Stacey Turis’s debut gives a voice to the genius yet tormented souls suffering from giftedness, ADHD, or a combination of both (a condition known as twice-exceptional) who have yet to speak out. She imparts both comedy and wisdom to help those suffering from ADHD and/or giftedness some hope in knowing they are not alone.
Stacey Turis’s debut gives a voice to the genius yet tormented souls suffering from giftedness, ADHD, or a combination of both (a condition known as twice-exceptional) who have yet to speak out. She imparts both comedy and wisdom to help those suffering from ADHD and/or giftedness some hope in knowing they are not alone.
This article unpacks the trap of making the student who is gifted a perpetual “teacher’s helper.” The author reflects on her own past experience as a gifted student used as an aid and counters that option with more viable alternatives.
High Ability is a blog and information aggregator for parents, guardians and teachers of high ability children managed by the Ohio Association of Gifted Children (OAGC) for the benefit of high ability students in the State of Ohio.
Hoagies’ Gifted Education Page is an all-things-gifted website, filled with resources, articles, books and links to help and support parents, teachers, and gifted learners.
Homefires, run by Diane Flynn Keith, is designed to help parents homeschool their children from preschool through high school. The site offers articles, homeschooling facts, support for families, fresh curriculum ideas, and more.
This article by Educational Therapist Aimee Yermish answers the question of how to talk to your child to get them ready for taking an assessment test. She addresses common issues, including those that can result in falsely reduced scores among gifted children.
The updated edition of Sousa’s bestseller translates the latest neuroscientific findings into practical strategies for engaging gifted and talented learners. Individual chapters are dedicated to talents in language, math, and the arts, and offer instructional applications for both elementary and secondary classrooms.
John Munro provides a wealth of information in this article that can be passed along to teachers or anyone else who would benefit from a deeper understanding of giftedness. He unpacks different types of giftedness, common characteristics of gifted students, tips for teachers and parents, and more.
IDEAL Solutions was developed by the Belin-Blank Center as an efficient and effective way to make sense of above-level test scores. Recommendations are based on more than two decades of experience with administering and interpreting above-level tests to high-ability children.
This guide is a comprehensive library of over 100 programs for gifted students in grades Pre-K to 12. It was created by Institute for Educational Advancement and is drawn from IEA’s Gifted Resource Center to serve as a useful tool for students, parents, counselors, and anyone working with gifted youth.
Lack of access to gifted education is prevalent, yet preventable for Black and Hispanic students. In this article, Brian L. Wright, Donna Y. Ford, and Jemimah L. Young share data on under-representation in the U.S., along with contributing factors and recommendations.
Programs at the Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (IMACS) are designed to expand your child’s mind through the development of critical thinking, logic and reasoning skills. IMACS offers after-school, weekend, summer, homeschool, and online courses
Imagine Magazine, a resource for gifted and talented middle and upper school students, is published by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth. Imagine is designed to provide bright teens with the information and inspiration they need to make the most of their precollege years and beyond.
Written for gifted students in grades 7-12, Imagine features career profiles, student-written articles about competitions and summer programs, advice for college planning, brain teasers, college reviews, student creative work, and more!
This blog by the mother of a gifted child focuses on the importance of advocacy for gifted learners and the ins and outs of gifted homeschooling as she finds what works best for her daughter’s learning needs.
This online community and resource center for gifted individuals all over the world seeks to provide the infrastructure, support, education, guidance, opportunity, and professional development opportunities that allow gifted people to proactively meet their fundamental needs with and among their gifted peers. InterGifted offers online workshops and courses, matches with mentors and coaches, and special interest peer groups to foster community.
Through the Belin-Blank Center for Gifted Education, IOAPA provides online Advanced Placement (AP) courses for Iowa students whose high schools do not offer AP courses. They also offer online AP exam review and professional development for AP teachers.
Gifted student Cassidy Kao published her first book at 8 years old and founded iPoetTree at 12 years old. The nonprofit organization seeks to inspire a passion for writing in kids kindergarten to sixth grade. Cassidy provides a fun and free curriculum, supportive environment for sharing poems, and assistance with becoming a published author like her.
This helpful guide walks parents through the terminology, signs, and challenges associated with twice exceptionality, as well as information about testing and the best ways to empower children who are 2e.
This article is the second in a series of three on the processes parents go through in raising an exceptionally gifted child. This article, based on a study of 12 exceptionally gifted students, is a discussion of the educational experiences of these students and the controversies that their parents confronted regarding schooling, specifically regarding: gifted stereotypes, friendships with like-minded peers, and educational resolutions for reading, writing and mathematics.
CTY’s gifted and talented Online Programs give academically advanced students the freedom to access more than 170 online courses, expert instructors, and engaging curriculum wherever they are. Gifted online courses range from elementary to college-level and include such courses as math, AP science, Chinese, grammar, critical reading, computer science, and writing. Courses are offered in session-based, individually paced, or flexi-paced formats for added convenience. Financial aid is available.
The Journal for the Education of the Gifted offers information and research on the educational and psychological needs of gifted and talented children. Devoted to excellence in educational research and scholarship, the journal acts as a forum for diverse ideas and points of view on gifted education, counseling, and parenting.
Journal of Advanced Academics (JOAA) is a quarterly journal that focuses on research that supports and enhances advanced academic achievement for students of all ages. In particular, JOAA publishes articles that feature strategies for increasing academic achievement, programs that promote high levels of academic achievement and engagement, and programs that prepare students to engage in high-level and rigorous academics.
Julie A. Oliver is a gifted educator who works as a thinking coach for gifted kids, which means that rather than disseminating information, she guides students to engage in thoughtful discourse in an online classroom. She provides students in 4th through 8th grade with a safe and supportive space to collaborate with like-minded peers through online enrichment courses.
This qualitative study explores how students use the Renzulli Learning System (RLS), an online educational profile with a matching database that provides enrichment resources. The student sample included nine identified gifted and talented seventh- and eighth-grade students in an urban school district in Connecticut. Most of the students had been using RLS for about 2 years. The students participated in an electronic questionnaire and were interviewed during two semi-structured interviews. The research questions were centered on how the students were using RLS at school. Student answers suggested several themes regarding the effectiveness of RLS as a tool for school success, its engaging quality, and selective independence.
