Category: academic research
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Gifted and Anxious? A Meta-analysis of the research
Are gifted children more anxious than the general populace? Although research has been conducted on this question, the answers are diverse. Three observations included in a recent meta-analysis conducted by researchers in France (Duplenne et al., 2024) provide useful insights for supporting gifted students’ mental health. 1 – Emotional Regulation…
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Rigor Can Navigate, But Let Vigor Drive the Car
It is not about what we teach but, in the end, what the students learn. Two articles from Getting Smart, featured in Chris Unger’s A Revolution in Education newsfeed, suggest an underemphasis on “vigor” in learning diminishes student growth.
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Independence Unleashed: Boosting Creativity and Problem-Solving Skills through Autonomous Learning
A greater emphasis on autonomous learning will lead to greater creativity and problem-solving skills. In some senses, this supports the enrichment approach driven by student choice. Nonetheless, we’ve also found the importance of setting clear goals in learning for students to build confidence and accountability.
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Shifting Giftedness: The Impact of Family Moves on Gifted Identification
In “Gifted and On the Move: The Impact of Losing the Gifted Label for Military Connected Students,” Robyn Hilt introduces subjects who move in and out of gifted programs as part of that family’s mobility. She notes the benefits of the students’ use of their “difference” as a label. Students…
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Goal-Setting: An Antidote to Underachievement
Ownership is the fuel for successful goals, and the New Year or a new marking period is an ideal time to discuss goal-setting with students. Gifted students, 15-50% of whom are underachieving (Morisano & Shore, 2010), can benefit from purposeful consideration of what they want to achieve and how they…
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Motivation Matters for Gifted Growth
How many times have we second-guessed how to motivate and challenge the gifted child? Too much praise is problematic (Glass & Tabatsky, 2014), but we also want to recognize student effort and achievement. For gifted students, the student’s status and self-identification as a “gifted child” and how that impacts their…
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