Brilliant
Behaviors
A survey of behaviors that
may indicate your child is gifted.
Desperately
Seeking Research
On Homeschooling the Gifted,
by Joyce Michel. Why no research on homeschooling the gifted?
Education
Program for Gifted Youth [EPGY]
Stanford's Continuing Studies
Program offers computer-based courses to students of high ability.
Gifted
But Learning Disabled: A Puzzling Paradox
"Children who are both gifted
and learning disabled exhibit remarkable talents or strengths in some areas
and disabling weaknesses in others." By Susan Baum
Gifted
Children Being Home Educated
Email [email protected]
for a free email newsletter about home teaching gifted children.
Gifted
Children: Homeschooling
An annotated bibliography
and resource list representing much of the written record in this century
about gifted children and homeschooling. Compiled by Kathi Kearney, Instructor,
Talented & Gifted Education, Iowa State University.
Gifted
Education Press
Offers books for teaching
and parenting the gifted. Books are available in sets with a 25% discount,
but also sold separately.
Gifted
Education Press Quarterly
GEPQ is a lively publication
that includes interesting essays on differentiated curriculum and great
writers/thinkers of world literature, history, politics and philosophy.
Gifted
Reasoning and Advanced Intelligence
"How do gifted children think
or reason differently?" By Penny Van Deur.
Gifted
Resources Distance Learning Page
Special resources for gifted
and talented education.
Glossary
of Gifted Education
Giftedness and education
from the perspective of sociologic social psychology, by Steven M. Nordby.
Hoagies'
Gifted Education Page
The gifted child. No one
individual can be more exhilarating, or more frustrating.
Homeschooling
Gifted Students
This introductory guide for
parents, by Jacque Ensign, tackles the challenges and opportunities parents
face in deciding to homeschool.
Is
My Child Gifted?
How do I know if my child
is gifted? Check their "Comparison of Bright and Gifted" chart.
Nurturing
Giftedness in Young Children
Young gifted children frequently
show peaks of extraordinary performance rather than equally high skill
levels in all cognitive areas. ERIC Digest #E487. Roedell, Wendy C.
Open
Space Communications
A Colorado-based company
serving those who live and work with gifted children.
Process
Skills
Bloom's Taxonomy is a model
frequently used as a guide when designing themes, units, lessons and assignments
that promote higher level thinking.
Staying
Home From School
An article that includes
several personal accounts of homeschooling gifted children.
Suggestions
To Turn On Bright Children At Home
Bright children are always
in search of new and exciting activities. Queensland Association for Gifted
& Talented Children offers this list of activities to enjoy with your
child.
TAG
Family Network
An organization dedicated
to appropriate education for talented and gifted youth, and advocacy. Run
by and for parents, this group disseminates information, supports parents,
and monitors and influences legal issues.
Westbridge
Academy
The Westbridge Academy staff
believes that giftedness needs to be nurtured and that the education of
gifted youth must be challenging, reasonable, goal-oriented, and positive.