Gifted and Talented

Gifted Education Professional Development Package

http://tinyurl.com/9j7lx
  The Gifted Education Professional Learning Package consists of six modules to scaffold teachers' learning over the course of a professional development programme. The modules contain an overview of current research about particular areas of gifted education. The Package is designed to cover the most essential information every teacher needs to know to address the needs of gifted students. The modules cover all levels of schooling: early childhood (the initial years of schooling), primary (later years of primary schools), and secondary (secondary school). The modules are also ordered according to whether a teacher is in a rural or urban school, teaching in the classroom or involved in school administration, or whether the teacher is working alone or undertaking professional development in a small group or whole school situation

 Curriculum Compacting
http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~nrcgt/sem/semart08.html
 A procedure for modifying curriculum for gifted students.

 GT-Curriculum Compacting
 http://ericec.org/faq/gt-comp.html
 Curriculum compacting and how can it be used to improve teaching and
 learning.

 Providing Curriculum Alternatives
 http://ericec.org/digests/e524.html
 Two strategies that are helpful to teachers in managing alternative
 activities for gifted students are compacting and contracts.

 

Brain Rummager
...word puzzles; quizzes; creative writing; anagrams; crossword puzzles; 

pictures to stimulate creative thinking; the amazing Mandelbrot fractal;

 proverbs and sayings; dragons; the Unpeople behind the dark; curious words and spellings; 

17th century books; The First Folio of Shakespeare; letters of the alphabet; 

potions and spells;  written expression; thinking skills; nonsense verse; and more.

Tournament of Minds
 http://www.tom.edu.au/
 Tournament of Minds is a problem solving program for teams of students
 from both primary and secondary years. They are required to solve
 demanding, open-ended challenges from Maths, Social Science and Language
 disciplines.

 Think Quest
 http://www.thinkquest.org/
 Teams of students and teachers are challenged to build websites on
 educational topics. These websites are published in the popular ThinkQuest
 Library and top-scoring teams win valuable prizes.

 Future Problem Solving Program
 http://www.fpsp.org/
 FPSP features curricular and co-curricular competitive, as well as
 non-competitive, activities in creative problem solving.

 Math League
 http://www.mathleague.com/
 The Math League is dedicated to bringing challenging mathematics materials
 and contests to students.

 Quiz Hub
 http://quizhub.com/quiz/quizhub.cfm
 Fun online interactive learning challenges.

 TalentEd Enrichment Program
 http://scs.une.edu.au/tedvep/default.html
 TEEP aims to provide Internet based learning situations that encourage
 collaboration and investigation in problem solving situations where
 children are encouraged to participate and interact through self directed
 research.


 VSG Enrichment
 http://www.vsg.edu.au/
 The VSG is an online school which specializes in providing enrichment
 courses to complement and extend the regular curriculum.

 Bright Ideas for Gifted Students
 http://www.myschoolonline.com/folder/0,1872,47184-120442-51-33889,00.html
 Fun ideas to challenge your students.

 Double Helix Science Club
 http://www.csiro.au/helix/
 Official science club of CSIRO.

 Absurd Math
 http://www.learningwave.com/abmath/
 Interactive mathematical problem solving game series. The player proceeds
 on missions in a strange world where the ultimate power consists of
 mathematical skill and knowledge.

 Amusement Park Physics
 http://www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/
 Design a roller coaster and find out how physics laws affect amusement
 park ride design.

 Bubble Dome Detective Writing
 http://www.bubbledome.com/bubbledome.asp?Action=Solve_it
 Challenging writing competitions that encourage creative thinking.

 Clever Games for Clever People
 http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~casey931/conway/games.html
 Collection of challenging number games.

 Lessons

 TalenteEd Lesson Plan
 http://scs.une.edu.au/TalentEd/EdSupport/EdSupport.htm
 Links to lesson plans, units of work and enrichment activities.

 GATE Units of Work
 http://www.manhattan.k12.ca.us/staff/pware/
 Special projects such as tessellations, student-designed web sites, and
 web-based lessons for teachers are available for you to use and enjoy.

 Web Resources in Gifted
 http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/trc/cluster.asp?mode=browse&intPathID=7721
 Lesson plans for gifted students.

 Software

 Robocode
 http://robocode.alphaworks.ibm.com/home/home.html
 Build the best. Destroy the rest. In Robocode, you\'ll program a robotic
 battle tank for a fight to the finish.

 Teacher Reference

 Strategies for Teaching Gifted Learners
 http://www.geniusdenied.com/Cybersource/Record.aspx?lib=1&sort=SourceName&scat=902&stype=110&sid=11201&NavID=&sterm=%22Tips+for+Teachers%22
 Strategies for regular classroom teachers to use with gifted students.

 Gifted Education
 http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/gifted/
 Site with information on identification of gifted students and their
 educational and social development needs across all aspects of schooling.

Austega\'s Gifted Resource Centre
 http://www.austega.com/gifted/index.htm
 This site is dedicated to parents and teachers faced with the joy and
 anguish of gifted children. It includes links to significant Australian
 sites.

 NSW Assn for Gifted & Talented Children
 http://www.nswagtc.org.au/
 Information and support for teachers and parents of gifted children.

 Queensland Association for Gifted and Talented Children
 http://www.qagtc.org.au/
 Open association of people who share a common interest in gifted and
 talented children.

 EAGER Gifted Education
 http://www.eddept.wa.edu.au/gifttal/EAGER/index.html
 Lists teaching strategies and research articles on Gifted Education.

 World Council for GAT Education
 http://www.worldgifted.org/
 An exchange of ideas, experiences and people from all over the world
 interested in gifted and talented children.

 Ozgifted
 http://www.nswagtc.org.au/ozgifted/
 The OZ-GIFTED suite of email discussion lists covers any topic of interest
 to parents and teachers of gifted children, emphasizing Australasia.

 Mensa Australia
 http://www.au.mensa.org/
 Aims to identify and foster human intelligence for the benefit of
 humanity, encourage research into the nature, characteristics and uses of
 intelligence, and to provide a stimulating intellectual and social
 environment for its members.

 US National Society for Gifted Children
 http://www.nagc.org/
 Organization of parents, teachers, educators, other professionals and
 community leaders who unite to address the unique needs of children and
 youth with demonstrated gifts and talents.

 Gifted Identification
 http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/identification.htm
 List of articles about identification of Gifted students.

 Curriculum Differentiation
 http://www.austega.com/gifted/provisions/curdifferent.htm
 Explanation of this term that refers to the need to tailor teaching
 environments and practices to create appropriately different learning
 experiences for different students.

 Who Are The Gifted?
 http://www.nagc.org/ParentInfo/index.html
 Information on characteristics of various areas of giftedness.

 Gifted: The Seven Types of Intelligence
 http://www.swopnet.com/ed/TAG/7_Intelligences.html
 Psychologist Howard Gardner identified the following distinct types of
 intelligence. They are listed here with respect to gifted and talented
 children.

 Identifying The Gifted
 http://www.ri.net/gifted_talented/character.html
 Tips on recognising the characteristics of gifted children.

 Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children
 http://www.sengifted.org/articles_counseling/Webb_MisdiagnosisAndDualDiagnosisOfGiftedChildren.shtml
 This article discusses the view that many gifted and talented children and
 adults are being misdiagnosed by psychologists, psychiatrists,
 paediatricians, and other health care professionals.

 Characteristics of Extreme Intelligence
 http://www.ditd.org/Cybersource/Record.aspx?lib=1&sort=SourceName&scat=902&stype=110&sid=11100&sterm=%22Characteristics%22
 Barbara Clark reviews the research on characteristics of children with
 extreme intelligence and identifies 30 characteristics highly gifted
 children commonly possess.

 TIP Learning Theory Database
 http://tip.psychology.org/
 The database contains brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and
 instruction. These theories can also be accessed by learning domains and concepts.