEETING

Dear Friends:

RE:
NEW CONSULTATION FEE SCHEDULE

I have heard that some people actually retire, but for me not to be challenged by work and people is depressing, so I am happy to announce my new web page and that I am back in business.

I am excited about being able to continue my work, which was interrupted due to an illness.  I was a little concerned about re-opening my consultation service, but it all turned out well.  I have had several new inquiries already and I have worked with several children that I was able to connect with in the same way I have in the past, which made me very happy.

If you would like to schedule a consultation, you can email me at amroeper@aol.com:

For those who are interested, my new fee schedule will be:

Phone & Internet Consultations /
$150 per half hour

On-site Consultations /
$900 (for 3 required sessions)

If you have not yet become a Follower on my new web page, I would encourage you to sign up today so that you can receive regular updates of meetings, events and blog posts.  You can access it at:

http://roeperconsultationservice.blogspot.com

Please also note that I will be holding a Parent Meeting on May 17, 2010 at 7 p.m. titled THOUGHTS ABOUT SUMMER FOR THE GIFTED CHILD.  All interested parents are welcome to attend.  Details are listed below.

Looking forward to hearing from you
and seeing you soon,

Annemarie Roeper, Ed.D.



UPCOMING PARENT MEETING!



April 20, 2010

Dear Parents:

Summer can be a very special opportunity for the gifted to follow their own dream, yet we often impose a structure on them even for the summer. Let this be an evening where we discuss the unusual opportunity to listen to your child and create programs that fulfill their own needs and desires. Get ideas from your children and bring those ideas to the evening!

THOUGHTS ABOUT SUMMER
FOR THE GIFTED CHILD

Monday, May 17th
7 p.m.
Sunrise
11889 Skyline Boulevard
(Activities Room, Second Floor)
Oakland  . CA .  94619

RSVP
amroeper@aol.com

The fee is $20 per person made out to Roeper Consultation Service.  Space is limited, so please let us know if you will be able to attend.

Sincerely,

Annemarie Roeper

View my New Web Page at:
http://roeperconsultationservice.blogspot.com

Annemarie Roeper, Ed.D. is an educational consultant with more than 60 years experience, specializing in the needs of gifted and creative children.  In 1941, she and her husband, George, founded the Roeper School in Michigan, one of the nation’s oldest and best-known private schools for gifted children.  In 2007, Annemarie was chosen as the first to be videotaped in the NAGC’s ‘Portraits in Gifted Education:  The Legacy Series’.  She has recently re-opened her consultation service to work with parent groups as well as with individual gifted children and adults by phone, internet and private meetings.

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April 10, 2010

MY DEAR FRIENDS:

ANNOUNCING
ANNEMARIE ROEPER'S
NEW WEB PAGE

(http://roeperconsultationservice.blogspot.com)

My Dear Friends:

I am pleased to announce the creation of my new web page, which coincides with the re-opening of my consulting practice to include gifted adults as well as gifted children ages 7 and up.  Please bookmark or add this address to your current favorites.

I will be adding articles and writings to the site periodically.  If you would like to link or be linked to me and/or provide a one-paragraph testimonial to be included on the site, I would be very happy.

I have also included some photos in a slideshow on the right column of the site.  Professional and personal links as they arrive will be listed also.   If you would like a photo, link or testimonial added or removed, please contact:

Karen Mireau
biographia2008@gmail.com

If you would forward this letter and the link to the new web page to your own mailing lists, that would also be very helpful.

Thank you for your support!

Much love,

Annemarie
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SIGNS OF GIFTEDNESS

Some signs of giftedness in children and adults compiled by Annemarie Roeper, Ed.D. and Betty Maxwell, Ph.D.

Sensitivity

Remembering insults forever

Doing three things at once

Doing the outwardly foolish thing, taking up lost causes

Psychic

Interest in life and death

Driven to comprehend, complexity of understanding

Wanting to know the reasons and origins of things

Asks, “What is my purpose?”

Naive

Recognition of falsity, no “trophy friends”

Complexifying solutions

Finding non-conventional solutions, originality

Not motivated by extrinsic awards, discomfort with praise

Passionate

Undeterred by conventional expectations

Self taught, non-sequential learning

Need for precision

Recognition of unfairness, strong sense of justice

Making intuitive leaps, making logical projections

Noticing what no one else does

Manipulation and bargaining

Make and follow their own plans, less teachable

Devise practical experiments to see “What if?”

Saying, “Actually”

Large vocabulary, love of big words

Delayed in toilet training, difficulty in separating from mom

Early sense of responsibility

Not wanting to grow up and face the world

Less physical risk-taking

Zipping through Piagetian stages

Friends of both genders, later sexual interests

Abstract thinkers before having the emotional ability to handle it

Symbolic thinkers

Can animate their fears, powerful emotional imagination


TESTIMONIALS

Please send your good wishes for Annemarie c/o Karen Mireau at biographia2008@gmail.com and we will post them here.

Recent Congratulations:

Your work has been such an inspiration for looking at the world through the eyes of gifted children and validating their inner world and honoring the soul in all children. I think of the school you created as an ideal environment for keeping a child's spirit alive - in a world that wants to solve the problem of the "spirited child." I believe that your unique approach to children and education is the solution to what ails the education system and medicine for the future. - Dr. Lara Honos-Webb

This is not a re-launching of your career but the mere launching of a new website! Your career is and has always been a seamless continuation of a lifetime of experiences from which you extract a pure, translucent insight. You then use your skillfulness to apply this insight to your work with others. Your approach to understanding and working with gifted individuals of all ages is non-dualistic, holistic, nurturing, kind and intuitive. For this reason, people of all ages are instinctively drawn to you seeking to grow under your tutelage. I send you wishes for continued success. - Cindi Lardner

I LOVE YOUR WEBSITE!!!! It makes me so happy to see you in pictures, and to read your wonderful words, and view this tribute to your 60 years of accomplishments. I LOVE IT! It feels like new life....just like the springtime! You are re-budding!!!! AMEN! - Patty Gatto-Walden


I LOVE your blog! First, the photo of you captures your true essence: kindness that is obvious in that knowing smile that I have come to love. I had a chance to watch some of the videos that are linked to your site. Fabulous! - Jim DeLisle


HOORAY! The new website give a fresh look and re-launches Annemarie's consulting practice. It is a compilation of many aspects of your life, Annemarie, and it is a great look to the past as well as to the future. - Michele Kane


Onederful!!!! You didn't mention this when I visited....what a great way to continue your work and share it with so many more.... - Susan Ryan


Ellen D. Fiedler, Ph.D. writes:

AGELESS

“Ageless” is the word that I’ve always used to describe my dear friend and treasured colleague, Annemarie Roeper. Her vitality of mind and spirit transcends all chronological boundaries, and issues of age simply vaporize in the clear, bright light of times shared with her.

“Ageless” is a word that also describes Annemarie’s perspectives on “life, the universe, and everything.” The wisdom she brings to every conversation I’ve ever had with her, as well as to her writings, presentations, and consultations, defy the boundaries of time and space. The pioneering work that she (with her beloved husband, George) did in creating and heading Roeper School and in developing “The Roeper Philosophy” has stood the test of time in honoring the Self of the child and broadening our perspectives on giftedness far beyond the narrow thinking of those who focus solely on the academic achievements and scholastic accomplishments of the gifted.

Most recently, one of the many manifestations of Annemarie’s ageless wisdom has been related to her Qualitative Assessment method for understanding the giftedness of children. She realized long ago that there was much more to identifying giftedness than was being revealed through traditional methods (test scores, teacher observations, performance tasks, etc.) and that she had been going well beyond those methods for years, dating well back to the days when she was at Roeper School full time. Her Qualitative Assessment (QA) method involves entering the world of the child and discovering much more about emotional and spiritual aspects of that individual, in addition to the child’s cognitive functioning, than could ever be revealed otherwise. So, Annemarie enlisted the aid of many of us who were close to her and very familiar with her work (Linda Silverman, Betty Meckstroth, Patty Gatto-Walden, Michele Kane, and others, including me) to establish an “apprenticeship” program that currently is well along in developing a cadre of skilled QA practitioners.

Spending time with Annemarie is, in itself, a timeless experience. Whether it was our conversations at the breakfast table, walking along one beach or another, riding together in a car, or sharing a meal, I invariably have found our discussions lively and intriguing and very influential in relationship to my work with teachers, schools, and school districts who are concerned with gifted children. (In fact, I often said that Annemarie and I should keep a tape-recorder going as we explored all those many complex and significant topics.) In an ongoing interplay between the past and the present, Annemarie draws on the experiences of a lifetime lived deeply and intensely while simultaneously being fully present in the here and now as her thoughts and feelings are dynamically shaped and reshaped in meaningful conversation with others.

Those of us who have known Annemarie well continue to be enriched by our connection with her. However, others who know her only through her prolific writings and speeches have continued to benefit by her timeless and ageless wisdom, benefits that have permanently changed the course of the field of gifted education for the better.

Ellen D. Fiedler, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL. Educational Consultant: Wings for Education LLC, New Buffalo, MI.

ellenfiedler@comcast.net

269.469.6225


BOOKS & ESSAYS

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Books & Publications

By Annemarie Roeper, Ed.D

The “I” of the Beholder

$20.00

Educating Children For Life

$20.00

My Life Experiences

with Children

$20.00

Living with Intensity

$30.00

(Compilation of articles

on giftedness with

2 articles by

Annemarie Roeper)


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