The booklet is intended to help classroom teachers to provide appropriate education for gifted elementary students. A first section rebuts typical arguments against gifted programing (such as that identification procedures are too costly) and discusses the teacher's role in bringing schools and parents together. The second section considers the…

One of the claimed benefits of Transcendental Meditation is increased creativity, although the literature neither supports nor negates such a claim. Four groups of 35 subjects each were studied over a six-month period and administered a battery of five creativity measures, both before and after the study period. One group of adults was enrolled in…

The report briefly describes 102 educational projects -- 28 of which have to do with gifted/talented or handicapped students -- in the State of Wisconsin, which were awarded federal grants during the fiscal year 1978 under ESEA Title IV-C of Public Law 93-380. The report is divided into four sections: feasibility studies, adopter/adapter projects,…

THE OBJECT OF THIS HANDBOOK, DEVELOPED AS A PART OF A CONCENTRATED SEVEN-WEEKS SUMMER PLANNING STUDY, IS TO PRESENT THE FINDINGS AND SUGGESTIONS OF THE STUDY GROUP FOR A SYSTEMATIC PROGRAM FOR ACADEMICALLY TALENTED STUDENTS. THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE PROJECT ARE PRESENTED, ALONG WITH THE CHARACTERISTICS AND ROLES OF THE FOLLOWING…

Presented is a planning guide for developing vocational education programs for gifted and talented students at the secondary and post-secondary levels. Outlined are the criteria and some suggestions for developing the state's position statement and goal statement. The remainder of the document consists of a matrix for the written plan which is…

One analysis of the creative process includes four steps: preparation; concentrated effort; withdrawal from the problem; insight or illumination; and verification, evaluation, and elaboration. The creative process is described elsewhere in four steps: openess, focusing, discipline, and closure. Research studies of highly creative adults have shown…

The purpose of the conference was to define the role of the School Mathematics Study Group (SMSG) in the preparation of programs and materials for gifted students. The background papers presented at the beginning of the conference and the recommendations made at the conference are presented in this report. Topics covered in the papers include a…

In this document, the Talent Corps in New York City, which was established to orient and train persons from low income communities to become paraprofessionals in the human services and to work toward the establishment of permanent career lines in public and private institutions in the city, provides job descriptions of twenty paraprofessional…

The background, objectives, and design of Secondary School Mathematics Curriculum Improvement Study (SSMCIS) are summarized. Details are given of the content of the text series, "Unified Modern Mathematics," in the areas of algebra, geometry, linear algebra, probability and statistics, analysis (calculus), logic, and computer…

This document presents the results of a survey of high school seniors who took the Scholastic Aptitude Test of the College Entrance Examination Board, and who scored 600 or higher on the Verbal portion of the test (a small number of students were also included in the sample who scored between 500 and 599). Some of the highlights of the survey…

New Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) regulations will help to assure individual student-athletes equal opportunities without discrimination. (DS)

If educators are to provide a quality reading program for the gifted, early identification of giftedness and reading ability is of utmost importance. (Author/SBH)

The author considers the manner in which children develop awareness of varieties of sound, pitch, and rhythm, and provides an outline for use in a class project in musical composition. (IM)

In a study comparing poetry written by 23 Ss and 24 controls, all students in introductory college speech courses, it was found that poetry written by the Ss who spent 15 minutes prior to writing the poetry in nonverbal activities of the encounter group type was rated higher than that of the controls on all three criteria of originality,…

The authors explain recommendations made by the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) regarding federal legislation on gifted and talented students. (SBH)