Resources for Working with the Gifted & Talented

Updated March 4, 2002

Cluster Grouping of Gifted Students: How To Provide Full-Time Services on a Part-Time Budget. - A look at strategies to group gifted students within other classes.

 

College Planning for Gifted and Talented Youth - This ERIC Digest provides a long-term college planning strategy for gifted students. Beginning in middle school, the digest suggests a series of concrete steps which can lead to an informed college decision.

Differentiating Curriculum for Gifted Students - This ERIC Digest suggests strategies to provide curriculum differentiation for gifted and talented students. Includes reading and resource suggestions.

Dual Exceptionalitites - Gifted and Disabled - This 1999 ERIC digest presents a collection of strategies to help identify disabled students who may also be gifted. The article includes a series of procedures to help determine whether a student is ADHD, gifted, or both.

The Gifted Resources Home Page contains links to a number of online gifted resources, enrichment programs, talent searches, summer programs, gifted mailing lists, and early acceptance programs. It also contains contact information for gifted associations and government programs. The site serves as a convenient starting point for gifted students, their parents and educators to access gifted resources.

Gifted but Learning Disabled - A Puzzling Paradox - This ERIC Digest discusses the special issues that arise when students are both gifted and learning disabled - a condition that is surprisingly common. It suggests both ways to identify these hard-to-spot situations and strategies to help these students develop appropriate achievement. 

The Gifted Resource Distance Learning Site enables gifted students and their parents or teachers to investigate a variety of opportunities for academic enrichment/advancement. Program descriptions and links are provided for everything from tutorials-by-mail, to on-line courses, to cable/video classes offered by schools and universities across the United States. Programs included in this site are appropriate for middle and high school students.

Infusing Multicultural Content into the Curriculum for Gifted Students

Johns Hopkins University CTY Program - Created by the Institute for the Academic Advancement of Youth at the Johns Hopkins University, this site contains comprehensive information for teachers of gifted students in upper elementary grades through middle school. Highlights include information on a new CD-ROM being developed by Johns Hopkins for gifted math students, summer employment opportunities for elementary and middle school teachers interested in becoming involved in CTY summer programs, the CTY talent search, student application information, ability and achievement testing, recommended publications and resources, and available services for interested schools and teachers.

Mathematics and Gifted Students - Teachers - This ERIC Digest - released 2/01 presents a summary of the issues and strategies involved in teaching mathematically gifted students in a mixed-ability classroom. In addition to research summaries, the digest highlights practices and strategies that have proven successful in these situations.

Miscellaneous Gifted Resources - This is a wonderful resource for parents, teachers, and students, this site contains articles on gifted education, a comprehensive list of schools and programs especially designed for gifted and talented students, a "Funstuff" page for kids that offers games, contests, and challenging brainteasers, and suggested books, journals, and research findings on teaching gifted children.

 

National Research Center for the Gifted and Talented - This center is directed by Dr. Joseph S. Renzulli of the University of Connecticut. This site contains a wealth of current and reliable information on the topic of gifted education and includes lists of abstracts from recent NRC/GT publications, recommended videos, book resources, articles from NRC/GT newsletters, and related educational links. An invaluable source for parents and teachers of gifted children.

 

National Association for Gifted Children - A national resource organization for teachers and parents of gifted children.

 

New Horizons for Learning - This California-based organization maintains an extensive collection of information on learning strategies and ways of working with gifted or specially talented students from any socioeconomic setting. There are articles, bibliographies, and links to examples of innovative strategies.

 

National Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children - Gifted: all grades (professional education) - This page is primarily for parents of gifted children, but it includes lists of traits of the gifted and links to resources which classroom teachers might find helpful. A hot topic is the crossover between traits of the gifted and of ADHD children. There may be some bias to the articles, but a well-informed teacher will want to know what is being written and see another point of view, even though some of it discusses the shortcomings of our current education establishment in meeting some of the needs of the gifted. There is also a gifted child penpal service which could help a lone soul in your classroom.

Supporting Gifted Education Through Advocacy - This ERIC Digest offers a comprehensive, practical strategy for building an advocacy effort to support gifted education. Includes reading and resource notes.

Talent Search Resources - This site tracks regional and national talent searches for gifted students in elementary through secondary grades. The site also provides links to summer enrichment programs for students who qualify by means of standardized testing.