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This article by Lisa Wright and Connie Coulianos describes a preschool for gifted children. The article opens with an account of a typical morning at Hollingworth Preschool. It goes on to explore the preschool's policies on acceptance of children, curriculum, benefits of the program and evaluations of the program.
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This article by Nicholas Colangelo and David Dettmann discusses the importance of involved parent and family relationships in the lives of gifted children. It describes the family environments of the children in the study as well as the types of things these families do together. The article stresses that not enough research has been done in this area, and that it is important for these relationships to be strong and active.
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This full text article by Gail Lewis reviews circumstances when acceleration may not be a preferred educational intervention for a highly, exceptionally or profoundly gifted child. She goes on to outline alternative provisions and strategies to use when acceleration is not possible or desirable. She also discusses potential programming pitfalls and components of successful programming.
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This article by Camilla Benbow and Julian Stanley covers eight years of studying mathematically precocious youth participating in talent search programs. It reports: 1) How the mathematically precocious students were identified; 2) How they progressed in the area of creative achievement; 3) How they progressed in their educational development with regard to fast-paced classes, gender, and early college; and 4) How instructional programs for these students must be flexible and continually adapted to the abilities of the students.
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This article highlights a new highly gifted high school program at Bellevue School District in Washington. The program provides students access to integrated classrooms and self contained gifted classrooms, as well as obtaing an International Baccalaureate Diploma, and taking Advanced Placement tests.
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This article discusses the Boise School District's gifted program. "The Boise School District has been committed to gifted education since 1975. And by employing personnel specializing in gifted education, Boise schools have been offering gifted students many flexible options. These include full-time highly gifted classrooms; acceleration; its pull-out program, GATE; independent study opportunities; ability grouping; dual enrollment; early college admission; extracurricular opportunities like talent searches and research projects; rapid grade p...
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This article by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi looks at three major issues related to creativity over a lifespan. They are: what can be learned about creativity; a model of optimal aging; and how to work with creative children. The author based this work on six years of interviews with scores of older adults who are still actively creative.
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This article discusses the success of Des Moines Public Schools and their gifted education program. Iowa leads the nation in terms of legislation guaranteeing an appropriate education. Thanks largely to the work of ITAG, school districts and other advocates, the state's policy-makers have tackled most of the major issues related to educating gifted students.
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This article examines five environmental factors for relation to productivity in regard to educational achievement and aspirations. Subjects were mathematically precocious students. The study found that outside influences do have an effect on these students. Authored by Camilla Benbow, Olya Arjmand and Herbert Walberg.
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This full text article by Ann Lupkowski-Shoplik and Susan Assouline follows four elementary students, two girls and two boys, who possess extreme talents in mathematics. These case studies track the development of the children and the development of a course of study for the children, and contains examples of how parents advocated making academic accommodations for their children. The conclusion of the article provides 11 principles that can guide other families in finding appropriate courses of study for their children.
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