Parenting for High Potential back issues from September 2005:
Are you a Creative Problem Solver?
Sep 01, 2005; ... The Christopher Columbus Awards program challenges middle school students (grades 6 - 8) to explore opportunities for positive change in their communities. Teams of three or four students and a coach identify a community issue and use the scientific process to solve it. Finalist teams win an ...
Kids say, "Where do I Begin?" Is Biggest Hurdle to Goal Setting for Success
Sep 01, 2005; ... The results of a recent national survey indicate that a majority of youth, ages 8 - 17, believe that having goals is very important to achieving success. However, one-third ot them don't reel adequately prepared to develop a plan to achieve those goals. The survey also identified a number of ...
Life in the High-Potential Lane
Sep 01, 2005; ... We believe chat our readers have many humorous anecdotes that will remind us of the lighter side of living with precocious and high-potential children. Do you have an amusing anecdote? Share it with us by email (send it to don@creativelearning.com). Please include your name, city, and state and ...
LET'S GO ON A GEOCACHING JOURNEY!
Sep 01, 2005; ... Are you an explorer? A person who likes to discover new things. to wander through the world and learn about new places? Do you like to find hidden treasures? Be an investigator? Someone who cnjon a challenge? Have um ever gone on a scavenger hunt and been fascinated with uncovering dues? Well, ...
PHP'S PARENTING FORUM
Sep 01, 2005; ... NAGC provides a Parent Resource Specialist service, whose role involves supporting parents and others who advocate tor appropriate and challenging educational opportunities for high-potential children and youth. Our Parent Resource Specialist. Dr. Robin Schader. has agreed to expand her services ...
In Defense of Uniqueness
Sep 01, 2005; ... In preparing and editing this issue, two words struck me as representing a thread that runs throughout its contents: difference and vigilance. Carol Ann Tomlinson and Bonnie Cramond both highlight the importance and value of the differences that make each person unique in life and learning, and ...
Politics and Children with High Potential
Sep 01, 2005; ... As I begin my presidential term for The National Association for Girted Children, I am exhilarated by the spirit of change that is pervading every aspect of the organization. The Roman philosopher Lucretius explained change as de rerum natura, a dissolving of the past into the present in ways we ...
Pack Rat or Collector?
Sep 01, 2005; ... Have you ever found an unusual postage stamp and wondered what it might be worth? Do you pick up rocks and minerals wherever you go? Do you keep baseball cards in a box to look at with your friends? Then you could be interested in Kids Collecting, a Smithsonian Institution websitc were ...
Differentiation at Home as a Way of Understanding Differentiation at School
Sep 01, 2005; ... An early teaching colleague of mine became a close friend. Over the past couple of decades, I've loved watching her three sons grow into young men. I've also enjoyed watching her pleasure in their differences-and, sometimes, her bafflement in the face of those differences. She's a teacher, so ...
National and State Testing Initiatives: A Call to Arms for Parents of Gifted Youth
Sep 01, 2005; ... Two decades ago the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), released by the U.S. Department of Education, indicated a decrease in students' problem-solving abilities and conceptual understandings but an increase in lower-ordered thinking skills such as the recalling of facts. To ...
Differences As Assets
Sep 01, 2005; ... Stories of Success Because of. Not in Spite of Differences "Dummy!" the students jeered as die tall Black boy entered the room. He lowered his head in shame, resigned to his nickname. But his mother was not. Having only completed a third-grade education, she wanted more for her two sons ....
2005 Holiday Toy List
Sep 01, 2005; ... As I sit ai my computer, wondering how I might best introduce the 2005 Holiday Toy Lia to you. a recurring thought is that no two high-ability children are identical: they are. in truth, often more diverse than alike. No one using this list should expect every high-ability child to respond in ...