For Parents of Gifted Children
Creativity, like any other ability, must be noticed and nurtured to bloom. Parents play a large role in recognizing and providing opportunities for creative talent to be expressed. Ways of thinking, personality factors, and physical attributes all influence the development...
Cramond, Bonnie Creativity Volume 6 / Issue 4 / Summer 2006 Talent Development
What is leadership? It involves persuading others to set aside their individual concerns, at least for a time, and pursue a goal that is important to the group. Leadership occurs only when others embrace the leader’s vision and the group’s...
Volume 6 / Issue 3 / Spring 2006 Pfeiffer, Steven I. Talent Development
My son always receives A’s on his spelling tests. My daughter loves to write and tell stories. Are these youth verbally gifted? Possibly. Should their parents nurture their potential talent? Absolutely. Experts in gifted education recommend fostering a child’s interests...
Educational Strategies Fairchild, Lyn Volume 6 / Issue 2 / Winter 2006 Talent Development
Julian C. Stanley, who died on August 12 at the age of 87, established the talent search model when he began the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) at Johns Hopkins University in 1971. He found that grade-level tests...
Volume 6 / Issue 1 / Fall 2005 Stanley, Julian C. Talent Development
Mathematically talented students often show an early interest in and facility with numbers. For example, they may learn to tell time at age two and begin adding and subtracting long before they enter kindergarten. Anecdotes shared by parents about...
Educational Strategies Volume 6 / Issue 1 / Fall 2005 Lupkowski-Shoplik, Ann Talent Development