The Davdison Institute Team designed this guidebook for parents interested in addressing the needs of their exceptionally gifted
children. It is to be used as an organizational tool and informational guide to building a strong foundation for parent advocacy efforts. The information included is presented in a series of steps to prepare you for effective advocacy results.
Gifted & Creative Services is dedicated to providing services that encompass and nourish the whole gifted person and meets emotional, intellectual, physical and educational needs.
The James T. Webb Scholarship currently extends the opportunity for identified gifted and talented students from minority populations and their parents to participate in the SENG Annual Conference. Students attend the program for children or teens. Parents attend concurrent adult sessions.
In 1981, SENG established guidelines for SENG Model Parent Support Groups. SENG Parent Groups are structured to bring together 10 to 20 interested parents of gifted and talented children to discuss such topics as motivation, discipline, stress management, and peer relationships. The groups meet weekly for a set number of weeks – usually 10 weeks. Visit this web page for links that access lists of local SENG group facilitators across the nation, and information on how to start a group in your community.
In 1999, Bob and Jan Davidson founded the Davidson Institute for Talent Development to support our nation's brightest young people. This national nonprofit, headquartered in Reno, Nev., provides a variety of programs including: Davidson Young Scholars, Davidson Fellows scholarships, the THINK Summer Institute, Educators Guild and The Davidson Academy of Nevada. Additionally, the Davidsons co-authored the book Genius Denied: How to Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds, published by Simon & Schuster in 2004.
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. Educational Options is centered in Minnesota and serves the needs of gifted children in Minnesota, but it is possible to arrange for assessments and consultations anywhere in the country.
This website contains links to numerous articles are relevant to the profoundly intelligent and their parents. Dr. Rimm's Family Achievement Clinic specializes in gifted children who have problems in school as well as counseling on other gifted issues.
The mission of the National Parent Information Network (NPIN) is to provide access to research-based information about the process of parenting, and about family involvement in education. We believe that well-informed families are likely to make good decisions about raising and educating their children.
This organization provides parents of profoundly gifted children support, insight, and a number of useful resources. Parents can also access information on the characteristics of gifted children. TPPG provides both an online and in-person support network.
This article by Barbara Kerr offers sugestions on where and when to discuss the career path. Although parents and teachers may be concerned about academic planning for gifted and talented young people, they often assume that career planning will take care of itself. Unfortunately, evidence is mounting that youthful brilliance in one or more areas does not always translate into adult satisfaction and accomplishment in working life.
This article offers parents helpful and applicable tips on introducing themselves to and communicating effectively with their child's school. A number of advocacy resources are provided.
This article, hosted by the North South Wales Association for Gifted and Talented Children website, provides general advice and suggestions for parents of school-aged children whose children exhibit some/all of the characteristics of academically gifted children. Author, Jane Beattie, outlines nine informative steps parents can follow to better understand the process of raising a gifted child.
This online brochure by Sandra Berger, discusses early steps parents and their gifted children can take to prepare for college and to ensure that the college experience is positive.
This guide, published by The Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing, seeks to help parents determine the best educational options for their child. The characteristics of what constitutes a good school are presented in this report; listed are the qualities of effective administrators, teachers and counselors. There is also an emphasis on good schools meeting the needs of a diverse student body, providing a broad curriculum geared toward students on many levels.
Formerly the Duke Gifted Letter, this quarterly magazine-type newsletter has articles and book/product reviews of general interest to the parents of gifted and highly gifted children. Regular features include product tips, highlights of educational programs, social and emotional needs of gifted children, technology, parents platform, consultant feedback on questions, expert views and opinions, research briefs and relevant book reviews.
FamilyFun, the country's number one family magazine, is about all the great things families can do together. We are the family experts on travel, food, crafts, parties, holidays, games, activities, and products. FamilyFun magazine's Toy of the Year (T.O.Y.) Awards, announced each year in our November issue, has created an industry standard for child-testing products.
This periodical offers information on issues related to gifted children for parents, teachers and administrators. Topics such as teaching strategies, building effective gifted and talented programs and working with learning-disabled gifted children are often covered. Journal articles also offer advice on identifying gifted children, building effective gifted education methods in specific subjects and much more. In addition, some of the nation's most respected gifted education experts share their knowledge in regular columns.
Independent research projects can play an extremely important role in the scientifically talented student’s development. In addition to developing particular skills, such research projects can allow students to become recognized as experts in a particular subject area. It is also worth mentioning that college admissions officials generally recognize the substantial extracurricular effort that independent research requires, and tend to look favorably on students who have successfully completed science fair projects or other similar competitions.
The Journal for the Education of the Gifted (JEG) is committed to the analysis and communication of knowledge and research related to the field of gifted education. JEG is the official publication of The Association for the Gifted.
Parenting for High Potential is the quarterly magazine for parents who want to make a difference in their children's lives, to develop their children's gifts and talents, and to help them develop their potential to the fullest. Each issue includes special features, expert advice columns, software and book reviews, ideas from parents and a pullout children's section.
The family is the basic unit of society, but in a highly organized society like ours, community life is also tremendously important. As your child gets older, your community and society at large will influence your child more strongly and more directly. How can you make this interaction between your child and the outside world as constructive as possible?
Published by the California Association for the Gifted, The Gifted Education Communicator is a practitioner's journal. The primary target audiences are parents and educators of K-12 gifted children. The goal of this publication is is to provide information and strategies so parents and teachers can more easily apply the theory, research, and best practices in the field.
Published by Open Space Communications, this publication is focused on helping the gifted and allowing them to reach their full potential. Subscribers can access both printed issues and online journals, as well as free back issues.
The Center for Talent Development (CTD), housed at Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy, is an accredited learning center and research facility serving gifted students, their families and educators for nearly 30 years. Some of their programs include: the Midwest Talent Search, summer programs for pre-K through grade 12, Saturday enrichment programs for pre-K through grade 9, an Accelerated Weekend Experience (AWE), Gifted Learning Links for K through grade 12, a Civic Education Program for grades 7 through 12, scholarship programs for underrepresented students, and educator and parent programs.
The purpose of the Center is to support and promote all aspects of gifted and talented education, including three summer programs for children and youth. Graduate level programs are offered for teachers in all content and grade levels as well as education and support to parents. There is also a program to earn a Masters degree in Special Education with Gifted and Talented emphasis.
With information on independent schools and programs across the nation, this website can be useful when searching for opportunities for gifted students. Articles on schools from a number of viewpoints are also provided.
This comprehensive print and online catalogue of gifted and talented educational materials includes books, kits, videos, posters, games and software. Great for educators hoping to provide a differentiated curriculum, and homeschoolers or any parents of gifted and talented children.
When it comes to kids and education, one size does not fit all! Discount School Supply offers the most personalized education resource on the Web. Our unique technology matches a child's learning styles, needs, and goals with the best educational products available. Its mission is to help children learn, discover, and grow. We treat every child as an individual who has specific learning needs, goals, and styles.
This networking and information provider (offering a newletter and website) is dedicated to making a difference in the pursuit of educational excellence for children. Gifted Children Monthly offers a wide variety of gifted and talented resources for parents, teachers, students, mentors and other professionals in the GT arena.
The Gifted Kids Network offers classes and social networking for gifted students and their families. Services include: online enrichment classes for students; online discussion groups for parents and families; online social networking for students
professional development workshops for teachers; and, referrals for local resources in Boulder, Colorado.
In this 45-minute video presentation on a VHS tape, Dr. James Webb describes the most common characteristics of gifted children and shows how some of these traits can actually result in underachievement, power struggles and failure to be recognized as bright.
This is a place for parents to find information, activities, and many other resources to help support childrens' education.
The purpose of this company is to serve those who live and work with gifted children. A variety of books, CDs, and audio tapes that discuss giftedness are available. They also provide a journal called Understanding Our Gifted.
OGTOC provides online gifted conferences with guest experts who are nationally and internationally known.
Archives include free access to phenomenal and extremely high quality webinars as a sneek preview and source of greatly needed information.
SuperKids is a website for parents and teachers who want the best in education for their children. SuperKids provides: reviews and ratings of educational software; practical and fun tools for online and offline use; news about important educational issues; and views of visionaries and policymakers.
Time Timer LLC is taking the idea of a simple, visual depiction of elapsed time and turning it into a line of products that helps solve time perception problems. These proven products are so easy to use that even young children and those with learning disabilities can monitor their own timed activities.
This website is amazing! It offers AP quizzes and a lot of different history options. This website fits into many different categories. For educators, parents, students, for fun, etc.
HEROES is committed to promoting the educational, social and emotional development of profoundly gifted students by facilitating the creation of educational resources for the profoundly gifted, as well as informing parents, educators and profoundly gifted students about appropriately challenging educational opportunities.
This website features differentiated activities in all content areas. For students the site offers additional/alternate activities if a classroom activity is too easy or too hard. For parents, there is information about the gifted and how to advocate for your student in the classroom. For teachers, there is information about the gifted, differentiation, and lesson plans.
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.
With over 30 years experience, Dr. James R. Delisle talks about writing Parenting Gifted Kids and shares his perspectives on guiding the gifted.
According to some psychologists and researchers, praising everything children do does not build self-esteem -- eventually the praise becomes meaningless. Instead of continually praising students, teachers should substitute descriptive comments or cite specific improvements in work.
This checklist hosted by the Austega.com webite provides a characteristics checklist for teachers and parents looking for signs of giftedness in young children. Characteristic traits are listed by broad category of giftedness and include general intellectual ability, specific academic aptitude, creative thinking and production, leadership, psychomotor ability and visual and performing arts.
After E. D. Hirsch’s book, Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know catapulted to unexpected, bestseller status in 1988, parents and teachers alike wanted practical guidance in how to ensure that children would acquire the foundation of knowledge, needed to become culturally literate adults. For teachers, the Core Knowledge Sequence was created to provide this guidance, and hundreds of lessons plans can be downloaded for free from this website. The What Your — Grader Needs to Know series, based on the Sequence, was later designed especially for parents.
CYFERnet is designed to be used by anyone who needs comprehensive children, youth, or family information including: educators, researchers, parents, youth agency staff, community members, human services and health care providers, students, policy makers, youth and media.
With more than 2,500 members, the Davidson Institute's Gifted Issues Discussion Forum is a free, public, constantly-growing online forum where parents of gifted students can share their experiences and post information about advocacy, research and other gifted education issues.
This website, CapabilitiesInc.com, offers advice and products for parents and teachers who would like to take a different approach to raising capable young adults.
This web site is an easy-to-use, free, one-stop destination for parents of preschool through grade 12 aged children where parents can search for cutting-edge editorial, useful tools, community features, and over 2,000 reference articles on education and child development from the most respected universities, government agencies, and nonprofits in the U.S.
This website offers articles relating to gifted education, home schooling, twice exceptionalities, college and career planning, and more.
Duke TIP's Educational Opportunity Guide is a comprehensive online directory of educational programs designed to inform students, parents, and educators about the numerous educational opportunities available for gifted students. The site includes detailed information on over 380 programs located throughout the nation and abroad.
ERIC EC gathers and disseminates professional literature, information, and resources on the education and development of individuals of all ages who have disabilities and/or who are gifted.
Through FamilyEducation.com parents are able to find practical guidance, grade-specific information about their children's school experience, strategies to get involved with their children's learning, free email newsletters, and fun and entertaining family activities. FamilyEducation brings together leading organizations from both the public and private sectors to help parents, teachers, schools, and community organizations use online tools and other media resources to positively affect children's education and overall development.
Gifted Monthly has evolved from a monthly newsletter to an online bookstore and information source for parents of gifted children and education professionals. The site sells books related to giftedness and children of high ability, and provides free access to articles and copies of the original Gifted Monthly newsletter.
This website hosts an online community supporting the needs of parents of gifted children. There are elists, a collection of articles, books, links and other information regarding gifted children.
Welcome to GTplace, your resource for information and activities for the gifted and talented. Over the years, I have compiled information that make my job working with the gifted and talented easier. This website helps me organize that information, and gives you access to it. Students, educators, and parents can find challenging activities or contests here along with resources that explain and enhance programming and identification of the talented and gifted.
This article discusses the history of media coverage of extremely gifted children, and provides parents with specific suggestions and guidelines to consider when deciding whether or not to allow press coverage of a profoundly gifted child and his or her accomplishments.
This is a comprehensive website about giftedness, with links to articles, resources, and major national programs for gifted children. A separate section of the website provides resources for families with highly, exceptionally, and profoundly gifted children.
Home Educator's Family Times is the homeschool publication for new or veteran homeschool families. The website offers a variety of homeschooling resources for parents, educators, and other professionals.
This is a great resource for new homeschoolers, gifted and twice exceptional homeschoolers and veteran homeschoolers. Content includes the basics of homeschooling along with actual curriculum ideas and online resources
Homeschool Facts is the brainchild of a consortium of homeschool parents, licensed educators, counselors and researchers. We are passionate about education choice, and especially the parent's right to choose their child's education.
This website provides students, teachers and parents with a number of useful social studies, math, science and language arts activities and resources. Education Place has something for everyone: teachers and parents can access information on state resources, textbook support, and receive newsletters; the kids' section contains many games and fun, educational activities. The site's resources are geared for students in grades K-8 and those who interact with them.
This website offers links to websites and articles regarding various educational issues. There are also resources available regarding gifted students.
This site offers tips for parents, articles on parenting issues and child development topics, a free e-zine and more.
KidsBoston.com is an online tool that has various useful resources for parents. This website even highlights gifted kids under their "Education for fast learners" section.
This website offers articles, resources, and activities for parents of gifted children, including a calendar of activities and resources, links to other websites, discussion forums and books.
This website has a variety of resources for teachers, students and curious adults. Including reading, math, and technology resources and links.
Create, schedule and record your home school activities quicly and easily. My HomeSchoolPlan is flexible, simple took that allows you to spend more time with your kids, not your computer. The heart of MyHomeSchoolPlan is the schedule. Add a one-time activity or create recurring activities (like practicing a musical instrument), add to one student or multiple students (like a field trip). You can also log how much time was spent, and, if an assignment or test, the points.
For residents in Canada this website may be useful for parents when networking with others in the gifted community. Share ideas on message boards, find events and read about testing & assessment and schooling options.
It is important for adults to recognize and support children's strengths. We do this best when we are armed with the most current educational research and philosophies. This site provides you with basic information about gifted education and ways to help your children. Through our blog, you will also have an opportunity to ask questions, voice your opinions, and view the responses of others.
Based on the book, Picky Parent Guide, Choose Your Child’s School with Confidence, this companion website helps parents choose the best learning environment that fits their child and family.
The author's goals include keeping parents informed about the latest research and happenings in the education arena and how these trends impact your children, and generating a productive dialogue among all the adults who play roles in educating children.
Please Stop the Rollercoaster! How Parents of Teenagers Can Smooth Out the Ride is a blog by the author of the book by the same title. In her blog, Sue Blaney covers the most important topics for parents to examine when raising teenagers.
The information on this Web page has been written by Tracy L. Cross, Ph.D. and is excerpted from On the Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Children, 2nd Edition, (2004 Prufrock Press Inc.). He provides key concepts for teaching to the social and emotional needs of gifted students.
The term social thinking encompasses many treatment programs described as "teaching social thinking and related social skills." These strategies share common traits: How their own social minds work - why they react and respond the way they do, The behaviors that make others feel good and bad, How these behaviors are affecting their own emotions, responses to and relationships with others across different social contexts.
Posted on her webiste, Deborah L. Ruf outlines the do's and don'ts for parents dealing with the challenges of raising bright young children.
The beginning of a new school year is a good time to think about what direction you want your child's education to take. Before that first parent-teacher conference, before the first IEP meeting, before the first call from the principal, plan your strategy, assess the situation and your child's abilities, and learn some new tactics for obtaining what your intellectually gifted child needs for a successful school year.
This website has a variety of links for gifted and talented resources.
Sylvia Rimm, Ph.D, presents a practical list of suggestions about how to deal with sibling rivalry and perhaps prevent it altogether. One tip is related to having one child "tutor" another child and how this can lead to greater sibling rivalry.
The state of Maryland has adopted into law and the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)
Board of Education has adopted into its policy the key concepts of the defi nition of gifted and talented
students originally stated in the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act (1988). This guidebook meets that requirement of the state and county policy. It does so with the goal of helping
to increase the number of students realizing their true potential.
This website is all about the journey of one mom who hopes to connect with others on similar journeys in delivering only the best for their gifted children. It is designed to help parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, guardians, and caregivers of gifted students find and connect with each other.
This site provides information about Word Finding for professionals, parents, and learners with word finding difficulties. Topics include definition, characteristics, assessment, intervention, and available course work.
This article answers questions like: Why are IEP goals and objectives so difficult? What makes this IEP process so confusing?
RaisingTheGifted.com provides a resource list for parents of gifted students, including articles, associations, blogs, books, events, institutes and schools.
Zero to Three's mission is to support the healthy development and well-being of infants, toddlers and their families. As a national nonprofit multidisciplinary organization, Zero to Three informs, educates and supports adults who influence the lives of infants and toddlers.
A virtual community for homeschooling parents which gives each member a range of tools to use on the website. These tools include: An event calendar that lets you easily see what's going on near your home, Flexible networking options that allow you to communicate with homeschoolers you know either by adding them to your “friend list” or through groups, similar to yahoogroups, Free classified ads to buy and sell curriculum, We make it easy to list books, websites, and places that help with your homeschooling and share them with your friends or the entire community.
The Quirkles® are 26 imaginary scientists that help children everyday, all over the world, develop a love and appreciation for science. They offer a fresh new way to integrate literacy and science at school, for educational programs, or at home. Vocabulary builders, two related science experiments, and a character education lesson are also included in each of the 26 alphabet-series books. For a complete introduction and to get to know each Quirkle, start with "About The Quirkles" and work your way across the main menu bar above. Have fun exploring and please contact us with any questions you may have!