The booklet is designed to help parents understand how they can help in the development of their gifted children. Included are such topics as the characteristics of giftedness; the four "faces" of gifted adolescents (high achieving studious, social leader, creative intellectual, and rebel); the role of parents; a checklist for assessing the…

This study provides psycho-educational information about Afro-American, Asian American, Anglo-American and Hispanic-American secondary students identified for the California Mentally Gifted Minor program by the non-test method. Five self-report affective instruments given to the 193 tenth grade students participating in the study are described.…

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SUPERIOR STUDENT AND RECOMMENDED PRACTICES FOR WORKING WITH HER ARE DISCUSSED. BECAUSE DIFFERENCE IN INTELLECTUAL ABILITY IS MORE THAN JUST AN INCREASED LEARNING RATE, WORKING WITH A SUPERIOR STUDENT IMPLIES A GREAT DEAL MORE THAN SIMPLY GIVING HER MORE TO DO. MANY SUPERIOR STUDENTS ARE ADVANCED IN SEVERAL WAYS, ABLE TO…

Studied with 93 gifted and 92 average elementary age students were social class and rural/urban differences in "futuring ability," defined as a "future-focused role image." Stanchions of Identity, an instrument developed by the author, requiring students to select a level of agreement with 41 positive statements on occupations,…

Presented is the final report of a project--involving longitudinal casework with some 3,600 gifted and talented children, their parents, teachers, and counselors in 90 Wisconsin communities--to identify and develop programs for gifted and talented students. An initial section outlines such program components as major activities (including…

Presented is a guide for providing counseling and guidance relating to the personal-social, educational, and career-vocational concerns of the gifted student. Information is provided primarily in outline form and covers such areas as personal topics for use by school counselors with gifted students, the reading of personal essays, testing, general…

Program models are described and successful practices are surveyed in training teachers for gifted and talented students. In a section on assumptions and issues, the teacher's role is discussed in terms of classroom innovation and development of attitudes, skills, and abilities in students; and alternatives for teacher training programs are…

Reported are the proceedings from a 1974 conference on programing for gifted children which was sponsored by the Pennsylvania Association for the Study and Education of the Mentally Gifted. Reviewed in a keynote address by J. Gowan are 12 outstanding research studies conducted during the past 25 years regarding identification and education of…

A summer program for teachers of K-12 science is described, with examples of the activities provided. The emphasis was on developing an inquiry-type technique for use with gifted children, and classroom activities using a variety of published programs. "Elementary Science Study,""Introductory Physical Science," and…

The study focuses on the possibility that the tendency of academic underachievers to respond in terms of all inclusive language is indicative of their incapacity to discriminate the uniquely meaningful aspects of their environment. The authors hypothesize that academic achievers would differ significantly from academic underachievers in their…

A state system of about 20 demonstration centers was developed in Illinois to exhibit a variety of model programs for gifted children, ranging from kindergarten to high school. Subjects ranged from foreign language to dance and dramatics. Evaluation indicated low quality in too many centers. The centers performed best on the awareness function,…

To investigate the relationship of a creativity-oriented design curriculum to the creative development of gifted adolescents, an activities guide was developed and used with 27 pupils placed in a special art class which met for one period daily. Creativity tests were given and evaluations of art products were made before and after six months of…

Responses to a questionnaire by 305 of 600 former high school students in the Science Honors Program (SHP) at Columbia University from 1959 to 1961 were analyzed to identify talents and interests during high school that were associated with scientific interests in college, graduate school, and subsequent careers. The program, sponsored by the…

Background papers prepared in conjunction with the national survey of the gifted and talented are presented as appendixes to the study reported in ED 056243. Papers in Appendix A consider the characteristics of the gifted and talented, the question of why we should be concerned with them (are special programs undemocratic, will regular children be…

Numerous problems which teachers may have with gifted students in their classes are listed and several possible solutions are suggested in outline form for each problem. Problems covered are of six types: intellectual problems of individual gifted students (arising from abilities superior to those of their classmates); study habit problems of…