This book chapter by Nicholas Colangelo was originally used as a keynote address, so the chapter consists of a combination of text and overheads. The article describes what academically talented kids have to say about various school subjects, school in general, parental involvement in their lives and peer issues. ...
This article, by Leigh Johnson, discusses some of the common misconceptions that lead many people to believe they should stay away from more challenging classes earlier in their education. "Engaging in fast-paced learning now ensures a foundation for continued exploration at the college level." ...
Drawing on his own life experience and the experiences of parents who participated in his onine seminar, Corey Cerovsek discusses various aspects of the lives of gifted young musicians. ...
Mary-Elaine Jacobsen gives parents tips on helping their gifted teens find the right career path. ...
Thomas Greenspon, Ph.D., discusses how parents, and other significant adults, have powerful influences on both the recognition and development of specific talents, on how far talents are pursued, and on the very experience children have of being talented. ...
Ann Lupkowski-Shoplik discusses about many aspects of parenting a math-talented child, including: finding mentors, above-level testing, online math programs and the benefits & drawbacks of math acceleration. ...
This article by Sylvia Rimm contains ten pointers on how to encourage girls to become successful women. It offers suggestions and explanations for each of the pointers. The brief article comes right to the point and the guidelines will be helpful to any person who spends time with young people. ...
BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - First published in 1964, Cradles of Eminence is a synthesis of the childhood experiences of more than 400 individuals deemed eminent by the authors; Victor Goertzel, Ted George Goetzel, Mildred George Goertzel, and Ariel Hansen. This book is sure to provoke thought on how to nurture gifted young people. ...
BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This article offers a book review of the first edition of Developing Mathematical Talent. It describes the main topics in each of the book chapters. The reviewer highly recommends this book as a resource for both parents and educators, and points out that although the book focuses on one academic area, the information is applicable to working with students in various academic domains. ...
BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This book review tells how author Michael Matthews, provides parents with a basic foundation of science to help them better understand their child's interest. ...
BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - Dr. Sylvia Rimm's third book in the See Jane Win series is a compilation of interviews and easy to follow, real-world recommendations, See Jane Win is recommended as an excellent resource for women of all ages. ...
BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This book is an examination of how and why intelligent girls sometimes fall short of their potential, and is a useful guide for those assisting gifted girls in achieving self-actualization.
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BOOK REVIEW - Carolyn Cook reviewed Talented Teenagers: The Roots of Success and Failure. This book, by authors Csikszentmihalyi, Rathunde and Whalen details the findings of an extensive five-year longitudinal study that strove to answer two questions: How do young people become committed to the development of their talent? And, why do some young people become disengaged from their talent? The authors sought to find commonalities and differences between those teens that went on to use their talents into adulthood from those that drift ...
BOOK REVIEW - This book is a biography of the legendary Juilliard faculty member. The author guides you through DeLay's life as a prodigious musician, her time teaching and mentoring, the talent development model developed by Juilliard, and finally the empowering teaching style of DeLay. ...
BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - The reviewer explores the different sections of the book, giving the reader a glimpse of what is to be discovered in this wonderful work. This book is a unique adventure into the world of creative individuals, both past and present. ...
Laura Vanderkam interviews George Peternel for the Gifted Exchange blog. ...
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This article, by Jan Davidson and Laura Vanderkam, discusses the issues that New York State's public schools are facing when they don't challenge their brightest children. Typically, the gifted children leave the public schools to attend specialized schools that cater to their academic needs. What happens to public schools when these gifted children leave? How can these public schools keep these gifted children? ...
This article by Camilla Benbow and Julian Stanley challenges the "extreme egalitarianism" and "dumbing-down" of American schools. The authors support a positive change, recommend emphasizing excellence for all, call for responsiveness to individual differences, and suggest basing educational policies on research findings in psychology and education. Educational policies have to take into account the vast range of individual differences among students. ...
This article by Nancy Robinson is summed up in this abstract: "In the United States, numerous options exist for gifted students to engage in special programs and individualize their trajectories. At the secondary level, the options include advancing at a rapid rate through the high school years, entering college early and college credit for competence previously acquired. No other country in the world offers such a rich array of choices. Indeed, in contest with practices elsewhere, our system borders on the chaotic. Many of us tend to see this ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
This article by Robert Albert is a report of a longitudinal study of two groups of exceptionally gifted boys. Subjects included 26 of the highest scorers in the John Hopkins Math Talent Search and 26 with an IQ score above 150. The study examined a wide range of traits among the boys and their families. ...
This article is based on the original "Eight Great Gripes." (Galbraith, 1985) Research was focused on seventh and eighth graders. The students in the study were asked, "What is it like to be gifted?" The answers were compared to the "Eight Great Gripes" and found to be remarkably similar. Authored by Mark Kunkel, Bea Chapa, Greg Patterson, and Derald Walling. ...
In this article, Dr K. Anders Ericsson discusses how experts use deliberate practice to develop expertise in their area. ...
This article tells the story of the Middle Years Scholars Program (MYSP). The Middle Years Scholars Program in Springfield, Mo., is tailored to the needs of profoundly gifted students in sixth through eighth grades. A program of Springfield Public Schools, MYSP is an example of successful public education for exceptionally intelligent students.
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This article by Linda Brody and Carol Blackburn looks at how the Study of Exceptional Talent (SET) has taken on the role of the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) to help extremely talented students thrive academically. This is a population that has scored >700 on the math portion of the SAT by age 13. The authors discuss many programming options for such students. ...
This article by Linda S. Rivers, a psychologist at the Lincoln, Nebraska Public School Gifted Program, describes how this community found a way to serve their highly gifted students by creating a school within a school. The highly gifted students are provided with differentiated curriculum. In addition, they are offered one-on-one mentoring services for an hour each school day from the time they are identified until they graduate from high school. ...
This article is a book chapter by Robert Albert. It discusses how families may facilitate the achievement of eminence of one of their members. The study looks at the early family history of Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Chatterton Jr. and Duke Ellington. The author looks at three questions: How far back in history did family influence eminence? What interpersonal relationships affected eminence? and Do the parameters function the same for eminent American minorities? ...
This article by Felice Kaufman is about a study that was done on adults who were Presidential Scholars as high school students. It gives many statistics on what the adults did after graduating from high school. It explores colleges attended, degrees attained and career choices as well as some social issues. ...
This article by Joyce VanTassel-Baska , Ed.D., answers the question "what is creativity and how do we foster it in children and young adults?" To quote the article: "creativity is elusive precisely because like intelligence it has many different manifestations, conceptions, and interpretations."
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This is a book chapter by Arnold Ross about the importance of utilizing America's brightest young people. He advocates spending our time and efforts on these people rather than just focusing on the basic competence of our work force. It includes a number of anecdotal illustrations. ...
This article was borrowed from a presentation at the Eighth Annual Conference of European Council for High Ability. In it Sidney Moon explores personal talent development, which she defines as "developed expertise in self-understanding, decision-making, and self-regulation." She speaks on the importance of developing these areas and on how to help gifted children learn to have these personal talents. Gifted children need to have these skills in order to fulfill their potential. ...
This article is a chapter from the book Talent Development III. According to the authors, John Ruscio and Teresa Amabileit, it is the social, work and educational environments in which creativity is nurtured or stifled that determines the extent to which our ability to be creative expands or contracts. They examine past “creativity” research on the influences of these environments and the direct effect on motivation and creativity. They describe the componential model of creativity which includes three distinct stages, and advance a four ...
This article is an op-ed column by Jim Delisle. In it he speaks out against theories of "multiple intelligence" and definitions of giftedness that deny the existence of high intelligence. Delisle points out that such "politically correct" views are causing schools "to scrap intact gifted programs and replace them with enrichment options for all children." The result is the further denial of an appropriate education for the highly intelligent students. ...
This article is a book chapter by Lynn Gottfredson that discusses the importance of intelligence and some of the differences between intelligence levels. It addresses the democratic society which strives for sameness when that is virtually impossible with people all having varying IQ's. Racial and ethnic factors are also discussed in this chapter. ...
This article contains a number of statistics highlighting the importance of gifted education in America. Startling statistics range from the lack of American degrees in engineering to the percentage of high school dropouts that test in the gifted range. ...
This article by Carol Tomlinson is a commentary on the "No Child Left Behind" education legislation of the Bush Administration. The article agrees that equity and minimum levels of proficiency are necessary components of an education system. It also argues that excellence in education need not be neglected when setting up such standards. ...
This article by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development, discusses the background, mission, programs and services of the Institute. Included is an explanation of the Institute's rationale and approach. It also offers some insights about supporting the profoundly gifted population. ...
This article by Samuel P. Whalen examines the fundamental tenet of contemporary educational psychology that learning is enhanced when the match between the skills of the learner and the challenges of the subject matter are optimized. In turn, advocates for talent development and gifted education have embraced the principle of "optimal match" to characterize both the conditions for optimal growth and the ways in which mainstream education fails gifted students. Whalen concludes by considering how Flow Theory can help make the idea of "optimal ma ...
Programs, curricula, and services for gifted and talented youth can best meet their needs, promote their achievements in life, and contribute to the enhancement of our society when schools identify students' specific talent strengths and focus educational services on these talents. Schools are in a unique position to identify and develop the talents of students in four major domains: academic, artistic, vocational-technical, and personal-social. ...
This chapter from the Handbook of Gifted Education reviews corroborative findings as well as current primary research. It suggests that alterations in the productivity factors have proven beneficial for ordinary and extraordinary human achievement. ...
The Civic Leadership Institute is a 3-week residential program for gifted adolescents, is a service-learning program created to help academically talented students explore complex social issues that are faced by communities and society today.
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This article is a book chapter by Douglas Dettmann and Joanne Ruthsatz. It addresses the sometimes unaccepted fact that everybody is different. In America equality is strived for to such an extent that we can fail to recognize that everybody is not the same, individuals do not have the same abilities and intellects and should not be treated the same in all cases. The achievement of the brightest is hindered by the one-size-fits-all approach of America. ...
This article by Edwin Selby and Grover Young explores a model of musical talent development and discusses some parallels between that model and the Level of Service approach. The article also briefly explores similar talent development approaches in other domains. Key elements from recent research are identified regarding the process of talent development in any area of interest. And, finally, the article discusses some challenges and opportunities related to recognizing, nurturing, and celebrating the strengths, talents, and interests of stude ...
In this article by Daniel Singal "A college professor looks at the forgotten victims of our mediocre educational system, the potentially high achievers whose SAT scores have fallen, and who read less, understand less of what they read, and know less than the top students of a generation ago." This, according to Singal is the second, less visible crisis in American education. The first is the plight of disadvantaged children in inner-city schools. ...
This article by Dr. Jan Davidson uses the term "quiet crisis" to describe the neglect of our educational system to nurture our nation's most able young minds. The article was written as an OpEd piece. It argues that this quiet crisis in effect denies future generations the benefit of those students' achievements. ...
This short article tells the story of Ken Ono, Ph.D., and how he has helped some bright students by mentoring them. "Ken Ono, Ph.D., a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has devoted a significant portion of his career to mentoring talented, young math students, but Ono says that's not something he set out to do." ...
This article by Rebecca Geiger is a qualitative study of six prominent historical figures and the mentors that played vital roles in their lives. It has been suggested that we need to learn to identify and nurture the gifts of wisdom and compassion, as these qualities are required to preserve our world and our species. Rebecca Geiger has identified these six individuals as exemplars of such gifts, and examines the qualities of their mentors, the nature of the relationships between the mentor and mentee and the long term effects of such mentorsh ...
This article by Jan Davidson is an excerpt from an address to the parents of the Davidson Young Scholars at the 2001 Reunion Gathering on July 12, 2001. She shares some her personal beliefs about philanthropy. It also includes some advice from the president and co-founder of the Davidson Institute. ...
This article by Stephen Smith is tailored more to the learning disabled child, but the information on IEPs provided is still valuable. Working together, schools, teachers and parents can create an IEP that will help the child in question to be challenged at his or her level. The author specifically addresses making the transition from IEP to classroom practice. ...
This article by James Delisle discusses parental advocacy in the school. It suggests questions a parent can ask a principal, teacher and the student in order to see if needs are being met. Pull-out programs are also discussed in this article. The author stresses the need for the pull-out teacher and regular classroom teacher to interact so that the child's needs are understood. ...
This article by Julia Osborn is the third in a series of three articles on the processes parents go through in raising an exceptionally gifted child. This article, based upon a study of 12 exceptionally gifted students, discusses the experiences of these parents in advocating for appropriate school placement for their children. A list of practical advocacy recommendations is included. ...
This article by Judith Wynn Halsted discusses the role of reading in the educational development of gifted students. The author states that it is important to "consider their intellectual and emotional development in light of reading and literature. ...
Parent-teacher conferences provide excellent opportunities for home and school to unite in an effort to enrich a child's social and academic growth. This article by Arlene DeVries offers tips for parents on how to handle parent-teacher conferences. She offers a list of things to consider and ask during the conference. ...
Written by Deborah Harmon, this article provides information on how to improve test performance across different cultures. ...
This article is the second in a series of three on the processes parents go through in raising an exceptionally gifted child. This article, based on a study of 12 exceptionally gifted students, is a discussion of the educational experiences of these students and the controversies that their parents confronted regarding schooling. Osborn lists the issues and varied resolutions regarding reading, writing, mathematics and friendship. ...
This article by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development offers parents tried-and-true strategies they can use to optimize their chances of changing the attitudes of teachers and administrators and find a solution that will optimize their child's education. These strategies include the following tips: obtain an assessment; be prepared; schedule a meeting. Advocacy is an ongoing process and parents need to remember there are no perfect schools, perfect classrooms or perfect teachers. As a child grows, additional accommodations will need t ...
This article by Christine Neville is a guide and "How To" for parents on creating a portfolio that will demonstrate specific abilities, developmental needs, and valid, concrete data for teachers and administrators who will in turn provide appropriate learning programs for the gifted child. Because teachers and administrators understand that a gifted student is out of "sync" with the class, it is important that the portfolio highlights what is being offered in the regular curriculum to the child and then focus on the developmentally appropriate ...
This article is a guide for parents who are meeting with the school to advocate for an appropriate educational program for their child. It covers preparing the meeting, the meeting itself, and the follow-up after the meeting. ...
This article by Sandra Berger offers a "How-To" process in obtaining gifted education in your school. Included are sections on Understanding the Process and Avoiding the Pitfalls (with pitfalls explained in great detail), Channeling Your Energies in the Right Direction through Systematic Advocacy, and Establishing and Maintaining a Successful Parent Advocacy Group. Other resources are included. ...
The following table provides a schedule of Talent Search programs in the United States, contact information, deadline dates and tests required. This is a great resource for parents of gifted children who want their children to experience something fun, while learning about a variety of subjects. ...
This article by Paula Olszewski-Kubilius offers an overview of the concept and practice of the Talent Search programs. It reviews the history, purpose, and benefits of the programs. In addition, it highlights specific research that discusses their reliability and validity. ...
This article by Susan Assouline and Ann Lupkowski-Shoplik describes how the Talent Search model, founded by Julian C. Stanley, identifies the academically gifted. ...
This article by Linda Brody outlines counseling and mentoring efforts underlying the talent search process. It also covers the strategies designed to help academically talented students identify, broaden and nurture their gifts. It also covers some of the other education options open to highly intelligent students. ...
This article by Joyce VanTassel-Baska expands on the legitimacy of using standardized tests to find gifted populations. It especially supports the talent searching concept of using the Scholastic Aptitude Test to find highly able junior high age populations. Three underlying principles of talent search are discussed and evaluated in light of their utility for local identification programs. ...
This article by Mark DeLong describes the four university-based regional talent search programs, including the states they serve and the states in which they offer programs. The difference between the regional talent searches and other university based programs is also explained. Also included is some background on the rationale and history of such programs. ...
Laura Vanderkam tells how Julian Stanley's work impacted her youth and many other bright students who relished the opportunity to develop their talents. ...