AletaToki's annual edition of collected essays integrates gifted talent with mainstream issues and current events, providing a public forum for profoundly intelligent students to voice their opinions on any topic of personal interest.
Educational Options is about meeting the social, emotional, and academic needs of the intellectually gifted. It is about "thinking outside the box," for people who do not fit the norms. Although Educational Options is centered in Minnesota and especially serves the needs of gifted children in Minnesota, it is possible to arrange for assessments and consultations from anywhere in the country.
This website is Dr. Sylvia Rimm's homepage. It contains links to numerous articles that are relevant to the profoundly intelligent and their parents. Her books are described and there are excerpts from her books on the site as well as ways to order them. She also has tapes, a newsletter, and other items of interest. Dr. Rimm's Family Achievement Clinic specializes in gifted children who have problems in school as well as counseling on other gifted issues.
One of the top gifted education and talent development centers in the nation, the Belin-Blank Center has established itself as a worldwide leader in research, training and gifted resources. Gifted students are the focus – this organization concentrates on identification, specialized opportunities (such as talent searches and summer programs) and much more. With a recent focus on international education, useful policy information and more is available for those interested, all over the globe. There are also a number of resources available for parents and teachers.
The Gifted Resource Center of New England, located in Providence, RI, serves the needs of gifted children, adolescents and their families. Clinical psychological and educational services are offered in assessment, psychotherapy, curriculum design, school consultation and teacher in-service. Also, articles, resource lists, and suggested readings are offered.
BESTS is designed to identify, via above-level testing, students in grades 4-9 who need further educational challenge to fully realize their academic talent. Above-level testing is an educational procedure in which a test developed for older students is administered to younger students. BESTS students are eligible to participate in Belin-Blank Center precollege programs. The Center currently offers ten different summer programs as well as an academic-year program that takes place on selected Saturdays during the fall and spring semesters.
This talent search identifies academically talented third through sixth graders by giving them a test designed for eighth graders.
Since 1979, the Center for Talented Youth (CTY) at Johns Hopkins University has focused on the needs of students with exceptionally high academic abilities. The CTY community includes very bright students from all over the world whose talents place them well ahead of their agemates. These students need special attention: greater academic challenges, interaction with intellectual peers, and teaching strategies designed especially for the gifted.
This academic talent search program is based on above-level testing and optimal match. Gifted students who achieve above grade level can especially benefit from this Center for Innovative and Talented Youth (CITY) program, as it may more accurately measure their unique abilities.
The Duke University Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP) identifies gifted children in 4th, 5th and 7th grades and provides resources to nurture the development of these exceptionally bright youngsters. Duke TIP is committed to serving this unique group of students by providing services and programs beyond what is offered in the classroom. Through Duke TIP, a whole range of activities and programs are accessible to parents and teachers to meet the individual needs of gifted children.
Compiled by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development, this comprehensive table provides a schedule of Talent Search programs in the United States. Much of the information is applicable to summer programs.
The University of Washington is home to an internationally unique and renowned resource for gifted students, the Halbert and Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars. For more than 25 years, the Robinson Center has been the gateway through which some of the brightest young scholars in Washington State enter the UW and/or participate in academically accelerated summer courses. The Robinson Center focuses on the vital questions about how to optimize young people's development and inspire them to achieve personal and professional excellence, as well as contribute to their communities. In addition to its research and the courses taught by its faculty, the Center annually serves families and youth throughout the State of Washington through the following programs: the Washington Search for Young Scholars; Summer Challenge and Summer Stretch (for students in Grades 5-9); the Transition School/Early Entrance Program (for students no older than 14; and the UW Academy for Young Scholars (for students who enter the UW Honors Program after grade 10).
The University of California, Irvine sponsors the UCI Academic Talent Search (ATS), a two-fold testing program designed for students in grades six - ten. It identifies students with extraordinary mathematical and/or verbal reasoning abilities, assists participants in their placement in pre-college programs, and offers information and materials to aid parents and educators of high-ability students. By participating in ATS, students gain valuable information about mathematical and verbal abilities early in their academic career, enabling them to plan the most appropriate college-prep program. The ATS also offers an opportunity to sharpen test-taking skills in preparation for the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT I) and for the Preliminary Scholastic Assessment Test (PSAT), the basis for National Merit Scholarship awards. Students are able become familiar with these reasoning-ability tests and learn strategies for taking them well in advance of the crucial junior and senior years of high school.
Amend Psychological Services provides comprehensive psychological services including assessment and evaluation, consultations, counseling, and therapy for children, adolescents, and their families.
Assessment is at the center of all good teaching, and this book is designed to provide a clear, comprehensive guide to the assessment of students with mild disabilities. This book will give you both an understanding of the assessment process and the concrete, practical skills necessary to assess special students successfully so that you can teach them well.
The standard for all assessment personnel, this book continues its tradition of evenhanded coverage of formal and informal assessment for the purpose of making educational decisions about students.
This is Hollingworth's classic set of case studies of 12 children above 180 IQ. For most of the 20th century, this book was the definitive work on profoundly gifted children. It is an absolute must-read for anyone who is raising, teaching, counseling, or assessing a profoundly gifted child. The book consists of detailed case studies of the 12 children, including early childhood developmental history; school history and adjustment; test performance on a variety of measures; examples of children's work; and, as far as was possible to trace, their progress into adulthood. The book concludes with chapters that summarize the findings of the studies and raise specific issues relating to schooling, leadership, creativity, and parenting.
In this book, David Sousa examines why traditional talent-identification techniques are inadequate (and often inaccurate), and presents methods that will allow you to identify giftedness and talent potential with greater accuracy than ever before.
This practical resource offers up-to-date information for building an effictive, defenssible identification process. It acts as a hands-on, research-based guide for identifying gifted and talented children.
Written by six experts in the field, this award winning book (2006 recipient of the ForeWord Magazine's Gold Medal Best Book of the Year Award in Psychology) discusses the importance of identifying giftedness and understanding how the characteristics of being gifted are often similar to those used to diagnosis disorders such as ADHD, ODD, Bipolar, OCD, Autism, or Asperser’s. This book outlines steps for successfully identifying the differences between giftedness and disorders.
This book is written specifically for parents who wonder if their child is gifted. Author David Palmer helps parents who have little or no experience with gifted testing and programming and explains these topics in-depth. The text is written in a succinct, easy-to-understand format and answers the questions that parents most commonly ask.
Alexandra Golon explains how the reader can assess and identify a visual-spatial child then offers tips to parent and educate them. This book also serves to enlighten the rest of the family as well.
With Dr. Ruby Pane, Dr. Paul Slocumb, former president of Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented and an educator for 30 years, explains how standard identification tools are not the best way to identify gifted children in poverty. The authors have created new instruments that take poverty into account, which provide schools a method for achieving equity in gifted programs.
John Philo Dixon decribes ways to identify spatial children by addressing their cognitive perception and offers advice on methods of teaching in the classroom.
This book by editors Susan Baum and Sally M. Reis, is from the Essential Readings in Gifted Education Series and addresses how special learning needs, cultural expectations and issues of poverty greatly complicate the identification of gifts and talents among at-risk students. Key topics include strategies for identifying giftedness masked by gender, cultural, economic, and/or behavioral issues
This GT program is charged with identifying academically gifted students and providing for the special needs of these students. Gifted students tend to learn at a remarkably rapid rate, to be extremely sensitive and intense. The characteristics of gifted students create special needs which the Fort Bend ISD/GT Program is designed to meet.
Gifted Education Press is one of the leading publishers of books and periodicals on identifying and teaching the gifted. The company produces numerous rigorous books in the sciences, mathematics and humanities, as well as a quarterly publication, Gifted Education Press Quarterly.
Pearson Education sells tests for school-age students that provide insight about achievement, ability, behavior, and communication. The also sells psychological assessments to measure intelligence, achievement, development, behavior, and personality.
"The system for identifying gifted and talented students described in this article is based on a broad range of research that has accumulated over the years on the characteristics of creative and productive individuals (Renzulli, 1986). Essentially, this research tells us that highly productive people are characterized by three interlocking clusters of ability, these clusters being above average (though not necessarily superior) ability, task commitment, and creativity."
This About.com site is filled with articles, a blog and other useful information for anyone interested in learning more about gifted students. Topics include how to identify gifted young people, their educational needs and parenting help.
This article provides an overview of the process involved with assessing gifted children. Author Julia Osborn covers a number of issues related to assessment, including: The differences between testing and assessment; the relevance of the child's age, intellectual ability and educational ability and more. Osborn highlights the fact that there are both similarities and differences in the assessment process between gifted students and other types of children.
Helen Dowland is a Gifted Education Consultant who specializes in analyzing problems and developing practical solutions. On her website, she offers advice and a great variety of downloadable documents for personal use by parents and teachers.
This online article by David Farmer provides some ideas on identifying and parenting gifted preschoolers. Farmer suggests parents should take notice of milestones other than the common ones of walking, talking etc., such as advanced thinking, reasoning, particular creativity, humour and joke telling, spontaneity and being competitive.
Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation (PARE) is an online journal that provides education professionals access to articles that can have a positive impact on assessment, research, evaluation, and teaching practice, especially at the local education agency (LEA) level.
This article, on Wrightslaw.com, is a useful starting point for understanding more about assessment. Authors: Peter W. D. Wright, Esq. and Pamela Darr Wright, M.A., M.S.W.
This is such a great resource to help parents understand tests and measurements. It talks about evidence and law of testing, the process of educational decision-making, statistics and general principles. It also discusses the bell curve and understanding the test data. This is a very in-depth article.