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Placement by achievement
The educational blogosphere has been hopping lately with the resurrected idea that students are best taught with other students at about the same level. That is, that “heterogeneous grouping” with...
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Stanford Engineering Everywhere
Lots of people have heard of MIT Opencourseware, because MIT has not been shy about advertising their 2000 courses. Of course, most of these “open courseware” courses consist of little more than a...
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Build-Your-Own-Blocks extension to Scratch
I’ve been fond of Scratch as a first programming language for children and teenagers (particularly gifted children who may be able to program better than they can type), but have occasionally chafed at...
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Gifted advocacy success stories wanted
Laura Vanderkam, one of the authors of Genius Denied: How to stop wasting our brightest young minds has requested some stories from readers who have successfully worked with teachers and principals to...
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Summer Programs: Listed by Topics of Interest
The Davidson Institute has collected a nice list of summer programs suitable for gifted students: Summer Programs Listed by Topics of Interest. Age and level varies from program to program and they...
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Ability grouping
One of the biggest hot-button issues on mailing lists for parents of gifted children is heterogeneous grouping, which is the grouping of children with different educational needs into the same...
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Do talent searches identify future successful adults?
Geographical regions for talent searches. Image via Wikipedia Many middle-school students participate each year in “talent searches”, taking the high-school SAT or ACT exams to qualify for programs...
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Summer Programs for Gifted Kids
Carol Fertig of Prufrock Press (which bills itself as “The Nation’s Leading Resource for Gifted and Advanced Learners”) has just posted on her blog a list of lists of Summer Programs for Gifted Kids....
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Prepping for kindergarten?
The Santa Cruz Sentinel yesterday had an article about California’s new law that keeps 4 year olds out of kindergarten: Simitian stresses importance of prepping for kindergarten. That’s the sort of...
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The Innovative Learning Conference
My wife (a school librarian) was given a copy of the program for The Innovative Learning Conference, October 20–21, 2011, which teachers at her private school can be subsidized to attend (if they find...
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Debate about how schools treat gifted students
In the NY Times, about a week ago, a debate was started about educating gifted students: Are Top Students Getting Short Shrift? – Room for Debate. The two sides each have very simple positions. On one...
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What is giftedness?
Over the past two weeks, I’ve read two articles talking about gifted children more from the standpoint of defining what giftedness is than what needs to be done for them educationally: From the New...
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CS Summer Camp
On the mailing lists for parents of gifted kids, people often ask about the best computer summer camps. Even more often, they ask for people’s experiences with nationally advertised programs. So far,...
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Flexible ability grouping
About a month ago Charlie Boss wrote an article in The Columbus Dispatch: Students benefiting from new measures, which talked about a school using “flexible ability grouping” successfully. The school...
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Distance learning for gifted kids
Suki Wessling, a local writer who is home-schooling her kids, recently wrote an article about distance-learning oppoturnites for gifted kids: Boutique distance learning offers variety for gifted kids –...
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Advanced Placement for talent development
Since we are in the middle of AP testing for this year, it is timely that Hoagies’ Gifted has just posted Dr. Joyce VanTassel-Baska’s keynote speech from August 2000: The Role of Advanced Placement in...
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National Parenting Gifted Children Week
I just found out that last week was “National Parenting Gifted Children Week“—another one of those designated weeks that no one hears about (like National Folic Acid Awareness Week and National...
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Hard Math for Elementary School
Hard Math for Elementary School by Glenn Ellison: (ISBN 9781489507174) looks like a book I could have used with my son about 8 years ago (too bad it was just published a couple of months ago). The...
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Librarians instead of teachers for gifted students
A couple of weeks ago, Peter Sipe published an article How to challenge voracious young readers, in which he talked about famous authors who were anti-school (Thomas DeQuincey, W. Somerset Maugham,...
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