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Educational Options: Homeschooling

• Developmental: Twice Exceptional

  Writing Transcripts - excerpt from "Forging Paths: Beyond Traditional Schooling"

  This excerpt from "Forging Paths: Beyond Traditional Schooling", by Wes Beach, takes a look at a number of examples of high school transcripts.

• Educational Options: Acceleration

  Educational trajectories

  This article by Julian Stanley, Alexander Plotinck and Michele Cargain offers insights into radical acceleration. Two radically acclerated students (Plotnik and Cargain) provide insight on their educational experiences. The text comes from a conference address.

• Educational Options: Early College

  Exclusive Interview with Jon Reider - College Admissions Expert

  Davidson Family Consultants compiled notes from a Q & A session with Jon Reider of San Francisco University High School. Some examples of the discussed topics are "Do you have any advice for homeschooling students or parents?", "What do colleges look for?", and "How might your suggest selecting a college or university?"

• Educational Options: Educational Planning

  Choosing the right school for your gifted child

  Parents today have more options than they once did: traditional public schools, magnet and charter schools, private schools, and homeschooling. There is little compelling evidence that children learn more in any one type of school. So choosing the right school requires asking the right questions.

• Educational Options: Homeschooling

  At Home in Maine: Gifted Children and Homeschooling

  This article by Kathryn Kearney features interviews with two families homeschooling extremely gifted children. The article explores the families' reasons for making this choice. The discussion also covers day-to-day practices and strategies employed by the families.

  Homeschooling Curriculum for the Gifted Child

  Written by Sarah Boone, this article provides an overview of appropriate materials for homeschooling, as well as the most important factors to consider when choosing curriculum.

  Homeschooling Gifted Students: An Introductory Guide for Parents

  This article provides a wealth of information on homeschooling for parents unfamiliar with the topic.

  Homeschooling tips

  This article provides general information and advice on homeschooling.

  Homeschooling: An accidental journey

  This article by Muriel Knope is a personal perspective on homeschooling. The mother who wrote it discusses her experience with trying to advocate for her child in the public school system. She also talks about her decision to pull him out of the system and educate him at home where his educational materials would be a challenge and of interest to him.

  In a class by themselves

  This article by Christine Foster describes Stanford's perspective on admitting homeschooled students to their University. In addition, it highlights the pre-college experiences of several homeschooled students and discusses their transition to Stanford. Stanford University admissions office is becoming increasingly interested in homeschool students. Why? Because they have "intellectual vitality."

• Educational Options: Tips for Teachers

  Educational Options for Gifted Learners

  This 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.

• Parenting: Parenting Strategies

  Gifted children and homeschooling: An annotated bibliography

  This article by Kathi Kearney is a bibliography and resource list representing much of the written record in this century about gifted children and homeschooling. A majority of the readings discuss issues of exceptionally and profoundly gifted children who are homeschooling. The authors come from a very wide variety of educational, religious, and philosophical perspectives.

  Wunderkinds

  This article by Roberta Staley describes some of the situations faced by profoundly gifted young people and their families. Staley relates many interesting anecdotes and commentaries. The article advocates for increased recognition of the importance and value of these gifted young people.

• Parenting: Tips for Parents

  Tips for Parents: College Admissions for the Unconventional Student - Looking at both Brand-Name Colleges and Beyond

  This Tips for Parents article is from two seminars hosted by Dr. Jon Reider. He provides advice for parents of unconventional students looking at college entrance.

  Tips for Parents: Creative Homeschooling Solutions

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Lisa Rivero, who explores some of the issues that parents face when homeschooling and provides a number of options for them.

  Tips for Parents: Executive Functioning at Home and School

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Aimee Yermish. Gifted students kids often develop asynchronously; some aspects of development seem to lag behind others. Yermish discusses the frustrations of these struggles.

  Tips for Parents: From School to Homeschool at Three Stages

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Suki Wessling, who addresses many of the concerns parents often have about transitioning their students from school to homeschool.

  Tips for Parents: Getting Started in Homeschooling

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Lisa Rivero, who provides a number of useful tips parents can use when getting their children started in homeschooling.

  Tips for Parents: Homeschooling Moms

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Nadia Webb, who provides homeschooling moms advice by addressing some of the challenges homeschooling parents go through with their children. The article also suggests ways for mothers to make time for themselves through private reflection and socializing.

  Tips for Parents: Homeschooling Twice-Exceptional Children

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Meredith Warshaw, who discusses how homeschooling is often a good option for twice exceptional children because it allows for different levels of individual subjects to be taught. It also allows one to focus on the child in the ways that work best for that particular student.

  Tips for Parents: Nurturing Math Talent While Homeschooling Gifted Children

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Julia Brodsky. She discusses homeschooling from a mathematics perspective.

  Tips for Parents: Taking Control of Your Child's Education

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Wes Beach. He paints the portraits of a number of gifted students who were suffering in their school experiences, as well as the steps their parents took to overcome these issues.

  Tips for Parents: The Gifted Brain & Learning: At Home and at School

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Barbara Clark, Ed.D., who provides ideas based on findings from neuroscience studies that can help parents understand and nurture children whose behaviors and needs are significantly beyond those usually found with children in their age range.

  Tips for Parents: The Real World of Gifted Teens

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen and covers many issues that gifted teens face in school, in their social lives and at home. Strategies for helping teens through these difficult times are suggested.

• Support Materials: Book Reviews

  Creative Home Schooling: A Resource Guide for Smart Families

  BOOK REVIEW (Linda Neumann, 2e Newsletter) - This article is a book review of Creative Home Schooling: A Resource Guide for Smart Families by Lisa Rivero and published by Great Potential Press.

  Forging Paths: Beyond Traditional Schooling

  BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This book takes a look at the stories of nine young people who took varying, nontraditional educational paths and succeeded in their chosen endeavors and vocations.

• Talent Development: Strategies & Tools

  Issues in educating exceptionally gifted students

  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.