This paper discusses how museums, adventure programs, and discovery activities can become an intrinsically differentiated gifted curriculum for gifted learners. Museums and adventure programs are a forum for meaningful learning activities. The contextual characteristics of effectively designed settings for learning activities can, if the…

The focus of these four issues of a quarterly journal on gifted children is on the total child, gifted girls, asynchrony, and teaching teachers. Each issue also includes columns on parents, the Internet, home schooling, software reviews, and recommended books. Major articles include the following: "A Circle of Friends: The Nature and Nurture of…

This paper discusses anti-intellectualism in the United States from a rural viewpoint, defines "ideology," and questions whether the psychology of gifted education is an ideology. Fear and loathing of intellectuals are identified with the working class, a view that distorts the role of intellectuals. A rural view of anti-intellectualism…

This document contains two articles concerned with doubly exceptional children and gifted education. In "The Doubly Exceptional Child: A Principal's Dilemma," (Carol J. Mills and Linda E. Brody), such children do not fit into the usual categories for sorting children because their gifts and disabilities often mask each other. Suggestions are…

This publication describes 19 projects in Florida school districts supported by the 1998 Collaborative Curriculum Project. Grants were awarded to projects at the classroom or school level to address a significant problem or issue in the education of gifted students, support the redesign of instruction, and support collaboration among students,…

This study investigated teachers' culture-dependent attitudes toward gifted education. A group of 147 Finnish teachers, 214 Hong Kong teachers, and 160 American teachers (preservice teachers, regular classroom teachers, and teachers of gifted students) completed an attitude toward gifted education scale. Researchers used the resulting data to…

This learning packet presents geography units designed for self-directed study use by students in grades K-8. Instructions are given regarding how to use the materials. The five themes of geography provide a framework for analyzing questions about a place, how that place came to be the way it is, and how the place effects the people living there.…

Study samples suggest that the high ability underachiever is characterized by low need for order and higher need to belong to supportive groups; the high ability achiever seems more independent and less attached to his peer group. (Author)

Presents plans and techniques which provide the opportunity for gifted students to acquire individuality, linguistic precision, and discipline through the study of poetry. (RB)

Briefly described is a 6-week cooperative program involving community resources to provide grade 11 and 12 gifted students with opportunities to exercise abilities and make realistic vocational choices. (MC)

Author considers the problems of the gifted student and suggests the methods teachers should use to integrate such children into the school system. (RK)

Programmes for very gifted children at the Technion in Haifa were started in 1969. These were child-centred and an attempt to counteract the negative-gifted-child-syndrome.' (Author/CB)