Articles and other information items related to gifted children
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Resources for Parents
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Written by Rosie Williams
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
Home schooling is a form of education that occurs in an out of school setting. Home schooling is an educational option that has as many approaches and variants as there are home school families. It is based on the belief that you (parents) understand best what and how your children should learn. Therefore, obviously, home schooling is ideographic in character and is not a phenomenon that fits neatly into a single definition or example.
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Written by Lesley Sword
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
AS A CLINICAL psychologist working with gifted people of all ages, I know that most bright people don't like the word "gifted"; probably because it has connotations of high achievement and they simply don't relate to it. I have come to regard the term "gifted" as a clinical label which, like all labels, is associated with a conceptual framework or model that can obscure the individual to whom it is applied.
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Resources for Teachers
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Written by Karen Rogers
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
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Professor Karen Rogers provides a updated (1999) synthesis of the research regarding gifted education provisions. Dr Karen B. Rogers is Professor at the School of Education at the University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis. This research has been published with her permission and follows her 1991 seminal "A best-evidence synthesis of research on accelerative options for gifted students".
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Resources for Parents
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Written by Mimi Wellisch
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
Over the years there has been considerable debate about what constitutes ‘school readiness’, and, as in the case in most debates, there are a number of answers. This five page paper by Mimi Wellisch will attempt to synthesise current research as well as address the issue of when parents should consider early entry for potentially gifted preschoolers.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 13 August 2008 )
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Resources for Teachers
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Written by Cindy Strickland
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
This 25 page unit, alternately titled "Living and Learning with Dabrowski's Overexcitabilities", was written by Cindy Strickland for use in a pull-out setting for gifted students at the middle school level, although most of the activities would also be appropriate for high school students and even some upper elementary students. The unit is designed to take about 3 weeks, meeting approximately one 50-minute period per day. Teachers may pick and choose activities to make the unit longer or shorter.
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Written by Fiona Smith
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
This five page article by Fiona Smith discusses the advantages of using the Stanford-Binet Version 5 Assessment Test when assessing gifted children or adults. Smith, a psychologist with considerable psychometric testing experience with gifted children, discusses the particular challenges this form of testing takes, and the construction of and advantages offered by the SB5 test.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 13 August 2008 )
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Written by Brenda Rinard
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
This 5 page article by Brenda Rinard explores the question of why non-fiction writing is sometimes so difficult for gifted children. Rinard covers the variety of factors that may be in play, and the need for gifted children to see the larger purposes of writing.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 13 August 2008 )
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Written by Angela Micallef
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
This four page article by Angela Micallef explores perfectionism in regard to gfited children. Perfectionism can be an asset to one’s development or debilitating to one’s growth. Working out whether children are perfectionists or not, and if so what type, can make an enormous difference in the way these children are perceived and reacted to at home or in the classroom. Silverman believes that being a perfectionist comes with being gifted.
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Written by Peter Merrotsy
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
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This 22 page article by Peter Merrotsy provides an appraisal, first published in 2003 in the Australian Journal of Gifted Education (12 (2), pp18-27), of the NSW Department of Education’s current policies and practices in the education of gifted students, and the programmes and provisions available for gifted students attending NSW public schools.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 13 August 2008 )
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Resources for Parents
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Written by Cate Turner Clark
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Saturday, 09 August 2008 |
This article by Cate Clark explains how parents can assist gifted visual spatial learners to improve their spelling. It is framed within the context of assisting a Year 5 boy to significantly improve his spelling with a program supplied by Helen Dudeney.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 09 August 2008 )
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