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What was it like when you learned your child was gifted?

Posted by Angie on June 29, 2009 in Gifted Education

If you are like me and most young parents, you really had no clue what being gifted meant. I knew that my son acted and talked differently than most of his preschool friends. I knew his (and my daughter’s) academic needs were above the norm. After they were identified, I had a million questions such [...]

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Researching & sharing about raising gifted daughter’s study

Posted by Angie on May 10, 2009 in Gifted Education

Below are the details of a study that I participated in. If you have a gifted adult daughter, you need to take the time to help out Lea by sharing your experiences with others. (Who doesn’t enjoy talking about their wonderful daughters!) I’m sure there are just a few mothers of gifted daughters out there [...]

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Labeling the Gifted Learner – A Slippery Situation

Posted by Angie on April 24, 2009 in Gifted Education

Is using the word ‘gifted’ the right word for labeling those few individuals that rise to the top? I have been struggling with this question the past few weeks since my visit to the UNESCO headquarters in Paris where they refer to the gifted individual as ‘high potential’ individuals and while doing my own research [...]

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There is a connection between the Underdog and the Gifted

Posted by Angie on April 20, 2009 in Gifted Education

I write when I’m inspired. This morning as I was going through my twitter feeds I found something inspirational. The English Teacher just posted a blog about Susan Boyle. Susan’s story is all over the news and uTube. I think that the fascination with Susan has exploded because we all love when the underdog comes [...]

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WMD’s

Posted by Angie on December 4, 2008 in Gifted Education, Uncategorized

All you educators will enjoy this site and its sense of humor. Weapons of Math Destruction Comics This comic has particular links to the state of gifted education in the US. Imagine, you as an adult, sitting in a workshop where the instructor is slowing down the delivery of information to a snail’s pace so [...]

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National Observance Week for GT (in the Philippines)

Posted by Angie on December 2, 2008 in Gifted Education

The Department of Education in the Philippines celebrates the 2008 National Observance of the week for the gifted and talented. A clip from their website: 1. Every fourth week of November, the nation observes National Week for the Gifted and Talented, an event declared through Presidential Proclamation No. 199 signed on Oct 19, 1999. This [...]

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Same topic, same story, different news sites

Posted by Angie on November 27, 2008 in Gifted Education, Random 'Munchings"

Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Adam and I were fooling around with Wordle at the same time we were listening to the news about the Mumbia attacks in India. We’ve captured an article from each of the following news sites [...]

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Defeated

Posted by Angie on November 16, 2008 in Gifted Education, Random 'Munchings"

Adam (my 25 year old son) has soundly defeated all my attempts to teach him to put his socks in the laundry after taking them off at the end of the day. This has been an ongoing battle between him and I since he was in elementary school. Every day after school, he’d remove his [...]

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Let them soar!

Posted by Angie on October 15, 2008 in Gifted Education

Number Four on the list of Top Ten Things is the topic of my next entry. It reads: Asking regular education teachers to differentiate for the gifted sounds great, but if teachers do not know just how high those “high” kids can get, then the gifted never get needs met. In-service does not always show [...]

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Teaching and accountability

Posted by Angie on October 7, 2008 in Gifted Education, Uncategorized

Now that I’ve posted the top ten things administration should know about gifted teachers, I thought I would write about my personal experience with a few of them. I went to bed thinking about #1 and when I got up this morning my good friend, Nancy (an ESL teacher), had written a paragraph that nails [...]

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