20 Tips for Nurturing Gifted Children
This resource compiles information from various sources as a comprehensive guide to supporting the gifted children in your life or sharing with other family members.
This resource compiles information from various sources as a comprehensive guide to supporting the gifted children in your life or sharing with other family members.
2e: Twice-Exceptional Newsletter was founded in 2003 and publishes bi-monthly publications in electronic form for those who raise, educate, and counsel high-ability, gifted children who also have learning challenges.
Get your daily dose of podcast with these tiny scientific expositions that manage to squeeze anecdotes, interviews, and a satisfying amount of information into two minute episodes. Episodes focus largely on biological topics about plants and animals, with occasional episodes rooted in other sciences such as “Is Mars Missing a Moon?
In this podcast, Scientific American provides daily, one-minute commentary on some of the most interesting developments in the field of science.
At the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY), kids are encouraged to explore the things that make them happy. Let them choose their own adventures from this reading list for bright kids compiled by CTY’s reading experts, or connect them with fellow readers through CTY’s Summer, Online, and Family programs.
In A Mind at a Time, Dr. Levine shows parents and others who care for children how to identify individual learning patterns. He explains how parents and teachers can encourage a child’s strengths and bypass the child’s weaknesses.
In this article, Jonathan Wai and Frank Worrell outline some of the common challenges faced by low-income gifted students. Being at the intersection of high-achievement and lack of resources places these students in a unique position, and often fall through the gaps in the American education system.
Edited by Susan G. Assouline, Nicholas Colangelo, Joyce VanTassel-Baska, and Ann Lupkowski-Shoplik, A Nation Empowered informs educators, parents, and policy makers of current research on acceleration, how that information has been applied to educational policy throughout the nation, and how educators can use the findings to make decisions for their brightest students.
This article summarizes a variety of views on why and when to seek an assessment, as well as the utility of different types of tests. Questions for parents to consider in the process of making such decisions are listed. Links to additional articles on assessment and its implications for educational advocacy and planning are also included. In addition, links to information on the most recent versions of the popular individually administered tests are provided.
Aaron’s World is a 50-episode audio-drama following the time-traveling adventures of a little boy and his trusty computer companion (INO) as they explore the prehistoric world. Episodes are self-contained and focus on a single prehistoric creature or science topic. A larger story arc ties the episodes together, leading listeners to an exciting finale which teaches a valuable lesson about science.
This book is Barbara Jackson Gilman’s definitive manual on gifted advocacy for gifted students. She shares how parents and teachers should document a child’s abilities to provide reasonable educational options year by year and provides imperative information on testing considerations, curriculum, successful programs, and planning your child’s education.
The purpose of the Acceleration Institute website is to inform educators, researchers, policymakers, administrators, and parents of the research and best practices concerning academic acceleration. The discussions of academic acceleration include grade skipping, early entrance to kindergarten or college, moving ahead in just one subject, and other ways of moving a student ahead to more challenging coursework.
This report examines the unique challenges of low-income high-achieving students. While these students defy the stereotype that low-income do not perform well academically, they are often forgotten and fall into the “achievement trap.” This means that despite their strong academic performance, low-income high-achieving students are disproportionately underrepresented among high achievers. Little is known about this population of students, and this report begins to uncover the nuances of their experiences in the education system.
This article by the team at the Gifted Parenting Support blog provides resources and ideas for how to ensure twice-exceptional children are understood by their school’s administrators and teachers in order to receive the best education possible.
Parents of gifted children are often in the uncomfortable position of advocating for their child when their unique learning needs are not being met at school. When we see that we have to address these educational concerns with our child’s teacher or the school’s administrators, stress and emotions can undermine our ability to reach a desirable outcome. Celi Trépanier explains how to prepare for this scenario.
The mission of AIMS Center is to translate research about math and science education into practive by creating hands-on engaging teaching activities. Located on the campus of Fresno Pacific University, the center works with universities, county offices of education, school districts, and other organizations.
ASK is a magazine for kids ages 6 to 9 for whom “Why?” is the most common word out of their mouth. ASK explains why animals sleep, what tides are, and how the solar system formed. Full of fun facts, informative scientific articles, and hands-on activities, ASK Magazine launches curious kids into hours of happy exploration.
ASPEN provides families and individuals whose lives are affected by Autism Spectrum Disorders (Asperger Syndrome, Pervasive Developmental Disorder-NOS, High Functioning Autism), and Nonverbal Learning Disabilities with education about issues surrounding the disorders; support in knowing that families are not alone, and in helping individuals with ASD’s and NLD achieve their maximum potential; advocacy in areas of appropriate educational programs, medical research funding, adult issues and increased public awareness and understanding.
This blog by Marie Sherrett details how parents of children with special education needs can assertively and effectively advocate for their children.
This article by Julia Osborn is the first in a series of three articles on the processes parents go through in raising an exceptionally gifted child. Osborn makes a distinction between “testing” and “assessment,” and focuses on some of the important and unique issues involved when assessing gifted children’s cognitive, academic, and social/emotional functioning.
Astronomy Cast is a production of the Planetary Science Institute working in collaboration with Universe Today. Hosted by Fraser Cain & Pamela Gay, Astronomy Cast provides a facts-based journey through the cosmos while telling the story of astronomy.
Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker’s article gives anecdotes of unique challenges and practical applications of how to support twice-exceptional children. Her tips are aimed to help the twice-exceptional population avoid feeling isolated and misunderstood.
Thomas Armstrong describes twelve qualities of genius–including curiosity, sensitivity, inventiveness, imagination, and joy–and includes dozens of suggested activities and helpful resources to provide “genius experiences.”
“Beautiful Minds” is psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman’s newsletter where he discusses topics relating to giftedness and intelligence.
Written for both parents and educators, Drs. Dona Matthews and Joanne Foster present practical strategies to identify and nurture exceptionally high ability in children. These authors promote the “mastery” (rather than the “mystery”) model of gifted education and challenge several common practices and assumptions. They assert that if children are to learn optimally, teachers must provide them with educational experiences that are appropriate for each individual child’s level of readiness. An important step in the process of determining a child’s level of learning is pre-testing before starting a new unit of instruction to discover the correct level of classroom instruction necessary for each child. The authors also advocate achievement testing for the same reason, and they explain how this works in the classroom.