+ Brilliant, Clear, Practical + The ultimate parents' guide
I have read many books on the subject of parenting gifted children and trying to meet their academic needs -- this is one of the better ones, and certainly one of the most practical. It will help parents navigate the school system and advocate for their child's educational needs. Reading this book ...
Knowledgeably compiled and edited by Joan Franklin Smutny (the founder and director of the Center for the Gifted at National-Louis University), Designing And Developing Programs For Gifted Students is a service publication of the National Association for Gifted Children and collects under one cover ...
The Hunter College Campus Schools have always been committed to excellence - and since 1941 to the particular kind of excellence related to identifying and teaching gifted students. For half of that time, since 1965, they have been searching for various ways to be equitable as well, perpetually refining admissions policy to accommodate diversity. Elizabeth Stone chronicles each stage of these ...
Educating Your Gifted Child by Vicki Caruana is a thoroughly user-friendly resource for parents of gifted children, dispelling common myths about parenting and about especially gifted/talented children, offering stories drawn from true-life experience, sharing encouragement for those having a ...
This book will help pre-service and in-service teachers learn the new practices with which to teach the creative child. These practices are steeped in theory and also provide mechanisms to identify creative students. This book provides the methods with which to motivate and teach the creative child, with an understanding of the types of barriers that likely will stifle productivity in the ...
Picking up where its companion, 20 Ideas , leaves off, 20 More Ideas offers lessons developed by master teachers across the nation. Excite your students with these creative ideas for teaching gifted kids at the secondary level. Just imagine the following scenarios: helping your students organize an evening dinner theater featuring a drama written and produced by your students, learning the ins ...
Building a gifted program from scratch? Evaluating or changing your gifted program? This CD with colorfully animated PowerPoint slides and manual will give you everything you need for staff development, and will allow you to customize sessions for parents or school boards. The manual contains background materials with references as well as reproducible pages that can be used as handouts.
+ Perfect for any who would understand academic competitions for grades K-12
A better title for the book would be "Fun Competitions for Youth". This is NOT a book only for "Gifted Students"! While some of the competitions described are certainly for students who have a strong interest in a specific area most do not require that a student be "gifted" with a high IQ.
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A straightforward listing of more than 140 competitions in academics
Competitions for Talented Kids is a straightforward listing of more than 140 competitions in academics, fine and performing arts, leadership, and service learning. Each listing is 1-2 pages in length and includes details such as address, website, and contact information for the contest; a brief ...
Being Gifted in School by Tracy L. Cross and Larry J. Coleman. Prufrock Press, Waco, TX, 2000. This is a very comprehensive book about research, theory and practices in gifted education. While it is a general text, it is probably not for newcomers to the field. The book is very rich in research ...
Best first read for parents of smart school failures.
Complete history and philosophy of a unique school in Washington, DC The Lab School of Washington, dedicated to the creative education of intelligent disabled students. Most likely a model for all schools in the future. Smith started using the arts to teach difficult students long before the ...
A valuable resource for teachers, students, & parents
+ creativity in the classroom:schools of curious delight
I am always fascinated by creativity. Whenever I come across a creativity book, irrespective of whether it is intended for the business or academic world, I will always scan it first and if it appears "intriguing" judging from the front/back covers, table of contents and index page, I will often ...
Teachers and parents can use this book to help them to effectively work with different types of gifted secondary level students, and to better understand their academic and social-emotional problems. The author is an outstanding teacher who discusses how he has helped students from different ethnic groups and social classes to improve their academic abilities and social-emotional skills. The ...
In today's high-pressured atmosphere to "get the scores up," teachers and students find themselves faced with more and more highly-structured, prescripted lessons that allow for little creativity and exploration. However, both students and teachers deserve a balanced education that includes exciting opportunities to delve into areas of strong interest. An Enrichment Cluster Program presents a ...
Middle school has become a play ground for social radicals
+ A review from the Trenches of Education + Jeremiah Reedy reviews THE WAR AGAINST EXCELLENCE
Other books have reviewed the decline of education in American with a broad general view. Cheri Pierson Yecke focuses on the middle school movement over the last 30 plus years, and how many facets of the middle school movement have hurt specifically the talented and gifted children, but also ...
Excellent textbook and general info book for teachers
I have been teaching a course on Exceptional Development for a university for about 5 years now, and have used this textbook all the way through. This book is FANTASTIC. It is easy to read, easy to follow, and set up in a logical manner. It gives a nice broad overview of exceptional development, ...
The authors of this book offer practical help to teachers in making day-to-day provision for the gifted and talented pupils in their classroom. Designed mainly for primary teacher, intending teachers and teacher trainers, the book draws together current findings in curriculum provision in the core subjects, links theory and practice in such a way that the readers can benefit from exemplar ...
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