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Describing the Status of Programs for the Gifted: A Call for Action Carolyn M. Callahan1, Tonya R. M Using three leveled surveys of school district personnel (elementary, middle, and high school), we collected data on the current status of practices and procedures in gifted education across the nation.	The gifted child's rocky path to adulthood... and how you can help The gifted child's rocky path to adulthood... and how you can help. Dr. Gail Post July 27, 2023 The transition to adulthood is complicated for most of us. But gifted or twice-exceptional children bring additional challenges to the table that create some unexpected difficulties.	Contested Knowledge: A Critical Review of the Concept of Differentiation in Teaching and Learning 20 This paper suggests that, for differentiation to be successful, teachers should make accommodation for learners’ varied levels, needs and backgrounds. Moreover, this paper highlights the need for more research-led strategies aimed at closing the attainment gap among learners, particularly where differentiation fails to challenge existing learning paradigms.
Do programs for advanced learners work? Jonathan Plucker 6.24.2020 Advanced learning programs are effective, and we have reams of research to support that conclusion. Do we have high-quality, gold-standard, replicated research supporting every possible intervention? Of course not. Show me a field that does. For example, we’ve spent billions to study how to help students learn to read, yet we still have a very wide range of opinions on how to do one of the most foundational tasks in all of education.	Giftedness and gifted education: A systematic literature review Giftedness and gifted education: A systematic literature review SYSTEMATIC REVIEW article Front. Educ., 11 January 2023 Sec. Special Educational Needs Volume 7 - 2022 \| https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.1073007	What are identified research-based instructional best practices (pedagogical and curricular methods, Literature Review – The Million Dollar Question! What are identified research-based instructional best practices (pedagogical and curricular methods, differentiation techniques, ability grouping practices, personalized learning solutions) to ensure advanced learners are challenged, engaged in learning, and achieving strong academic growth? Sakhavat Mammodov, Ph.D. Nancy B. Hertzog, Ph.D. University of Washington The Halbert and Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars October, 2017
The evidence base for advanced learning programs Jonathan A. Plucker and Carolyn M. Callahan Novem The evidence base for advanced learning programs Jonathan A. Plucker and Carolyn M. Callahan November 23, 2020 Research shows that talent development and gifted education are effective, but more research is needed into how well they work for specific populations of students.	What One Hundred Years of Research Says About the Effects of Ability Grouping and Acceleration on K– What One Hundred Years of Research Says About the Effects of Ability Grouping and Acceleration on K–12 Students’ Academic Achievement: Findings of Two Second-Order Meta-Analyses Saiying Steenbergen-Hu Northwestern University Matthew C. Makel Duke University Paula Olszewski-Kubilius Northwestern University Review of Educational Research December 2016, Vol. 86, No. 4, pp. 849 –899	Grappling With the Effects of Attachment A Gifted model for DE image Although the consequences of insecure attachment may well have an impact on various aspects of their lives, including on their level of achievement, there is a dearth of research on the connection between giftedness and attachment... More recently, an article raised the possibility that these problems may instead stem from adverse early social and emotional environments, which can be assessed through attachment patterns.
Academic Acceleration in Gifted Youth and Fruitless Concerns Regarding Psychological Well-Being: A 3 Academic Acceleration in Gifted Youth and Fruitless Concerns Regarding Psychological Well-Being: A 35-Year Longitudinal Study Brian O. Bernstein, David Lubinski, and Camilla P. Benbow Vanderbilt University Academic acceleration of intellectually precocious youth is believed to harm overall psychological well-being even though short-term studies do not support this belief. Here we examine the long-term effects.	Science Direct Consequences of Risk Factors in the Development of Gifted Children	Annals of Cognitive Science: How Can We Better Understand, Identify, and Support Highly Gifted and P How Can We Better Understand, Identify, and Support Highly Gifted and Profoundly Gifted Students? A Literature Review of the Psychological Development of Highly- Profoundly Gifted Individuals and Overexcitabilities. Vol 4, Issue 1. pp 143-165
The future of intelligence research and gifted education The future of intelligence research and gifted education Johnathan Wai and Frank C.Worrell Intelligence Volume 87, July–August 2021, 101546	Genius-Material-logo_edited On a summer day in 1968, professor Julian Stanley met a brilliant but bored12-year-old named Joseph Bates. The Baltimore student was so far ahead of his classmates in mathematics that his parents had arranged for him to take a computer-science course at Johns Hopkins University, where Stanley taught. Even that wasn’t enough.	School from Home In the future, when we look back at these years, we will see that our lives are divided as before and after Corona. The novel coronavirus pandemic is a turning point. Perhaps the most important lesson we are learning is that we are a part of a bigger picture: the impacts of the pandemic are being felt throughout the world, despite the differences among nations and geographies. We are actively working on setting up home offices, home schools, and spending more time with our households.
What Does Smart Even Mean? Recently I’ve become a bit obsessed with the word “smart” in schools. And I think we have a problem. I don’t know when it happens, but students learn that some kids at school are “smart.” Everyone knows who the “smart” kids are. Survey your students and they’d probably name the same few kids. “Smart” is extremely common praise at school.	6 Outrageous Myths about Gifted Children It seems like a scene from The Twilight Zone. But for gifted children and their families, it’s an all too common occurrence. Like the students I encountered when I taught Honors 9, gifted children are subject to a variety of myths with catastrophic consequences. It’s up to us – their parents and their educators – to advocate for the truth.	Got a Reluctant Gifted Learner? Got a reluctant gifted learner? Gifted and high achieving aren't always the same thing.
Asynchronous Development Asynchronous development is the hallmark of giftedness and in a very real sense, as gifted children mature they “grow into” their intellect and become more balanced, more normal. The more extreme the intellectual advancement is; the more extreme is the asynchrony.	Where can I find a friend? Where can I find a friend? How asynchronous development affects relationships	Stuck in Another Dimension Stuck in Another Dimension: The Exceptionally Gifted Child in School By Stephanie S. Tolan
8th Graders taking AP Calc? The Washington Post reports a success story titled, Why are So Many 8th Graders taking AP Calculus at this School District?	Are Gifted Teens at Greater Risk? Social support can be very effective in reducing the risk of drug abuse or alcoholism. No matter how intelligent these kids are, they still need moral and social guidance to fully develop confidence, self-esteem, and positive values.	A Nation Deceived A Nation Deceived highlights disparities between the research on acceleration and the educational beliefs and practices that often run contrary to the research.
The Power of a Tribe In-Sync: The Power of a Tribe-A Perspective on Giftedness	Don't Fall Into the Calculus Trap Don't Fall into the Calculus Trap	Is Everyone Gifted? Michael Clay Thompson answers: Is Everyone Gifted?
Highly gifted children and peers Research on social adjustment and development of highly gifted children suggests that the more highly gifted the child, the more likely there will be less than optimal social and emotional adjustment (Butks, Jensen & Terman, 1930; Gallagher, 1958; Gross, 1993; Hollingworth, 1931; Janos & Robinson, 1985). Gross (1993) found that the majority of these children (over IQ 160) tended to internalize problems.	Social Development in the Gifted Linda Silverman discusses Socialization vs. Social Development in Gifted. Socialization means adapting to the needs of the group, whereas social development indicates positive self-concept and concern for the welfare of others. The former may result in alienation from one's inner self, while the latter leads to self-actualization.	Tiger Mom Misconceptions Tiger Mom Misconceptions at Profoundly Gifted Parenting
Set up to Fail? Why Getting 100% on Everything is Setting Up Gifted Students to Fail	The Underachievement of Gifted The underachievement of gifted students: What do we know and where do we go?	Gifted Kids Need Attention, too We would like to propose an alternative solution: promoting a better understanding of what gifted means for all educators. Gifted students need and deserve a challenging education that helps them rise to their potential, just like all students.
The "Me" Behind the Mask The "Me" Behind the Mask: Intellectually Gifted Students and the Search for Identity	Strengths Based TR Program Research is quite clear that developing abilities related to experiencing positive emotion, as well as knowing, using, and cultivating one’s individual and environmental strengths and resources, are directly linked to in-creased well-being (Fredrickson & Joiner, 2002; Linley, 2008; Linley & Biswas-Die-ner, 2010; Lyubomirsky, 2008; Seligman, 2002, 2011; Wood, Linley, Maltby, Kash-dan, & Hurling, 2011)

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Describing the Status of Programs for the Gifted: A Call for Action Carolyn M. Callahan1, Tonya R. M

Using three leveled surveys of school district personnel (elementary, middle, and high school), we collected data on the current status of practices and procedures in gifted education across the nation.

The gifted child's rocky path to adulthood... and how you can help

The gifted child's rocky path to adulthood... and how you can help. Dr. Gail Post July 27, 2023 The transition to adulthood is complicated for most of us. But gifted or twice-exceptional children bring additional challenges to the table that create some unexpected difficulties.

Contested Knowledge: A Critical Review of the Concept of Differentiation in Teaching and Learning 20

Do programs for advanced learners work? Jonathan Plucker 6.24.2020

Giftedness and gifted education: A systematic literature review

Giftedness and gifted education: A systematic literature review SYSTEMATIC REVIEW article Front. Educ., 11 January 2023 Sec. Special Educational Needs Volume 7 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.1073007

What are identified research-based instructional best practices (pedagogical and curricular methods,

The evidence base for advanced learning programs Jonathan A. Plucker and Carolyn M. Callahan Novem

The evidence base for advanced learning programs Jonathan A. Plucker and Carolyn M. Callahan November 23, 2020 Research shows that talent development and gifted education are effective, but more research is needed into how well they work for specific populations of students.

What One Hundred Years of Research Says About the Effects of Ability Grouping and Acceleration on K–

Grappling With the Effects of Attachment A Gifted model for DE image

Academic Acceleration in Gifted Youth and Fruitless Concerns Regarding Psychological Well-Being: A 3

Science Direct

Consequences of Risk Factors in the Development of Gifted Children

Annals of Cognitive Science: How Can We Better Understand, Identify, and Support Highly Gifted and P

How Can We Better Understand, Identify, and Support Highly Gifted and Profoundly Gifted Students? A Literature Review of the Psychological Development of Highly- Profoundly Gifted Individuals and Overexcitabilities. Vol 4, Issue 1. pp 143-165

The future of intelligence research and gifted education

The future of intelligence research and gifted education Johnathan Wai and Frank C.Worrell Intelligence Volume 87, July–August 2021, 101546

Genius-Material-logo_edited

School from Home

What Does Smart Even Mean?

6 Outrageous Myths about Gifted Children

Got a Reluctant Gifted Learner?

Got a reluctant gifted learner? Gifted and high achieving aren't always the same thing.

Asynchronous Development

Asynchronous development is the hallmark of giftedness and in a very real sense, as gifted children mature they “grow into” their intellect and become more balanced, more normal. The more extreme the intellectual advancement is; the more extreme is the asynchrony.

Where can I find a friend?

Where can I find a friend? How asynchronous development affects relationships

Stuck in Another Dimension

Stuck in Another Dimension: The Exceptionally Gifted Child in School By Stephanie S. Tolan

8th Graders taking AP Calc?

The Washington Post reports a success story titled, Why are So Many 8th Graders taking AP Calculus at this School District?

Are Gifted Teens at Greater Risk?

Social support can be very effective in reducing the risk of drug abuse or alcoholism. No matter how intelligent these kids are, they still need moral and social guidance to fully develop confidence, self-esteem, and positive values.

A Nation Deceived

A Nation Deceived highlights disparities between the research on acceleration and the educational beliefs and practices that often run contrary to the research.

The Power of a Tribe

In-Sync: The Power of a Tribe-A Perspective on Giftedness

Don't Fall Into the Calculus Trap

Don't Fall into the Calculus Trap

Is Everyone Gifted?

Michael Clay Thompson answers: Is Everyone Gifted?

Highly gifted children and peers

Social Development in the Gifted

Tiger Mom Misconceptions

Tiger Mom Misconceptions at Profoundly Gifted Parenting

Set up to Fail?

Why Getting 100% on Everything is Setting Up Gifted Students to Fail

The Underachievement of Gifted

The underachievement of gifted students: What do we know and where do we go?

Gifted Kids Need Attention, too

We would like to propose an alternative solution: promoting a better understanding of what gifted means for all educators. Gifted students need and deserve a challenging education that helps them rise to their potential, just like all students.

The "Me" Behind the Mask

The "Me" Behind the Mask: Intellectually Gifted Students and the Search for Identity

Strengths Based TR Program

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