Articles related to "Parenting Gifted Children"

When meeting with your child's teacher, be constructive and come prepared with information about effective classroom strategies that work for gifted learners.

While bullying in schools is almost a given these days, changing the way conflicts are handled can be the key to addressing bullying and teasing.

While the stated goals of the No Child Left Behind Act seem reasonable at first glance, as the years pass educators and parents have come to question its effectiveness.

Many schools offer GATE, or Gifted and Talented Education programs for their gifted or potentially gifted children, but how are these children identified for these classe

The Iowa Acceleration Scale explores a gifted and talented child's academic, social and emotional development to determine if skipping grades is currently beneficial.

Schools in America are not being evaluated equitably, and the gifted children are among the ones who are suffering.

While many students revel at the opportunity to kick back for a few weeks or months, gifted students might appreciate some higher-order enrichment.

In this article, teachers and administrators can evaluate improving gifted students' assessment practices.

Active participation in a public speaking class means that the listeners as well as the speakers need to learn how to focus and work as a team.

Gifted students can take leadership roles as a school's culture turns toward conflict resolution.

In this introductory article, the question is how do bright, advanced or gifted and talented students make sense of issues that probably seem completely unrelated.

Bright, advanced or gifted and talented students learn to move from a thesis statement to develop an outline using various learning styles.

Educators are recognizing the instructional skills that recognize gifted students' multiple learning styles and intelligences that are needed to ensure mastery.

In this article, bright, advanced or gifted and talented students learn to add meaning to the way they develop webs using Bloom's Taxonomy in this advanced method.

In this activity, gifted and advanced students hone personal assessment skills by analyzing various decision making models.

While many schools and educational professionals are trained to identify gifted children, here is an easy way for parents to get a first glance at their child's potential

Advanced students learn to understand that their ideas, beliefs, insights and hunches can be stated in a non-threatening way by writing a thoughtful thesis statement.

Gifted, advanced and talented students learn to apply a thesis statement to create a detailed outline in this final article in the Process-Writing series.

Somewhere along the way, some adults have concluded that gifted children are far too sophisticated to need play time, when in fact everyone needs a little fun and games.

A gifted child has a more developed sense of humor by comprehending the 'gray areas' in language.

When gifted children misbehave in the classroom, is it ADD-ADHD, or are they just bored to distraction?

Bright, advanced or gifted and talented students learn to actively process their compositions in both their visual and kinesthetic realms as groundwork for writing.

Raising a gifted child can be challenging. There are several Australian organisations that provide information and support for parents of gifted children.

Teaching gifted children becomes more effective when lessons are taught via a thematic approach instead being disjointed.

Teachers discover how to apply the Hands-On Process-Writing technique across all disciplines.

Here is a lighthearted list of questions that parents who suspect they have a gifted child skulking about might want to tape to their refrigerator door for reference.

Gifted children can be taught to harness their drive to succeed in healthy, productive ways that make both their lives, and their parent's lives less stressful.

Many gifted programs include public speaking and elocution courses; however, it can be difficult for the teachers to find any lesson plans or curricula.

Time to cooperate and socialize disappear as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 forces schools to forgo play and recess time.

The paradox of having a child or student who is both gifted and learning disabled can be confusing for parents and teachers alike as they search for resources.

Advanced students journal their explorations as they learn about taste, touch, smell, hearing and sight .

As gifted kids' reading abilities surpass age-appropriate content, there are options for guiding them toward titles that will appeal to both readers and their parents.

This article will provide a broad overview of some of the steps necessary for schools to develop a goals-driven parallel "Thinking Curriculum," for its advanced students.

Bright, advanced or gifted and talented students learn to make mental interconnections as a metacognitive skill as they discover contextual relationships in prewriting.

If parents were to sit down with their gifted child and ask how he or she wants to be treated, the answers might be surprising.

Lacking American federal guidelines or support, states and local school districts pay the bills and make the decisions regarding Gifted Education.

There's a new kind of student in the classroom: Indigo kids. Intelligent, curious, & lacking fear or limits, they force teachers to rethink old paradigms of teaching.

Most gifted children possess special abilities for the abstract thinking required to understand poetry.

School breaks can be a challenge for both gifted kids and their parents.