Why do Students Need a Gifted Program
By Gerald Fussell
“Establishing special programming for gifted students, a values issue, is generally viewed in our society as equivalent to providing a tax break for the rich – to be tolerated in a strong economic environment and eliminated during adverse economic conditions.”
(Frank, 2006) 
Why do gifted students need a special program?
9 Common Myths
- Gifted students don’t need help – they’ll do fine on their own.
- Because teachers challenge all students, gifted kids will be fine in the regular classroom.
- Gifted students make everyone else in the class smarter by providing a role model or challenge. Read the rest of this entry »
Gifted Types: The Quick and Easy Version
By Avi Luxenburg
Teachers and parents alike do not always perceive a young person as gifted because the various attributes of giftedness make identification challenging.
Willingly or not, many gifted secondary students are floating under the radar, and so, are not being provided the support, recognition, and challenge that they require to succeed and to use school as a means to their goals. The students themselves are often uncertain about their gifts and just feel different but do not know why. Read the rest of this entry »
Discovering da Vinci
By Tara Colborne
Legend has it that when Leonardo da Vinci was 15 years old, in 1467, his father pulled him aside and asked him to turn his artistic interests to the painting of a family shield. Being a teenager, and being Leonardo da Vinci, he immediately set about collecting animal specimens to study and paint. Da Vinci was a perfectionist and over the length of time it took him to paint, the animals began to decay. By the time he returned the shield to his father, the painting was a terrifying reproduction and included the rotting heads and innards of the beasts he studied.
Imagine you are da Vinci’s parent. Read the rest of this entry »