The Governor's School of North Carolina (West) offers a six-week summer program designed to develop creativity in gifted high school students. (SBH)

Authors provide guidelines for a program utilizing learning stations designed to motivate, stimulate, and guide affective and cognitive education at higher levels of thinking for academically gifted students. This approach to enrichment is defined, and the role of the teacher as facilitator is considered. (SBH)

The article describes the Designed Improvement Program for gifted and talented fourth through twelfth grade students. Sections address three types of enrichment activities based on the J. Renzulli Enrichment Triad Model: general exploratory activities, group training activities, and individual or small group investigation of real problems. (SBH)

The article offers guidelines for organizing a Quiz Bowl for middle school gifted students. Figures are included on study and quiz questions, a sample elimination and tournament schedule, and rules and regulations. (SB)

A unit on "greeness" for young gifted children emphasized language development through encouragement of vocabulary and helped children accommodate their uneven development. (CL)

The article describes a gifted child identified by the study for Mathematically Precocious Youth who graduated from college at 17 and received his PhD at 22. Suggestions are offered regarding acceleration, and the need for individualized educational acceleration is stressed. (CL)

A consulting teacher for gifted students considers ways in which sophomores describe their reactions to being gifted. Students express a variety of emotions including self-assurance, astonishment, loneliness, and unworthiness. (CL)

A television show, "Academic Challenge Bowl," is an important part of the Gifted and Talented Education program in Guam. The show provides a forum for displaying talents of secondary level gifted students to the community and provides all students with positive role models. (CL)

A physics professor and father of three gifted children started a summer enrichment math program featuring microcomputers. Computer Related Enriched and Technologically Inspired Viable Education (CREATIVE) was so successful that it was taught to neighboring teachers and expanded to other subjects and age groups. (CL)

A school superintendent describes the process by which a school district investigated, planned, and implemented with local funds a special program for gifted students, grades K through six. Decisions regarding program organization, staff selection, inservice training, and curriculum development for the Murfreesboro Exploration Responsibility…

Two profiles of underachievement are described: the Peter Pan Syndrome, characterized by irresponsibility, anxiety, loneliness, sex role conflict, and narcissism, and the scapegoating phenomenon, in which children acquire negative self-images from victimization experiences. Prognoses and recommendations for each are offered. (Author/CL)

The parent of an exceptionally gifted child describes her frustrations in trying to secure appropriate education for her son. She describes obstacles, including the age/grade lockstep system and rampant boredom. (CL)

The article describes replies to a questionnaire by recipients of the MacArthur Fellows Program, an award given to individuals with uncommon abilities across a wide spectrum of creative pursuits. Replies touch on school and family backgrounds, acceleration, importance of grades, recognition of achievement, extracurricular activities, and…

A beginning teacher of intermediate gifted students describes her experiences with a mentorship program involving seven preservice teacher trainees. Both students and mentors responded positively to the approach. (CL)

The article describes the development of one-day workshops in careers in science and math for motivated and gifted adolescents, which are presented yearly by Maryland Science Center, Maryland Academy of Sciences. (MC)