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Gifted Education Resources

Great resources for teachers of gifted students.

Acceleration

An argument in favor of 'developmentally appropriate curriculum'.

Analogy Anthology

Use these analogies to better understand what gifted children feel if their unique abilities are not recognized.

A Call for Understanding

This site is devoted to helping increase awareness of the problems that highly and profoundly gifted students face.

Center for Talented Youth

From Johns Hopkins University. CTY Talent Searches identify, assess, and recognize students with exceptional mathematical and/or verbal reasoning abilities.

Gifted Child Society's Teachers' Lounge

Find resources, conferences and discussions for teachers of the Gifted.

Gifted Resources From ERIC

Take advantage of the numerous articles, bibliographies and infoguides available from ERIC.

Glossary of Gifted Education

Large glossary of terms specific to gifted education.

The National Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children

Aimed at parents of gifted students, this site points out many problems that the gifted face in public schools.

The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented

This center is devoted to studying the needs of the gifted, particularly those who are traditionally ignored such as LEP students or disadvantaged youths.

Snappy Comebacks for Grade Accelerated Children

These could be given to students who need a little help in dealing with teasing, etc.

Stuck in Another Dimension

Written by a teacher, this article discusses dealing with an exceptionally gifted student in a system not meeeting his needs.

Summer Programs for Talented Youth

From Johns Hopkins University. Qualified students choose from a wide range of courses in the humanities, mathematics, and sciences held at sixteen sites in the United States.

Thinking Through Early Entrance to College

This article gives a parent's perspective on early college entrance.

Thirteen Days of Radical Acceleration

Written by a student placed into High School at age 8, this 'song' is a cute but accurate view at life in school for the accelerated student.

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