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EXPO and TAGT Mini-Parent Conference in NW Houston, January 28 2012

Posted by Angie on February 5, 2012 in Blogroll, Gifted Education

Notes from the EXPO and Parent Mini Conference on January 28, 2012 Lone Star College – University Park This conference was presented by the Houston Area Cooperative on the Gifted and Talented, The Southeast Cooperative for Gifted and Talented, Lone Star College – University Park and Education in Action and the Texas Association for the [...]

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Tidbits from the National Association for the Gifted 2011 Conference

Posted by Angie on November 17, 2011 in Education, Gifted Education

Here are a few interesting tidbits from my recent attendance at the National Association for Gifted Children in New Orleans, LA in the form of a Prezi presentation. I took 13 pages of typed notes (along with a multitude of handouts) so I thought I would save you time by highlighting those that I found [...]

 
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It’s Time to Change Age-old Messages

Posted by Angie on June 4, 2011 in Education, Gifted Education

Somewhere in our educational history the message came down that teaching the child with a “gifted” label was easy. It’s not. Teachers have to be fully prepared to move quickly through material, be more flexible, understand and carefully use sarcastic humor, respond to boundary pushing, answer constant questions, allow for discussion of moral injustices, manage [...]

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Problem Solving is not only for Engineers

Posted by Angie on March 26, 2011 in Education, Gifted Education

Much is being said recently about cutbacks in gifted programs and education at large in our area. We should not have the ‘pitiful poor me’ attitude. Statements like “with the current cutbacks” needs to be replaced with “maybe we can use this or that to do the same thing.” We can call it problem-solving. Imagine [...]

 
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“There is no perceived loss.”

Posted by Angie on March 4, 2011 in Gifted Education, giftedhubby

#Giftedhubby and I were watching Independent Len’s Between the Folds together. This film had beautiful and amazing paper creations by individuals from the artistic field, movement, physics, mathematics, and science all together in one show. Afterwards, my husband and I discuss what we just saw. We ask each other questions like: Did we agree with [...]

 
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Are they clueless or do they really know?

Posted by Angie on January 16, 2011 in Education, Gifted Education, Random 'Munchings"

Last night, I watched “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” with my husband. It’s been on my list since this summer when I watched him giggling at the movie as it played on his screen on our return trip from Paris. It’s takes a lot to make him giggle, especially if it’s a kids movie. [...]

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A Poem by Steve Jobs

Posted by Angie on January 2, 2011 in Education, Gifted Education, International Educational Issues

I’m sharing this poem with you from the editor of the TAGT Tempo Magazine. It reminds us to look forward to the wild and crazy ride of our future thanks to those gifted and talented individuals in our world!! Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the [...]

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Creatively Gifted by Giftedhubby

Posted by Angie on December 23, 2010 in Education, Gifted Education, giftedhubby

Hi, I’m giftedhubby. That is, I’m husband to teachagiftedkid and I will claim to be creatively gifted with some confirmation from teachagiftedkid. Much of her interest in gifted came from raising two gifted kids and putting up with the quirks of a gifted hubby. I have volunteered to write a few blogs from my perspective [...]

 
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What’s at Steak (Stake) in Gifted Education: Our beliefs and values

Posted by Angie on November 18, 2010 in Education, Gifted Education

Steak. When you spend some time in Nebraska and Texas, you know what a good steak looks like and tastes like. I and two other gifted specialists, two first grade teachers and a fourth grade teacher sat down at a great steak restaurant in the famous Stockyards after a long day at the Texas Association [...]

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Let’s make it a year of understanding!

Posted by Angie on August 21, 2010 in Gifted Education

I take part in the #gtchat conversations on Twitter as often as I can. Deborah Mersino at Ingeniosus is doing a wonderful job bringing up and orchestrating topics that affect gifted children and their parents worldwide. It was here that I realized that gifted educators and parents of gifted children fight the same social, cultural [...]

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