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Canadian Schools Gifted Programs

Link to Gifted Programs in All Canadian Provincial School Boards

Other Gifted Programs

Africa - Considerations in Education

Europe - 21 Countries

USA - All State Programs (see map on site)
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Gifted Education Courses Available to Educators

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) Gifted Course (.5 credit, for teachers in initial training)

University of Calgary Gifted Education Credit Course (online or on campus)

Link to All Canadian Colleges and Universities (check for programs near you)

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Ontario Ministry of Education
Documents Related to Giftedness

Elementary School Curriculum (all subjects)
Secondary School Curriculum (all subjects)

Cooperative Education Handbook (full details of co-op work experience placements in business and industry)

Education for All: The Report of the Expert Panel on Literacy and Numeracy Instruction for Students with Special Education Needs, Kindergarten to Gr. 6. Brief mention of needs of gifted children.

Exemplars (Subject by subject, show teachers what to look for when grading student work, have samples of actual student work at four levels of achievement with comments explaining why the particular achievement level was assigned)

Forms and Formats for Gifted Program Teachers (-these are not Canadian but can serve as templates - letters to send home, plans, notices, invitations, reports, evaluations, etc.)

Individual Education Plans (introduction, full explanations and downloadable forms)

Rubrics Resources and Rubrics Generator (performance tasks and scoring scales, step-by-step instructions on how to build rubrics, sample templates, easy forms to fill in)

Special Education, A Guide for Educators - complete Ontario Ministry of Education document (252 pages) PDF Version

Transitional Planning: A Resource Guide - transition from school to work, further education, and community living for exceptional students.
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Books and Websites re Giftedness

English:

Accent on Essential Life Skills by Otto Schmidt. This book is a manual of 48 skills found in 7 skills areas. A holistic approach is used to empower people. Thinking skills, self-development skills and creativity are highlighted. Skills training workshops are available for all ages. See details at: Accent on Skills Consulting

Annemarie Roeper : Selected Writings and Speeches by Annemarie Roeper. Written by the founder of a Michigan school for the gifted, understand the emotional and social development of gifted students.

Barefoot Irreverence: A Guide to Critical Issues in Gifted Education by Delisle, James R., Waco, TX: Prufrock Press, 2002. He took a year’s sabbatical from his university teaching to return to a fourth-grade classroom. His experiences with real kids have led him to write about the needs of gifted children.

Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days by Manes, S. (1987). New York: Bantam/Skylark Books. A student decides that he wants to be perfect and finds a book on the topic.

Becoming a Master Student (7th ed.) by Ellis, D. (1994). Boston: Houghton-Mifflin. Written primarily for college students, this book provides dynamic ways of teaching study skills, time-management, and goal-setting. Students are encouraged to try innovative approaches to academic and life management skills. Available from Houghton-Mifflin Co., Wayside Road, Burlington, MA 01803.

Being Smart about Gifted Children: A Guidebook for Parents and Educators by Joanne Foster and Dona Matthews.. (Great Potential press, 2005) This is a Canadian book by Joanne Foster from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Canada and Dona Matthews, Director of the Centre for Gifted Education, City University of New York. It is recommended by the Chapters/Indigo Trusted Advisor Program and won the 2005 Glyph Award for "Best Book in Education". Details at: Being Smart

Bringing Out the Best: A Resource Guide for Parents of Young Gifted Children by Jacqulyn Saunders with Pamela Espelund. Free Spirit Publishing. A highly practical book. Gives suggestions for enriching home learning plus advice on choosing preschools.

Character Building and Stories that Teach Values

Character Education: Resources, Materials, Lesson Plans

College Planning for Gifted Students by Sandra L. Berger. The Council for Exceptional Children. A book that takes you from choosing middle-school courses to the college-application process. Recently updated, it also includes data on gifted-teen summer programs and state gifted associations.

College Planning and Success Stories

College Planning for Gifted Students with Disabilities

College Planning for Gifted and Talented Youth

Counseling the Gifted and Talented by Silverman, Linda K., Denver, CO: Love Publishing, 1993. Directed at school counselors, explains emotional aspects of giftedness, can help parents understand the intensity and sensitivity of gifted individuals.

Creative Home Schooling for Gifted Children: A Resource Guide by Rivero, Lisa, Scottsdale, AZ: Great Potential Press, 2002. Advice for parents who homeschool gifted children, overview of the characteristics of the gifted, extensive lists of resources.

Creativity: Where the Divine and the Human Meet by Matthew Fox. The most spiritually powerful act a person can undertake is to create. It is the most elemental, innermost and deeply spiritual aspect of our beings.(Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam Publishers)

Developing Math Talent: A Guide for Educating Gifted and Advanced Learners in Math by Susan Assouline and Ann Lupkowski-Shoplik, 2005. 387 pp., ISBN 1-59363-159-6, Prufrock Press, www.prufrock.com. This comprehensive guide for parents and educators who provide appropriate opportunities for mathematically talented youth. The chapters include information about parent advocacy, a guide to educational assessment used for identification and programming, a comprehensive introduction to a model for educating mathematically talented youth, a review of curricula and materials, and characteristics of good instruction for the mathematically talented student.

The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt. Full text of this ebook is available for free download.

The Drama of the Gifted Child : The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller, Ruth Ward (Translator) Explains why successful children and adults are plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation--and how to break the cycle.

Dreamers, Discoverers and Dynamos : How to Help the Child Who Is Bright, Bored and Having Problems in School by Lucy Jo Palladino (Paperback - January 1999) Millions of children with dazzling intelligence think divergently--overflowing with many ideas--while schools, organized activities, and daily life reward convergent thinking, which focuses on one idea at a time.

Dreams and Drummers by Smith, D. (1978). New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Publishers. The story of a perfectionist who learns that we cannot always be Number One at everything.

The Encouragement Book by Dinkmeyer, D. and Losoncy, L. (1980). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Provides a plan, strategies, hints, and tips for helping discouraged students.

Genius Denied by Jan and Bob Davidson. How to stop wasting our brightest young minds.

The Gifted Adult: A Revolutionary Guide for Liberating Everyday Genius by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen, PsyD. Ballentine Books. You didn't think you stopped being gifted when you grew up, did you? Insightful writing examines issues that gifted adults may face if they don't successfully incorporate their "differentness" into their personality. Since many parents of gifted kids are gifted themselves, this book is highly recommended.

The Gifted Kids Survival Guide (ages 10 and under) by Judy Galbraith. Answers to most important questions young gifted children have about giftedness. Hundreds of gifted kids contributed to this book. Monarch Books of Canada.

The Gifted Kids Survival Guide (ages 11-18) by J. Galbraith and J. Delisle. Written with the help from hundreds of gifted teenagers, this is an important guide to surviving giftedness. Facts, strategies and practical tools for understanding their giftedness are presented. Monarch Books of Canada.

A Glossary of Terms in Gifted Education - EXCEPTIONAL SITE! from A to Z, definitions, explanations of important terms relating to giftedness

Growing Up Gifted: Developing the Potential of Children at Home and at School by Barbara Clark (Hardcover) Introduction to the characteristics of the gifted and talented children.

Guiding Gifted Readers - From Preschool to High School by Halsted, J. W. (1988). Columbus: Ohio Psychology Publishing. A guide to using bibliotherapy and an annotated list of books to use with gifted students.

History of Gifted Children 1979-1997 (valuable statistics)

How the Gifted Brain Learns by David Sousa. The book is about the general structure and function of the brain and how the gifted brain works differently than the normal brain.

How to Survive and Thrive as Educator of Talented and Gifted by Sally Roets.

If I'm So Successful, Why do I Feel Like a Fake? by Harvey, J. & Katz, C. (1986). The impostor phenomenon. New York: Pocket Books.

The Journey: A handbook for parents of children who are gifted and talented
2004, Alberta Learning

Keys to Parenting the Gifted Child by Sylvia Rimm, PhD. Barron's Publishing. Part of the Barron's Parenting Keys Series, this helpful book examines questions many parents of gifted children have, such as when to start school, grade-skipping, and homework habits. Very readable.

The Many Faces of Giftedness: Lifting the Masks by Baldwin, A.Y., & Vaille, W. (Eds.)(1999), Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. A cross-cultural look at gifted children with disabilities and/or disadvantages.

Mistakes are Great by Zadra, D. (1986). . Mankato, MN: Creative Education. Provides examples of famous mistakes and how they can be turned into positive learning experiences.

A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America’s Brightest Students by Nicholas Colangelo, Susan G. Assouline, Miraca U. M. Gross (download this report)

Nurturing the Gifts and Talents of Primary Grade Students by Baum, S.M., Reis, S.M.,and Maxfield, L.D. (Eds.)(1998). Mansfield Center, CT: Creative Learning Press. This book describes identification of gifts, interests, and learning styles. It also offers curriculum and classroom management tips for meeting gifted children's needs. The Renzulli Model is the basis for approaches.

On Being Gifted (1976). New York: Walker and Co. Written by students (ages 15 to 18) who participated in the National Student Symposium on the Education of the Gifted and Talented, this book is an articulate presentation of student concerns such as peer pressure, teacher expectations, and relationships.

The Over-Scheduled Child: Avoiding the Hyper-Parenting Trap by Alvin Rosenfeld, MD and Nicole Wise. St. Martin's Griffen Press. Gifted kids often want to put themselves in too many activities. Though not specifically directed at parents of gifted, this book examines this concern and makes recommendations for putting on the brakes.

Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good? By Miriam Adderholdt-Elliot, PhD. Free Spirit Publishing. The title says it all. Though directed towards any perfectionist you know -- older middle-school age and up -- this book will also help parents understand and cope with their own gifted perfectionist child.

Re-Forming Gifted Education by Karen Rogers.

The Roller-Coaster Years: Raising Your Child through the Maddening yet Magical Middle School Years by Charlene Gianetti and Margaret Sagarese. Broadway Books. Though not written specifically for parents of gifted kids, this is a very helpful book for parents of an often overlooked age group. There is also a comprehensive list of resources for every chapter!

A Source Book for Helping Children Who are Gifted and Learning Disabled by Marlene Bireley. This book provides strategies for parents and teachers on programming for gifted/learning disabled children. In addition, it provides strategies on controlling disorganization, enhancing memory, increasing attention, developing self concept and control socially inappropriate behaviours. Available through the Council for Exceptional Children.

Stand Up for Your Gifted Child by Joan Franklin Smutney.
This is an excellent resource for parents whose gifted kids aren't getting the education they need. Learn about: understanding giftedness, how to deal with problems at school, options for educating gifted kids, home enrichment.

The Survival Guide for Parents of Gifted Kids by Sally Y. Walker. Free Spirit Publishing. Good advice written with a sense of humor. I've read it many times over! 2004, Alberta Learning

The Survival Guide for Teachers of Gifted Kids by Jim Delisle and Barbara Lewis. All about needs assessments for teachers, students, parents, and administrators.

Tales for the Perfect Child by Heide, F. & Chess, V. (1985). New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books. Presents a funny look at what would happen if children were perfect.

Time Management for Unmanageable People by McGee-Cooper, A., P.O. Box 64784, Dallas, TX 75206. Provides a "right-brain" method for work/study skills and time-management. Suggestions include "reward yourself first and then do your assignments."

Underachieving Gifted Students

Understanding Success and Failure by Lois Roets.

When Gifted Kids Don't have All the Answers: How to Meet their Social and Emotional Needs by Jim Delisle and Judy Galbraith, Free Spirit Publishing, 2002. This is a great book that provides practical suggestions for encouraging social and emotional growth among gifted children and youth. It presents ways to help gifted underachievers, perfectionists and those who are bored in school, ways to advocate for gifted education and ways to create a supportive environment for all gifted students. The book is available through Monarch Books.

The World's Greatest Expert on Absolutely Everything...is Crying by Bottner, B. (1986). New York: Dell Publishers. Deals with how perfectionism affects interpersonal relationships.

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Top Ten Books on Giftedness (2005)
Selected by Noreen H. Joslyn, LISW, ACSW From: http://www.familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,59-24383,00.html

1. Bringing Out the Best: A Resource Guide for Parents of Young Gifted Children by Jacqulyn Saunders with Pamela Espelund. Free Spirit Publishing. A highly practical book. Gives suggestions for enriching home learning plus advice on choosing preschools.

2. The Survival Guide for Parents of Gifted Kids by Sally Y. Walker. Free Spirit Publishing. Good advice written with a sense of humor.

3. The Gifted Kids Survival Guide: For Ages 10 and Under by Judy Galbraith. Free Spirit Publishing. Written for the younger gifted student, this helpful book explains giftedness clearly. Gives many suggestions to help make the school experience more positive.

4. The Gifted Kids' Survival Guide: A Teen Handbook by Judy Galbraith and Jim Delisle, PhD. Free Spirit Publishing. Recently updated, this valuable book covers topics such as how to relate with peers, devising your own curriculum, and college planning. An important chapter covers depression and suicide risks.

5. Keys to Parenting the Gifted Child by Sylvia Rimm, PhD. Barron's Publishing. Part of the Barron's Parenting Keys Series, this helpful book examines questions many parents of gifted children have, such as when to start school, grade-skipping, and homework habits. Very readable.

6. Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good? by Miriam Adderholdt-Elliot, PhD. Free Spirit Publishing. The title says it all. Though directed towards any perfectionist you know -- older middle-school age and up -- this book will also help parents understand and cope with their own gifted perfectionist child.

7. The Roller-Coaster Years: Raising Your Child through the Maddening yet Magical Middle School Years by Charlene Gianetti and Margaret Sagarese. Broadway Books. Though not written specifically for parents of gifted kids, this is a very helpful book for parents of an often overlooked age group. There is also a comprehensive list of resources for every chapter!

8. College Planning for Gifted Students by Sandra L. Berger. The Council for Exceptional Children. A book that takes you from choosing middle-school courses to the college-application process. Recently updated, it also includes data on gifted-teen summer programs and state gifted associations.

9. The Over-Scheduled Child: Avoiding the Hyper-Parenting Trap by Alvin Rosenfeld, MD and Nicole Wise. St. Martin's Griffen Press. Gifted kids often want to put themselves in too many activities. Though not specifically directed at parents of gifted, this book examines this concern and makes recommendations for putting on the brakes.

10. The Gifted Adult: A Revolutionary Guide for Liberating Everyday Genius by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen, PsyD. Ballentine Books. You didn't think you stopped being gifted when you grew up, did you? Insightful writing examines issues that gifted adults may face if they don't successfully incorporate their "differentness" into their personality. Since many parents of gifted kids are gifted themselves, this book is highly recommended.

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Directories: Gifted Education

Google Directory (K-12) Gifted Education

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Educating Very Young Gifted Children

Advice About Very Young Gifted Children

Books for Very Young Gifted Children

Guide for Parents and Teachers of Young Gifted Children

Guidelines and Difficulties in Identifying Very Young Gifted Children

Gifted Children Guidelines for their Development

Gifted Screening and Identification Procedures
- extensive 117 page document, includes identifying K-Gr 2 gifted children

Hoagie's Young Gifted Children Resources

Identifying Very Young Gifted Children

Montessori Methods for the Very Young

Nurturing Giftedness in Young Children Article

Parenting Gifted Preschoolers

Strategies for Teaching Very Young Gifted Children

Teacher Resource Packages for Teaching Young Gifted Children

Teaching Young Gifted Children in a Regular Classroom

Teaching Young Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom Book Review

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Elements Working Against Gifted Education

Barriers to Acceleration

The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt. Full text of this ebook is available for free download.

Genius Denied - newsletter available

The Performance of 'Gifted' High School Students in University
by J. Paul Grayson (1999)

Supporting Gifted Education - Hear Podcast Interviews - for/against

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Gifted and with Exceptionalities/Challenges

ADD: Different Ways to View Your Traits

ADDitude - magazine for parents, children and adults with Attention Deficit Disorder. Topics include ADHD ADD Coaching, special education and family support.

ADHD and Children Who Are Gifted by James T. Webb and Diane Latimer

Bipolar Disorder and the Creative Genius

Challenges of Identifying and Serving Gifted Children with ADHD by Lori J. Flint

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