The article, excerpted from an interview with A. Lopez and C. Payne, focuses on research on creativity and giftedness among minority students. Also considered are teaching methods, programs and materials, identification, relationship between native language and creativity, and teacher preparation. (CL)

Daycare workers who had received in-service instruction on the characteristics of creatively gifted preschool children were more effective in successfully identifying preschool children with highly original ideas than were a comparable group of untrained daycare workers. (Author/SBH)

Suggestions are provided on how to identify the preschool gifted-talented-creative (GTC) child, how parents explain away giftedness, how parents can retrospectively understand themselves as GTC, how to deal with problem behavior and the effects of divided parental authority, and how to bring out the best in each child. (JDD)