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Advocating for the Gifted Student
When meeting with your child's teacher, be constructive and come prepared with information about effective classroom strategies that work for gifted learners.
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Bullying and the Gifted Student
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.
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Changes to the NCLB Act
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.
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Cognitive Ability Testing
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
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Homeschooling the Gifted Child
Gifted children are a blessing and a challenge. Homeschooling gives gifted children many advantages, but may require extra work for parents.
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Is No Child Left Behind Unfair?
Schools in America are not being evaluated equitably, and the gifted children are among the ones who are suffering.
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Writing Across the Curriculum
Since gifted students can see connections that others might miss, extending reading and writing into every discipline makes sense for differentiating instruction.
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A Report Card on Assessment
In this article, teachers and administrators can evaluate improving gifted students' assessment practices.
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Active Listening for Speakers
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.
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Addressing Bullying at School
Gifted students can take leadership roles as a school's culture turns toward conflict resolution.
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An Introduction to Webbing
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.
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Applying Research to Writing
Bright, advanced or gifted and talented students learn to move from a thesis statement to develop an outline using various learning styles.
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Assessing a Written Speech
Before the students get to the podium, taking time to make sure the speech is well written can help to ensure a smooth delivery.
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Authentic Education for GATE Class
Educators are recognizing the instructional skills that recognize gifted students' multiple learning styles and intelligences that are needed to ensure mastery.
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Basic Public Speaking
Every public speaking curriculum should begin with a speech that uses a low-risk topic to gently introduce the students to what is to come.
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Bloom's Taxonomy and Webbing
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.
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Decision Making Models
In this activity, gifted and advanced students hone personal assessment skills by analyzing various decision making models.
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Do You Have a Gifted Child?
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
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Documenting a Scope and Sequence
Schools that are interested in personalizing their instruction for gifted students can begin by mapping what they teach.
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Expository Thesis Statements
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.
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From Thesis Statement to Outline
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.
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Games and Toys for the Gifted
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.
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Gifted Children and Humor
A gifted child has a more developed sense of humor by comprehending the 'gray areas' in language.
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Gifted, or ADD-ADHD?
When gifted children misbehave in the classroom, is it ADD-ADHD, or are they just bored to distraction?
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Hands-On Process-Writing
Bright, advanced or gifted and talented students learn to actively process their compositions in both their visual and kinesthetic realms as groundwork for writing.
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Integrated Curricula in Gifted Ed
Teaching gifted children becomes more effective when lessons are taught via a thematic approach instead being disjointed.
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Interdisciplinary Opportunities
Teachers discover how to apply the Hands-On Process-Writing technique across all disciplines.
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Is a Gifted Kid Lurking Near You?
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.
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Learning to Evaluate Others
Gifted students can assume another identity in learning both how to evaluate others and how to receive constructive criticism.
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Modifying Curriculum in GATE Class
While many schools find it difficult to totally differentiate education for gifted students, can a whole school curricular advancement help everyone?
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Public Speaking Education
Many gifted programs include public speaking and elocution courses; however, it can be difficult for the teachers to find any lesson plans or curricula.
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Recess and Play Are Vital
Time to cooperate and socialize disappear as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 forces schools to forgo play and recess time.
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Role-Playing to Develop Confidence
By role-playing specific kinds of characters, gifted students can learn both how to evaluate others and how to receive criticism themselves.
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Standards for Gifted Programming
Managing the performance of gifted programs is critical to making sure that all gifted students reach their potential.
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Supporting the Needs of 2e Kids
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.
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The Five Senses
Advanced students journal their explorations as they learn about taste, touch, smell, hearing and sight .
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Thinking Curriculum for the Gifted
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.
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Using Learning Styles
Bright, advanced or gifted and talented students learn to make mental interconnections as a metacognitive skill as they discover contextual relationships in prewriting.
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What Makes Gifted Kids Different?
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.
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Who Provides for Gifted Education?
Lacking American federal guidelines or support, states and local school districts pay the bills and make the decisions regarding Gifted Education.
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