Gifted Child Today articles from November 2000

Gifted Child Today archives from November 2000

FROM THE EDITOR.
November 1, 2000... The Starting Point... It was the beginning of the semester. I faced a new class of undergraduate students who were going to be teaching in a local elementary school. They would be working with small heterogeneous groups of students and...

On the Web.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Role Models Academy of Achievement http://www.achievement.org This web site is known as an interactive museum of living history. Here, students can listen to audio and view video of some of the most eminent people in recent American...

NEWS BRIEFS.
November 1, 2000... Creative Interviewing In a recent Children's Writer (August 2000), Ken Metzler provided the stages to creative interviewing (Metzler, K. Creative Interviewing, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989). In the first stage, the interviewer...

Notable.(educational online services)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) is a nonpartisan effort initiated by Al Gore to gather environmental data that can help to resolve questions about global warming and other world environmental issues. More...

Contests.
November 1, 2000... Invent Your Own Toys In Fresno, CA, kids are gearing up for some real fun! Children from all over the United States are eager to participate in the "Kids Invent Toys" camp. The intense, week-long program, held at more than a dozen places,...

Grants.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The annual Hollingworth Award Competition is sponsored by the National Association for Gifted Children to encourage educational and psychological research studies of potential benefit to gifted and talented children. The award consists of a...

Did you know ...
November 1, 2000... ... 66% of public school teachers use computers for classroom instruction. ... 31% use computers for practice drills. ... 30% have the students use the Internet for research. ... 27% have the students use computers to solve...

Classroom to Community.
November 1, 2000... Student Products as the Link As competition for educational funding increases, the necessity to gain public support for specialized programs within school districts becomes even more important (Karnes & Riley, 1991; Stephens, 1998;...

Gifted Education and the Romance of Passion.
November 1, 2000... Few topics in the field of education are as engaging to parents and educators of gifted youth as the role of passion in learning. We cherish the image of a classroom filled with sparkly eyed children racing to school to pursue projects they...

The Piirto Pyramid of Talent Development.
November 1, 2000... A Conceptual Framework for Talking About Talent "Talent is simply a Step 1 requirement, and many possess it who never amount to anything; talent is impossible to quantify because it only promises but doesn't deliver... what delivers... is...

Juggling Holidays in a New Semester: My Refresher Course in Gifted Education.
November 1, 2000... As I write this column, I know I'm behind schedule. I've already received a friendly reminder from our editor that my contribution to Gifted Child Today is a week overdue. But I really do have a good excuse. I've spent the last two weeks...

USING THE PIIRTO PYRAMID OF TALENT DEVELOPMENT IN THE INCLUSIONARY CLASSROOM.
November 1, 2000... Recently, I forwarded this e-mail from one of my students to Dr. Jane Piirto: Hi Jane, As I mentioned to you, I gave my fifth-grade math group a chance to earn extra credit by collecting articles for a Pyramid of Talent Development...

NEW PRODUCTS.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... My Nature Journal: A Personal Nature Guide for Young People (ISBN 0-9672459-1-5) contains 176 pages of activities for children ages 7-14. The journal encourages young explorers to observe, participate, sketch, count, reflect, and write as they...

Life Strategies of Five WIVES MOMMIES and SCIENTISTS.
November 1, 2000... Introduction Whatever the definition used for giftedness, there should be no question about the gifts of women who achieve the highest levels of success in areas of science. Renzulli (1978) argued that there were three important aspects of...

Philosophy and Gifted Students: "I don't want to do what the class wants to do.".
November 1, 2000... The philosopher Aristotle was not given to witty one-liners, but in the Politics he says that a person who lives alone is "either a beast or a god." Much later in the history of western thought, Thomas Hobbes (in Leviathan) describes the life...