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This article from Roeper Review discusses how "this study examines the effects over time of implementing the William and Mary language arts and science curriculum for gifted learners designed around the Integrated Curriculum Model (ICM) in one suburban school district. It also analyzes stakeholders' perceptions of the effectiveness of the curriculum."
http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=123212
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This is a true account of a parent's perspective. "I think that my son's Montessori story shows what can be accomplished by a school that respects the individuality of each child and emphasizes respect for all children. He spent [six] years in the Montessori elementary program, from which he will graduate this spring. It has been an unqualified success."
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/montessori.htm
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This article discusses the changes being made in Winchester, Massachusetts schools to accommodate the highly gifted population from kindergarten through twelfth grade. Reforms include changes in curriculum and the use of the term "fast learners" instead of "Gifted."
http://kidsboston.com/ladow.htm
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This website provides you with hundreds of school classroom interventions for students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Founder Dr. Cowan, is retired as a therapist, and now serves full time as a Pastor of Family and Student Ministries at a church in central California.
http://www.addinschool.com
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This article by Mary Ann Christison discusses the theory of multiple intelligences (MI). "As Gardner (1993:15) states: It is of the utmost importance that we recognize and nurture all of the varied human intelligences, and all of the combinations of intelligences. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with the many problems we face in the world."
http://exchanges.state.gov/forum/vols/vol36/no2/p2.htm
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Developed by George Betts, Ed.D. and Jolene Kercher, this program helps gifted and talented students work towards the goal of independent learning by addressing their cognitive, emotional and social needs. It incorporates five dimensions: Orientation, Individual Development, Enrichment, Seminars and In-Depth Study.
http://www.kisser.net.au/pdeo/peac/page8.html
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This website is produced by Houghton Mifflin School Division, which publishes a variety of educational materials, including textbooks, resource materials, and technology for K-8 teachers and students. Launched in January 1996, Education Place is the longest running website of any educational publisher. With more than 18,000 pages of engaging content to explore, visitors to award-winning Education Place can delve further into the subjects they most enjoy to find helpful teaching resources, textbook support, educational games, and more.
http://eduplace.com/
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This website targeted at the K-12 education community features a collection of teaching materials, curricula and free downloads. The database has many good links to internet resources on almost every school subject. There are daily updates of current resources of educational interest and sources on building lesson plans, curriculum development. The site is affiliated with Education World magazine.
http://www.education-world.com/
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This extensive guide offers a considerable amount of suggestions and guidelines for incorporating ethics and values into secondary science instruction. Included are links to a number of case studies in which science and ethics intertwine, as well as information on additional resources. Teachers are sure to find some, if not all, of the 23 model classroom lessons provided as useful.
http://www.wmich.edu/ethics/ESC/index.html
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This website aims to provide a forum for Canadian researchers, educators, organizations and families to share information concerning gifted education, research and resources across Canada.
http://www3.telus.net/giftedcanada/index.html
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You have a classroom of 20-30 students and you have varying levels of ability in your classroom. Guess who will probably learn the least in this typical classroom? Most likely it will be the 'gifted' student(s). This article by Sue Watson discusses this issue further.
http://specialed.about.com/cs/teacherstrategies/a/pbl.htm
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This article, hosted on the HighBeam website, is an editorial on course content in the gifted mathematics classroom. The author believes in listening to the student and fulfilling their needs through putting more emphasis on why, instead of how something is done; going into more depth, less breadth of coverage; and more challenge.
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-106290405.html
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Posted by the Council for Exceptional Children, this article provides a listing of sample practices for gifted programs.
http://ericec.org/faq/gt-model.html
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This article written by Glenda Lappan and hosted on the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics website, advocates the need for gifted children to be challenged in their course work, specifically in mathematics. She stresses the importance of using outside resources for children to read and study on their own. Lappan states that mathematics clubs can provide extra opportunities.
http://www.nctm.org/news/pastpresident/1999-03_president.htm
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This webpage displays the notes for a talk at the National Association of Scholars and provides the author's responses to the process of inflation in education, the death of the “new math” and rise of the “know-nothings”.
http://www.math.rochester.edu/people/faculty/rarm/nas_talk.html
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"Inquiry" is defined as "a seeking for truth, information, or knowledge -- seeking information by questioning." Individuals carry on the process of inquiry from the time they are born until they die. This is true even though they might not reflect upon the process. Infants begin to make sense of the world by inquiring. From birth, babies observe faces that come near, they grasp objects, they put things in their mouths, and they turn toward voices. The process of inquiring begins with gathering information and data through applying the human sen...
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/inquiry/index.html
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This page on Renzulli.com shows how educators can using virtual field trips to excite and motivate students. The organizers have catalogued outstanding virtual field trips in a wide variety of content areas. In the Renzulli Learning System, these virtual field trips will enable your students to learn about exciting places that they will “virtually” visit and things and objects that they can explore.
http://www.renzullilearning.com/LearnMaps.aspx?type=Virtual
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This website provides information for teachers on lesson planning. The Education Resource Group is dedicated to helping professional educators, student teachers, parents, mentors and tutors educate students by providing access to education resources.
http://lessonplans.com
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This interview between Center for Talent Development director Paula Olszewski-Kubilius, Ph.D and her former student, Issac Greenspan discusses his education from elementary school to high school. Issac reviewed his experience in various programs that would accommodate his accelerated academic pace. In addition to these programs, he also describes his social growth and the importance of parent advocacy and teacher mentoring.
http://www.ctd.northwestern.edu/resources/talentdevelopment/mathinterview.html
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In this article, Nancy Lashaway-Bokina describes effective mentoring and motivational techniques. She covers methods of guiding lower-income students and highlights one teacher's unique motivational ideas.
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This article link takes users to the Prufrock Press Web site. Laura McGrail states that meeting the needs of gifted students in the classroom "equals and often exceeds" challenges of disabled students. The article continues in a how to format, listing easy to implement strategies and modifications for curriculum, assignments, lesson plans and scheduling. The article concludes with three separate case studies of how modifying the curriculum was beneficial for three students.
http://www.prufrock.com/client/client_pages/Modfying_Curriculum.cfm
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This website by the University of Oregon's Teaching Effectiveness program answers many common questions about student motivation. Although not specific to the profoundly gifted population, many of the answers are applicable. Some answers are tailored to teachers, others are appropriate for homeschoolers.
http://tep.uoregon.edu/resources/faqs/motivatingstudents/motivating.html
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This article link is an excerpt from Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis from the University of California, Berkley. The article outlines some general strategies, then offers more detailed and specific suggestions, including how to structure courses and incorporating instructional behaviors among others. These tips are contructed in such a way as to be relevant to the GT population.
http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/motiv.htm
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This website offers just what the name implies -- interactive math. Learning and understanding mathematics, at every level, requires student engagement. Mathematics is not, as has been said, a spectator sport. Too much of current instruction fails to actively involve students. One way to address the problem is through the use of manipulatives, physical objects that help students visualize relationships and applications. We can now use computers to create virtual learning environments to address the same goals.
http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/index.html
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The role of this advocacy organization is to give added visibility to effective teaching and learning practices. Another goal is to help mainstream certain ideas and make them more accessible. This organization offers many science resources, including specialized information for gifted learners. It is often used as a means for new educational organizations and profits.
http://www.newhorizons.org/
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"More students are taking--and passing--Advanced Placement (AP) exams in every part of the country, as college-level work in high school becomes increasingly common, the College Board reported Jan. 25. Many state education officials attribute the gains in participation at least in part to online courses that expand the reach of advanced-level instruction. "
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStoryts.cfm?ArticleID=5474
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This website has curriculum and other fun resources for teachers of Mathematics which may be downloaded from the site for FREE.
http://www.lgfl.net/lgfl/leas/enfield/schools/southgate/accounts/staff/dwhitfield/web/pages/teacher_resources_contents.html
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This article by Dr. Tracy Riley of Massey University in New Zealand, outlines a theory for planning gifted and talented learning experiences.
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/gifted/reading/theory/plan-diff_e.php
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This online curriculum resource offers professionals and homeschool parents the opportunities to improve their skills. Through a variety of professional development programs and resources, educators can learn how to effectively use Library of Congress resources in the classroom. Programs include teleconferencing workshops, online and downloadable materials, live workshops and a fellowship program. All of this is made to support and take advantage of the online resources of the Library of Congress.
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/educators/index.html
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This article link reviews the content, pedagogical approaches, and problems with current algebra textbooks. The study includes a chart with overall information about the comparisons, reviews of individual textbooks, instructional criteria, and the criteria used to evaluate each individual text. This link will be helpful to parents in selecting an appropriate algebra textbook for a homeschooling program, although parents of gifted students should keep in mind that the evaluations were based on an age-in-grade, rather than an early, presentation ...
http://www.project2061.org/newsinfo/press/rl000426.htm
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This online educational manual submitted by the Nebraska Department of Education is designed for Nebraska educators of the gifted, and should be of general interest to any parent or educator of the gifted. This manual covers a variety of techniques often used to alter the curriculum to provide a more appropriate education for gifted students. In addition it discusses social-emotional development, and other relevant issues to parents and educators, such as funding and staff development.
http://www.nde.state.ne.us/HAL/PromisCURR.pdf
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This article link presents two strategies to help highly able students get more out of school. Teachers may find that the following strategies enable them to challenge and motivate not only gifted students, but also other students who have talents and abilities in specific areas. How to get the best performance from every student is a challenging task, especially in classrooms where there are many different levels of ability. Often, students who are gifted are not challenged to perform to their full capacity because they seem to be doing just ...
http://ericec.org/digests/e524.html
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SciGuides "provide instructional examples on how to use the URL resources within the SciGuides with your students, whether you have a one-computer classroom or access to a lab down the hall. At the theme level, each SciGuide contains specific lesson plans, vignettes, audio files, and student work samples. All of these resources illustrate how you might use them in the classroom; for example, you might use them to demonstrate a visual simulation of a difficult concept, collaborate with other students in virtual experiments, or complete or create...
http://sciguides.nsta.org/
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This online curriculum for professional development was created and is used by the Library of Congress. These lessons are now available online for YOUR use in local professional development activities. Topics covered include Classroom Applications; Search Skills; Technology; and Working with Primary Sources. Each workshop includes all the material and support needed to either guide oneself or a group of professionals through the course.
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/educators/workshop/ssindex.html
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This article by Robert Harris covers many common tips for motivating children. The author goes a step further, however, by examining motivation as it relates to baseball. The result is a novel look at motivating students.
http://www.virtualsalt.com/motivate.htm
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This article provides tips for teaching the gifted student to play an instrument, and looks at some of the problems that the child may face due to his or her giftedness.
http://www.serve.com/marbeth/gifted_students.html
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This study, published in Intervention in School and Clinic, Vol.38, No.3, January 2003 (pp. 131-137) gives a description of the different methods of teaching twice-exceptional students. There are a series of detailed tips for teachers on how to deal with the challenge that many gifted students face with learning or with social disorders. There is also a list of methods on how to facilitate the gifted abilities of students - not focusing solely on their disabilities.
http://ericec.org/fact/teach-strat.pdf
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This article, by Martha Brockenbrough, highlights how "the first week of school can be scary and exciting for a lot of people, including parents and teachers. But it's especially scary and exciting for those small, lovable people we call kids."
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/Features/Columns/?article=teacherconnectionsmain
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This online curriculum by U.S. News & World Report integrates current events into the classroom. "On these pages are dozens of techniques you can use to bring your classroom alive -- essential ideas for social studies, economics, English, journalism, composition, science and business classes; ways to challenge students as they work individually or in groups. You'll find fresh teaching methods to strengthen basic skills and to promote critical thinking. All levels of activities are included -- from basic skill-building exercises to thought-pr...
http://www.usnewsclassroom.com/index.html
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The authors summarize the purpose of the Unicorn project, a joint project in Queensland, Australia, in relation to gifted education and its goals to improve access, participation and educational outcomes for underacheiving gifted and talented students through enrichment opportunities.
http://www.nexus.edu.au/teachstud/gat/lum_lah.htm
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This is one of the most detailed, comprehensive websites on the Internet for English/Language Arts teaching resources. There are detailed lesson plans, videos, biographies, useful classroom activities and more. This site intends to serve as a guide for beginning teachers and provide new ideas for those more established. Educators can use online technology to share ideas with one another and benefit from each others' work. There are a great deal of Language Arts and English resources, including Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate ...
http://www.webenglishteacher.com
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Knowledge of learning styles can help both educators and learners improve their effectiveness. In this feature, the author recommends sites to help you discover your learning style, and suggest resources describing optimal teaching and learning strategies for each.
http://adulted.about.com/cs/learningstyles/a/lrng_style.htm
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