An Appropriate Education: Challenging and Nurturing a Gifted Child
Maryland teacher Gary Wilson writes about his experiences as the father of a gifted daughter and about his belief that parents, teachers, and policy makers can be doing much more to provide an appropriate education to gifted children.
www.nea.org/teachexperience/gifk030609.html

Counseling Gifted and Talented Students
Nicholas Colangelo, University of Iowa, discusses the social-emotional issues confronting gifted students and provides insights based on a synthesis of research and his own work over the past thirty years. He describes changes in self-concept in the gifted student throughout the school years, vulnerabilities that can hamper cognitive and affective development, family counseling, transition from high school to college and career, and counseling in schools. (Fall 2002)
http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~nrcgt/news/fall02/fall022.html

Distinguishing Myths From Realities
A self-test (with answers) on what the research says about gifted and talented children. Findings are from the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented -- the NRC/GT 1998 Winter Newsletter.
http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~nrcgt/news/winter98/wintr983.html

Gifted Education Press Quarterly
Read Spring 2008 PDF

Gifted Kids: What Smart Parents Need to Know
An article by Andrea Barbalich and Linda Marsa, published on Child.com. Reprinted from the March 2001 issue of Child Magazine.
http://www.child.com/child/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/child/story/data/gifted_kids.xml

The Identification of Children Who Are Gifted
In this article, Mary Ruth Coleman describes the process that helps ensure that students who need gifted education are recognized and matched with appropriate services so that they can thrive in school. ERIC EC Digest #E644 (June 2003).
http://ericec.org/digests/e644.html

Raising "Will Hunting" - 10 Tips for Parenting Gifted and Talented Children
Hilaria Bauer lists the 10 recommendations for parents in both English and Spanish. The article originally appeared in the IDRA Newsletter by the Intercultural Development Research Association.
http://www.idra.org/Newslttr/1998/Jun/Hilaria.htm

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Articles for parents from Gifted Resource Council,
www.giftedresourcouncil.org

Tips for parenting a gifted child:

• Gifted children thrive on team challenges
• Gifted Resource Council Online
• Healthy Self-Esteem
• How can I help my child deal with terror?
• Parents Ask:
  • How can I find the ideal school for my child?
• How can I help my child cope with all the meanness and bullying in middle school?
• How can I help my child’s teacher do the best for my child?
• How can I Tell if my Child is Gifted?
• How can my gifted child make more friends?
• How can we make sure our gifted child gets the most out of her summer?
• How Can We Raise a Child with Healthy Self-esteem?
• How hard should we push our child to excel at school?
• Should I Encourage My Child to Compete?
• Should We Communicate With Our Child?
• What Should I Say When I Don’t Know the Answer?
• Special programs allow gifted children to thrive

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