Gifted & Talented Resources

The gifted and talented resources below include Web sites, organizations and programs, articles, and materials for purchase.

Web Sites

Hoagies' Gifted Education Page
This Web site offers resources, articles, books, and links for educators,  parents, counselors, administrators, and other professionals and for kids and teens.
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org 

Odyssey of the Mind
This creative, team problem-solving competition that has three levels of competition -- local, state, and world -- where teams from around the world get together to compete.
http://www.odysseyofthemind.com/

GT-Cybersource
This site offers a searchable database of resources for gifted students, their parents, and the professionals who serve them. From the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.
http://www.gt-cybersource.org/

Enriched and Innovative Instruction
This site includes information on differentiation, science, mathematics, arts, and other aspects of teaching, from Montgomery County Public Schools (Maryland).
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/enriched/

Organizations & Programs

Center for Talented Youth
This Johns Hopkins University program identifies America's top academic students in grades two through eight and provides challenging educational programs through their tenth grade year.
http://www.cty.jhu.edu/

Talent Identification Program
The Duke University Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP) identifies gifted children and provides resources to nurture the development of these exceptionally bright youngsters. Programs are available for students, families, and educators.
http://www.tip.duke.edu/

The Council for Exceptional Children
The Council is the largest international professional organization specifically dedicated to improving educational outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities, students with disabilities, and/or the gifted.
http://www.cec.sped.org/

National Association of Gifted Children
This nonprofit organization is for parents, teachers, educators, other professionals and community leaders addressing the unique needs of children with demonstrated gifts and talents.  
http://www.nagc.org/ 

Programs for Gifted Students with Learning Disabilities (GT/LD)
This site provides goals of for programs, characteristics of GTLD students, articles and Web sites, best practices, and other useful information, from Montgomery County Public Schools (Maryland).
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/enriched/gtld/

Articles

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 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

Materials for Purchase

Great Potential Press Incorporated
Materials for sale from publisher of gifted publications. Books and materials, based on research and life experience, to guide parents and teachers through the world of giftedness.
http://www.giftedbooks.com

Prufrock Press
Gifted education resources for teaching and parenting gifted children.
http://www.prufrock.com
  
PuzzlersParadise
Challenging and fun puzzles for puzzle enthusiasts of all ages.
http://www.puzzlersparadise.com

BrainBashers
A collection of brain teasers, puzzles, riddles, games and optical illusions.
http://www.brainbashers.com

Puzzles.com
Puzzles to play, puzzle projects, and puzzle links.
http://www.puzzles.com

Updated May 2007.