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Joyce VanTassel-Baska explores the options available to educators for working with gifted children by offering strategies to employ with gifted students to prevent them from being bored in the classroom and to challenge them intellectually. She stresses cooperation between parents and educators in implementing any of these strategies.
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This full text article by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development discusses some of the practices of schools that have successfully nurtured gifted students. Some of these practices include: testing; acceleration; compacting; ability grouping; enrichment; differentiated curriculums. Schools that determine each student's ability and match the curriculum to ability, rather than age alone, are the best match for gifted students.
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This article offers a plethora of online resources and examples of how teachers can create a virtual learning environment (VLE) using a computer for gifted students in regular classrooms. Creating a virtual learning environment is a way to differentiate instruction by merging the fields of gifted and talented education and information technology.
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This article by Sandra L. Berger discusses how gifted students "need an appropriately differentiated curriculum designed to address their individual characteristics, needs, abilities, and interests. It is difficult to generalize about students who are gifted because their characteristics and needs are so personal and unique. However, as a group they comprehend complex ideas quickly, learn more rapidly and in greater depth than their age peers, and may exhibit interests that differ from those of their peers. They need time for in-depth explorati...
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This article, by Jana Kirchner & Tracy Inman, discusses the issue of differentiation and "why it is important" to educators. "Using differentiation in the classroom means designing and implementing curriculum, teaching strategies, and assessments to meet the needs, interests, and abilities of all students."
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This full text article by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development discusses some of the educational options for gifted learners that have proven effective for exceptionally bright young people. Some of these options include acceleration, credit by examination, compacting, independent study, ability grouping, dual enrollment, early college entry, and more. Ideally, parents and educators are willing to collaborate and implement an educational plan that takes into account the child's intellectual precocity and emotional development.
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This article explores things to consider for the mathematics curriculum for students who are talented in math. Subject acceleration is explored and SMPY is discussed. Authored by Julian Stanley, Ann Lupkowski and Susan Assouline.
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Historically, tension has existed between gifted education and middle school education (Tomlinson, 1992), leaving some advocates of each educational practice suspicious of the other, and leaving middle school students who are advanced in one or more dimensions of learning in a sort of educational no-man's-land. While some legitimate areas of disagreement are likely to persist, there are enough areas of shared belief to bridge the practice between gifted education and middle school education. This digest provides an overview of (1) some areas of...
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This article is a book chapter by Julian Stanley. In it the author explains that students need to be helped in learning what they do not already know, in a more individualized setting instead of being marched through course materials regardless of what they know at the start of the course. This article expounds on this situation because it especially hurts the intellectually talented, who tend to be far ahead of their grade level.
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This article by Kathi Kearney reviews the literature on full inclusion. The author notes that the research supporting full inclusion for students who are disabled did not take into account gifted students in any way -- either gifted twice-exceptional students, or gifted students who are assigned to "full inclusion" regular education classrooms. Using the logic of proponents of full inclusion, the special issues of highly gifted children are examined and a series of recommendations for the placement and education of highly gifted children in ful...
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