Tall Poppies: Growing Up Gifted
Emily Murman speaks about the stigma attached to giftedness, the stereotypes she has faced, and the challenges she has overcome to become a college freshman at fifteen years old.
Emily Murman speaks about the stigma attached to giftedness, the stereotypes she has faced, and the challenges she has overcome to become a college freshman at fifteen years old.
This site, run by teacher and advocate for the gifted and talented, Angie French, provides information and resources for the gifted community. She offers helpful pages of links for parents, students, and teachers in addition to running a Twitter account to share information for the gifted.
This site gathers recent articles from around the web related to gifted learners and educational technology. It is moderated by Audrey Peacock, a gifted specialist and former President of the Alabama Association for Gifted Children (AAGC).
This book by Susan Winebrenner and Dina Brulles is the definitive guide to meeting the learning needs of gifted students in the mixed-abilities classroom—seamlessly and effectively with minimal preparation time. Included are practical, classroom-tested strategies and step-by-step instructions for how to use them.
Twice Exceptional Children’s Advocacy, Inc. (TECA) was founded in 2003 by a group of parents seeking to identify, support and unite twice-exceptional (2e) students and their families. Twice-exceptional students are those who are gifted with some form of disability or learning challenge. TECA’s mission is to help parents understand what twice-exceptionality is and help them identify whether their children are 2e. TECA assists parents in finding and advocating for the education and resources their children require. TECA provides a strong, vibrant, accepting community for 2e children and their families.
This presentation by Carolyn Kottmeyer of Hoagie’s Gifted goes through different tests used to identify giftedness, how to interpret scores, levels of giftedness, how to test students with learning disabilities, and recommended resources.
The 2E Resource is for parents, teachers, and professionals helping twice-exceptional children reach their potential. Resources include articles, links, advice from professionals, research-based teaching strategies, technology tips, advocacy, and provider referrals.
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.
“We live in a self-centered world, despite the call from employers and thought leaders for more cooperation and compassion. Empathy, or the ability to understand other people’s thoughts and emotions from their point of view, is a vital component of cooperation and necessary in our increasingly diverse world. “The Caring Child: Raising Empathetic and Emotionally Intelligent Children” by Christine Fonseca, pulls together the latest research from positive psychology to provide parents specific tools to help their children develop healthy empathy and emotional intelligence. Presented in an easy-to-read, conversational style, the book uses a combination of evidence-based strategies, real-world examples, and role-playing scenarios to provide parents with the tools needed to develop these important skills. It also includes specific strategies to address diverse populations and LGBTQ youth.
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.
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