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Despite changing rhetoric, fifty years of educational reforms largely relied on deductive, didactic pedagogy focused on rote memorization and knowledge consumption. This article focuses on inductive, investigative approaches to school that lead to enjoyment, engagement, and enthusiasm for learning.
This article by Wenda Sheard, J.D., Ph.D. provides a guide for gifted coordinators, teachers, and parent advocates.
The Common Mom is a blog started by the mother of a gifted child. She discusses her journey of raising a gifted child, as well as other topics in the field of gifted education. She hopes to create a space for networking and sharing resources within the gifted community.
The Deep End is a blog written by Stephanie Tolan, which she hopes will help create a space to discuss the needs and challenges of being a gifted child. Tolan has been in the field of gifted education for 30 years, focusing specifically on highly to profoundly gifted children. She has been a speaker at numerous conferences and co-authored the book “Guiding the Gifted Child.” Her experience and passion for gifted education motivates her to share her insights with parents and educators through her blog.
This article focuses on kids need to be creative, and understanding how creativity works by understanding the difference between convergent and divergent thinking, and how to address the lack of divergent thinking in education.
The Fissure is created by NuMinds Enrichment, a revolutionary educational enrichment company based out of Dallas, Texas. This blog is an outlet for real, inspired writing on education and the evolution of learning in the 21st century. There are several articles focused on gifted education.
The Fringy Bit is a website started by the parents of three “fringy” kids. They use this term to describe children who are gifted and those who experience other forms of neuro-diversity. Through their website, they have created a blog and podcast, focusing on creating a community for the parents of gifted children. Heather Boorman has a background in clinical social work, and her husband Jonathan is a licensed marriage and family therapist.
This documentary (still in production as of December 2018, but a trailer is available) will focus on the mythology of what it means to be gifted in the 21st century. It aims to reveal the educational challenges, social isolation, emotional sensitivities and physical threats faced by many gifted individuals in our society, then examine the search for solutions. Viewers of The G Word will come away understanding the risks of maintaining the status quo and the need for new approaches to harness the potential of gifted individuals.
Psychologist Mary-Elaine Jacobsen’s book draws on a wide range of groundbreaking research and her own clinical experience to show America’s twenty million gifted adults how to identify and free their extraordinary potential. Demystifying what it means to be a gifted adult, this book offers practical guidance for eliminating self-sabotage and underachievement.
Todd Stanley is an author, blogger, speaker, and presenter on the topic of gifted education. As a former classroom teacher and current gifted services coordinator, he is an expert in many gifted issues, especially underachievement in gifted learners.
Young readers of this upbeat and informative book by Judy Galbraith, MA learn how to cope with high expectations, perfectionism, labels, bullying, friendships, and more.
In this workbook, a therapist offers fun activities and strategies to help children ages 7 to 12 boost self-confidence, reduce stress and overwhelm, and balance emotions.
The Gifted Resource Center of New England is located in Providence, RI and serves the needs of gifted children, adolescents and their families. The Center offers clinical psychological and educational services in assessment, psychotherapy, curriculum design, school consultation and teacher in-service. They also offer articles, resource lists, and suggested readings.
Based on new surveys of nearly 1,500 gifted teens, this book is the ultimate guide to thriving in a world that doesn’t always support or understand high ability. Full of surprising facts, survey results, step-by-step strategies, inspiring teen quotes, and insightful expert essays, the guide gives readers the tools they need to appreciate their giftedness as an asset and use it to make the most of who they are. Authors Judy Galbraith and Jim Delisle have revised the fourth edition for a new generation of high-end learners.
The High Flyer is a unique collaboration between the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Both organizations aim to expand the public’s understanding of the needs of gifted and talented children, to increase public urgency to serve them, and to dispel common myths.
This Handbook is edited by Larisa Shavinina one of the most comprehensive and authoritative account available on what giftedness is, how it is measured, how it develops, and how it affects individuals and societies. Leading specialists from around the world analyze the multifaceted nature of giftedness, its types, its specificity in various domains and contexts, societal demands on it, its relationship to economy, recent advances and innovations in gifted education, and future trends.
The Kid Should See This is a growing library of smart & cool videos that can be watched in the classroom or together at home. Enjoy 8-12 new vids each week, and search 2,700+ videos in the archives.
Kim Moldofsky’s mission for this blog is to help parents raise STEM-loving, Maker-friendly kids. She also writes about raising gifted children, girls in STEM, and the Maker Movement. Additionally, she is the founder of #STEMchat, which brings parents, educators and STEM professionals together monthly via Twitter to share resources and ideas.
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This milestone text by Joachim Stoeber provides a comprehensive and state-of-the art overview of perfectionism theory, research, and treatment from the past 25 years, with contributions from the leading researchers in the field.
This article by Barbara Swicord, Ed.D., gives parents and teachers a perspective on the gifted program, that there are many layers of giftedness, and that it can be difficult to meet the gifted student’s needs.
The Rural School and Community Trust is a national nonprofit organization addressing the crucial relationship between good schools and thriving communities. Working in some of the poorest, most challenging places, the Rural Trust involves young people in learning linked to their communities, improves the quality of teaching and school leadership, and advocates in a variety of ways for appropriate state educational policies, such as attending to the gifted in rural schools, and including the key issue of equitable and adequate funding for rural schools.
The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children provides a comprehensive summary of the empirical research on the social and emotional development of gifted children by leading authorities in the field. It includes several features that make it the leading text on what we know about the social and emotional development of gifted children. It also includes noteworthy variations that have been observed across cultural groups or global contexts.
Readers of this book will learn what giftedness is (and isn’t), what makes gifted kids so special, how kids are identified as gifted, and why some kids fall through the cracks during the identification process. The book also includes encouraging, practical tips for living with your gifted child—and handling the endless questions, high energy, and too-smart mouth that often go along with giftedness.
