Category: Families of gifted children
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Entrepreneurship as a Tool for Gifted Students
Challenging high-ability students in an entrepreneurial context increases gifted students’ potential to impact their communities positively.
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Exit Policy Survey: Balancing Needs, Performance, and Parental Consent
Many readers responded to the Gifted Weekly Exit Policy research review survey. While there is limited academic research on this issue, it is clearly a significant concern within the gifted education community. Recommendations are included from reader responses.
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Differentiation – Various Approaches (Part 2)
Last week we considered the most common methods employed by teachers to support and develop ability in students, as noted in the meta-analysis conducted by Nicholas et al. This week, we consider the next three methods: open-ended, problem-based inquiry; resourcing that goes beyond; and inviting choice.
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Overreliance on IQ Testing Leads to Unsupported Students
Assessments of the gifted should provide objectivity and a data point which can be consistent across a range of abilities. However, in some cases the test used to evaluate the level of ability in students is both inaccurate and limiting.
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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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3 Guidelines for Gifted Gift-giving
Three guidelines and many suggestions for gift-giving to the gifted child.
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