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Landona, Nancy – Understanding Our Gifted, 2001
This article describes Camp Invention, a summer one-week day camp program for students in grades 2-6 that is designed to develop creativity in gifted students. The curriculum of the camp features hands-on, interactive activities in science, history, math, and the arts. Examples of activities undertaken in 2001 are provided. (Contains one…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Creativity, Curriculum Design, Day Camp Programs
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
Peer reviewedMcCluskey, Ken W.; Baker, Philip A.; McCluskey, Andrea L. A. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2005
This article describes several initiatives in which Creative Problem Solving, in combination with career exploration and mentoring, has been used successfully to identify and develop the talents of "at-risk" populations. During the past decade, the Lost Prizes project helped turn around the lives of talented but troubled high-school…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Problem Solving, Mentors, Career Exploration
Hujun, Li – Chinese Education and Society, 2004
Science-technology circles were powerfully shaken three years ago by the granting of annual subsidies of one hundred thousand yuan to specially invited professors when the "Changjiang Scholars" Program set up by Li Ka-Shing and the Ministry of Education started up. Today, another big uproar has been triggered by Qinghua University's…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Teacher Salaries, Foreign Countries, College Faculty
Schneider, Jean Suchsland – Roeper Review, 2006
This descriptive study investigated two areas: (a) perceived changes in gifted and talented (G/T) programming in Iowa from the time a state mandate was implemented to the time of the study, and (b) perceived effects of the mandate on G/T programming in Iowa. Perceptions of middle-level teachers of gifted and talented students (n = 111) were…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Gifted, Educational Change, Program Implementation
Sankar-DeLeeuw, Naomi – Roeper Review, 2006
Early life experiences can powerfully impact attitudes toward learning and later achievements in education. The chances for optimal development of children with special needs, including the gifted and talented, can be enhanced with identification and intervention at an early age. This paper reports on investigations into the lives of five gifted…
Descriptors: Investigations, Kindergarten, Special Needs Students, Case Studies
Wright, Jan; Burrows, Lisette – Sport, Education and Society, 2006
In this paper we explore how "ability" is currently conceptualised in physical education and with what effects for different groups of young people. We interrogate approaches to theorising ability in physical education that draw on sociological and phenomenological "foundations" together with notions of ability as…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Social Class, Young Adults, Talent Development
Download full textKansas Univ., Lawrence. – 1994
This monograph presents abstracts of 32 papers on the development of general versus specific abilities and their relationship to diversity in gifted and talented students. Sample topics include: creative development at the college level; cultural and linguistic differences in gifted children; Project High Hopes, a program for gifted students with…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Cultural Differences, Early Childhood Education, Educational Environment
Adams, Richard T. – 1992
A study determined whether first year middle school drama students in a talented, magnet program were able to demonstrate more credible characterization in a scene study project after they had been taught some basic directing methods. These methods included blocking (the movements of the actor) and beat breakdowns (the small acting units in a…
Descriptors: Acting, Characterization, Drama, Dramatics
Kranz, Bella – 1994
This pamphlet examines the limitations of traditional identification strategies as they are applied to children from minority and nontraditional cultural backgrounds, and then suggests more effective alternatives. Conventional group tests are criticized for not providing a sufficient basis for addressing students' needs with regard to enrichment.…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Dantonio, Marylou – 1990
Intended for staff development leaders and teacher study groups, this manual is designed for ongoing, interactive inservice. The talent development model explained in the manual encourages the use of a training cycle and the involvement of peer observers and coaches to assure classroom transfer of the questioning processes. Each of the manual's…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Improvement, Models
Tonemah, Stuart A. – 1990
This paper describes the broad goals of an American Indian Teacher Training Program (AITTP), a master's program focusing on teaching gifted and talented Native Americans. The program is administered by American Indian Research and Development, Inc. (AIRD) through Oklahoma City University, with the goal of helping up to 10 American Indian educators…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, American Indian Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted Disadvantaged
Hamblen, Karen A. – 1984
The assumptions of stage theory and major theories of child art are reviewed in order to develop an explanation of artistic expression that allows for variable endpoints and accounts for relationships between children's drawings and adult art. Numerous studies indicate strong similarities among children's early drawings, which suggests that…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Art Education, Art Expression
Karnes, Merle B.; And Others – 1978
This teaching guide suggests practical ideas for encouraging intellectual talent in preschool children. It is part of a series of similar guides, developed by the RAPYHT Project (Retrieval and Acceleration of Promising Young Handicapped and Talented) for educating young gifted/talented handicapped children and gifted children with no handicaps.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Educational Diagnosis, Gifted
SCHREIBER, DANIEL – 1960
THE "DEMONSTRATION GUIDANCE PROJECT" (PROJECT 43) WAS PLANNED IN ORDER TO DISCOVER, IDENTIFY, AND STIMULATE ACADEMICALLY ABLE STUDENTS FROM LESS PRIVILEGED GROUPS. THE TALENT SEARCH BEGAN IN 1956 AND WAS PLANNED TO RUN FOR A 6-YEAR PERIOD. STUDENT PARTICIPANTS WERE FROM NEW YORK CITY'S MANHATTANVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. FORTY-THREE LATER…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Costs, Disadvantaged Youth, Enrichment
