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Siler, Todd – Understanding Our Gifted, 2001
This article questions whether current practices in gifted education are excluding groups of natural learners who don't fit our vision of giftedness or standards of high ability. It urges gifted education programs to reach out to different learners who live on the outskirts of the circle of academically gifted learners. (CR)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education
Silverman, Linda Kreger, Ed. – Understanding Our Gifted, 1994
Talent searches are discussed in this journal theme issue, with two feature articles and several recurring columns. "Talent Search: A Driving Force in Gifted Education," by Paula Olszewski-Kubilius, defines what a talent search is, how the Talent Search was developed by Dr. Julian Stanley at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, the…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Aptitude, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
Smutny, Joan Franklin – Understanding Our Gifted, 2003
This article presents four strategies for identifying young gifted children: recognize the limits of testing; network with parents; consider new ways of thinking about and observing giftedness, including incorporating different learning styles in teaching; and use portfolios to collect actual samples of children's work. Advantages of portfolio…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Classroom Observation Techniques, Early Childhood Education, Educational Assessment
Sisk, Dorothy – Understanding Our Gifted, 2003
This article discusses the effects on gifted education of standards-based education, inclusive education, statewide assessment, including underrepresented students in gifted programs, and reaching different levels of giftedness in a classroom. It argues that educators of the gifted have become distracted and off-task in meeting the needs of gifted…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Standards, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Direct linkYbarra, Lea – Understanding Our Gifted, 2004
In this article, the author discusses how Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY) seeks and nurtures students with high academic talents in Baltimore. The mission of CTY, since its founding in 1979, has been to identify students with high academic abilities and to provide challenging and innovative programs that are appropriate…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Talent, Talent Development, Academic Ability
Gross, Miraca U. M. – Understanding Our Gifted, 2002
This article discusses teacher misconceptions of gifted students and gifted programs and the effects of a postgraduate teacher education program in Australia called the Certificate of Gifted Education. Results of the program indicate powerful changes in teachers' attitudes and support the need to provide every teacher with training in gifted…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Attitude Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
