The annotated bibliography on Identification of the Gifted contains approximately 60 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents or journal articles published from 1959 to 1975 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC).…

Presented is the conference report and followup of PAB (Parents-Administrators-Board Members), a team of people concerned about a cooperative approach for meeting the challenges of gifted and talented students. The background and history of PAB, the procedures in planning the conferences, a description of the conference format, and suggestions for…

Provided are appendixes from the 1974 annual report of the Leadership Training Institute on the gifted and talented. Included in Section A are a copy of a letter from the project director to consultants and the following tables: table 1--response to student activity questionnaire, table 2--public elementary and secondary school information, table…

Summarized in the report is information obtained at the Illinois Leadership Training Institute which was held for persons concerned with education of gifted and talented children in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The first chapter contains information on the participants and their backgrounds and interests. Chapter II…

A new book by John Dunstan gives evidence that the Soviet Union's special schools for the academically and athletically gifted are not as successful as commonly thought. The emphasis now is on mixed ability schools. (Author/SJL)

Responses of Illinois educators to a survey about vocational education programs for exceptionally gifted and talented students generally emphasized the need for differentiated programs, staff development, and community involvement. (MF)

Provides a detailed description of an experiment involving a particular method of teaching poetry to a class of high ability boys and draws attention to some common educational research procedures and their attendant problems. (DD)

Lists ten suggestions for recruiting staff members for student publications. (GW)

Available from: Love Publishing Company, 6635 East Villanova Place, Denver, Colorado 80222. The case of an academically gifted boy is presented, the term gifted is defined, and methods for identifying and educating gifted and talented students are considered. (SBH)

Haywood Technical Institute's production crafts program has an instruction staff of craftsmen who are trained as teachers and as production craftsmen. Its students are inspired and given the full opportunity needed to become successful studio craftsmen. (Author/NQ)

The effectiveness of using earliest school recollections as a diagnostic device for classifying different types of gifted and talented students with social adjustment problems at school was evaluated. Significant agreement was found between classification on the basis of earliest recollections and classification on the basis of observable behavior…

A Louisiana school district, required to provide public preschool services to academically-gifted three- to five-year-olds, developed an effective and cost-efficient screening and identification procedure using a parent questionnaire, a preschool teacher questionnaire, and a standardized test instrument. (Author/CB)

Four dimensions (Contact, Consciousness, Interest, and Fantasy) of the Creativity Classification System (CCS) have demonstrated high validity in identifying fourth- to sixth-grade students for an enrichment program. An identification procedure for use at the high school level is explained in relation to CCS. (Author/DB)

This paper explores concerns that parents of creative, gifted, and talented children experience in facilitating their children's growth. It discusses stages in parenting, lists traits in which the gifted excel, offers guidelines for identifying giftedness, suggests signs of excessive stress, notes parents' expectations of teachers, and identifies…

An interview with Dr. Donald J. Treffinger, an author and educator involved in gifted education, reveals his views regarding a "better blend" between gifted programing activities and the total school program. Such an approach would include more students in a larger variety of enrichment activities. (CB)