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NAGC works to support those who enhance the growth and development of gifted and talented children through education, advocacy, community building, and research
The February 2020 issue of Teaching for High Potential is available now for members
This month's subjects include: Praise & Encouragement, Number Talks, EdTech Science Trends, and more.
Attend the Leadership & Advocacy Conference, March 17-18, 2020 in Alexandria VA to sharpen your advocacy and policy skills, visit your Congressional Representative and Senators, and learn how Federal policies are impacting gifted education.
Teaching for High Potential has a wealth of material related to classroom strategies and curricular methodology. Explore feature articles and special columns below to uncover read
er-friendly lessons and curricular advice from THP authors and columnists. Use the issue reference at the end of the title to access the issue.
| Title and Author | Description | THP Issue |
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| Teaching What is Essential: Asking the Essential Questions by MacFarlane, B |
The use of Essential Questions in curricular planning and delivery can help students learn independently and also provide the connective tissue between what matters at the heart of the curriculum and assessment of what students have learned. | Winter 2015 |
| The Enrichment Seminar: A Middle/ Secondary Course for Gifted Learners by Simpson, J |
Create courses, programs, and activities that may positively influence the identity formation of students. | Summer 2014 |
| Somewhere in Time… A True Educational Giant: Virgil S. Ward by Schultz, B. |
An imagined interview with Dr. Virgil S. Ward. Dr. Ward taught at the University of Virginia from 1956- 1986, who is considered to be a major philosopher/theorist of gifted education. | Spring 2014 |
| The Next Generation Science Standards and High-Ability Learners by Cotabish, A |
Differentiation strategies intended to engage students in higher order thinking skills as they relate to the new science standards. | Winter 2014 |
| More Strategies that Raise the Ceiling for High Ability Students by Dixon, F. |
Both problem solving and Visual Thinking Strategies support the goal of challenge and change for high-ability students in the 21st century. | Summer 2013 |
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Nurturing Mathematical Minds: Differentiation Strategies and Curriculum that Promote Growth |
Curriculum for gifted math students should be accelerated when appropriate and opportunities provided that allow for growth in the individual student. |
Summer 2012 |
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Creative Process Assessment as a Means to Creative Productivity: How to Help Students Make the Most of their Capabilities |
Facilitating the creative process through ongoing assessments can make the difference. |
Fall 2012 |
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Selecting Online Curricula for Gifted Learners |
A look at the criteria to be used in selecting the best online class environment. |
Fall 2012 |
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Curriculum Compacting: How and Why to Differentiate Beyond Proficiency |
Making learning meaningful through effective assessment, compacting, and acceleration of curriculum. |
Spring 2008 |
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Differentiating Content Using a Conceptual Lens |
Infusing strategic thinking around universal concepts to build depth of understanding in students. |
Spring 2008 |
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Infusing Thinking Skills in the Classroom |
Embedding six strategies and three processes in the curriculum to foster thinking skills in students. |
Fall 2007 |
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Extreme ESP: Meaningful Thematic Activities for High-Ability Middle School Students |
Hoffman outlines an integrated and innovative MS unit of study based on the idea of extreme sports and service projects based on work by noted GT researchers. |
Fall 2011 |
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Applying Differentiation Strategies to AP Psychology Curriculum |
Applying the educational methods behind AP curriculum to meet the needs of GT secondary students. |
Fall 2008 |
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Class: Teaching Teachers How to Differentiate from Day One |
A college professor chronicles her use of Sandra Kaplan's stages of differentiated instruction in her English methods class, which can be used with any age group. |
Spring 2009 |
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Recognizing the Need for a Continuum of Services |
How Adams County School District 14 uses differentiation and content extension based on a continuum of service depending on the needs of the GT students K-12. |
Winter 2012 |
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Socratic Circles: Round and Round the Wheels of Thought |
A description of the process and value of Socratic Circles to help enrich classroom discussion and depth of understanding within a classroom. |
Summer 2011 |
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Creative Problem Solving Embedded into Curriculum |
A look at the fundamentals of the Creative Problem Solving Method |
Fall 2009 |
| Title and Author | Description | THP Issue |
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| Take a Virtual Hike… by Danielian, J. |
A virtual hike is only a click away, and the views and experiences are breathtaking. | Summer 2014 |
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Technology Untangled: Using Google Trends and Analytics to Examine What Interests Us |
The use of Google Trends and Google Analytics to see patterns and comparisons within knowledge searches. |
Fall 2008 |
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In Your Toolbox: New NAGC P-12 Gifted Programming Standards: Changes and Opportunities |
Looking at six major shifts in scope in the new NAGC Standards and what these mean to the GT teacher in the field |
Winter 2011 |
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Flipping the Classroom: A Revolution |
Try “Flipping the Classroom” and see what can happen when students receive information and content at home and apply their newly acquired knowledge while in class. |
Fall 2012 |
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Meeting the Needs of the Multicultural Gifted Students through Collaborative Teaching and Counseling |
Ways to support GT students with high degrees of emotional sensitivity through key activities and collaboration with school counselors and regular education teachers. |
Spring 2011 |
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Subject Matters: Nurturing Your Students' Creativity through City-Themed Poetry |
Finding the creative juices flowing through poems revolving around the urban environment. | Summer 2011 |
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Subject Matters: Teaching Haiku in the Classroom: Nurturing the Creativity of Students |
Using haiku to build observation and process writing skills in elementary students. |
Spring 2010 |
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Inspiring Student Creativity from SCRATCH by Housand, B. |
Using a the free-online source, SCRATCH, to teach programming to students through mini-lessons and projects. |
Winter 2009 |
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Subject Matters: Support Creativity: 5 Ways to Make a Difference |
Practical tips and strategies for building creativity both inside and outside the classroom |
Spring 2009 |
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Happily Ever After: Benchmark Testing by Schultz, B. |
A father questions the validity of, and stress upon, of benchmark testing on his GT son. |
Fall 2007 |
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Self-Assessment: Are You Including the Best Practices for Teaching Gifted and Advanced Learners |
Helping teachers assess how well what they do in the classroom meshes with best teaching practices for students who are gifted and advanced. | Spring 2011 |
THP’s columnist Jennifer Beasley, author of The Curriculum Connection, takes an in-depth look at curriculum with advice and tools for K-12 curriculum.
| Title and Author | Description | THP Issue |
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| Service Learning: A Win-Win for Your Students and the Local Community by McGinnis, P. |
Incorporate a service learning component into an existing curriculum. | Summer 2014 |
| Increasing Rigor: A Tool to Consider by Beasley, J. |
As educators consider the questions asked and the learning experiences created, rigor should be a natural part of the planning process. | Summer 2014 |
| Performance Tasks: Building Bridges Between Gifted and General Education by Beasley, J. |
Using performance tasks that introduce real-world problems helps students make the connection between the life of school. | Winter 2014 |
| High Quality Curriculum: Reflecting on the NAGC Curriculum Rubric by Beasley, J |
The NAGC Curriculum Rating Rubric, designed to review submissions for the curriculum award, continues to provide guidance in analyzing and designing outstanding units for high-achieving students. | Fall 2013 |
| Curriculum for the 21st Century: Making the Connection in the Gifted Classroom by Beasley, J. |
Explore how 21st century skills require connecting what is known about best practices in curriculum, assessment, and the nature and needs of our students. | Summer 2013 |
| Social and Emotional Needs: Is There a Curriculum Connection? by Beasley, J. |
The social and emotional needs of students can be addressed and nurtured by infusing information into the curriculum | Fall 2012 |
| Teachers Designing Curriculum for High-Potential Learners by Beasley, J. |
Setting the framework for future articles focus on how to make exemplary GT curriculums within the existing standards-based environment. Beasley also lists four resources to kick of the discussion. | Spring 2007 |
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Field Trips: Do We Have Permission to Go? |
Tips for making field trips worthwhile and meaningful. | Fall 2008 |
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When is the Right Answer a Question?by Beasley, J. |
Looking at the benefits for structuring knowledge by using Wiggins and McTighe's Essential Questions in class. | Winter 2009 |
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Mapping the Way for Mindset |
Hints on how to use Carol Dweck’s fixed and growth mindsets to help understand and support a GT student's sense of self-efficacy. | Spring 2011 |
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A Summer Assignment |
Five resources for summer reading and wandering in preparation for the next year of teaching. | Summer 2011 |
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Creating a Community of Learners: The Foundation for High Quality Curriculum |
Steps to take to build a welcoming, safe, and respectful classroom community. | Spring 2012 |
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Knowing is a Process, Not a Product by Beasley, J. |
Using essential questions to bridge the relevancy divide between high stakes testing and low stakes learning. | Spring 2008 |
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The Myth of Gifted Curriculum: Rethinking Bloom's Taxonomy |
Arguing the case for the 2001 revision of Bloom's Taxonomy not as THE tool for curriculum development but A tool. | Fall 2009 |
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Arriving at the Core |
Looking at the impact, or not, of the of the Common Core Standards on gifted education and the NAGC standards. | Winter 2012 |
NAGC believes that great research comes from great classroom practice, just as great classroom practice comes from great research. In an effort to connect current research from the pages of Gifted Child Quarterly (GCQ) with quality classroom practice, many issues of THP contain an article written by an author of a related article in GCQ.
| Title and Author | Description | THP Issue |
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| Building on the Best of Gifted Education with Programming for Talent Development by Olszewski-Kubilius, P., Subotnik, R., and Worrell, F. |
There is great diversity among gifted students in terms of their talent areas, their levels of achievement, and their psychological and social characteristics. A talent development framework that emphasizes several key components has several implications for K-12 education. | Fall 2012 |
| Gifted Program Retrospective: Teachers Look Back at Own Experiences by Willard-Holt, C. |
Female teachers who were gifted students reflect on the emotional pros and cons of their schooling. | Fall 2008 |
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The Role of Teachers when Gifted Students Experience Negative Life Events |
Insights into situations and events that produce a negative effect on GT students and how teachers can help. | Winter 2009 |
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Project EXCITE: Implications for Educators of Gifted Minority Students |
African American and Hispanic youth are exposed to enriching educational experiences, over time and with like peers, to build a sense of "scholar identity." | Spring 2009 |
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Big Ships, Small Ships, Friendships, and Competition: Things to Consider |
How self-concept, social support structures, and competition come into play in the types of friendships GT students form. | Spring 2009 |
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Demythologizing Gifted Education: A 25-Year Journey |
Treffinger tackles the issues gifted education has had to confront in terms of common myths historically and today. | Fall 2009 |
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Getting Excited About Learning: Promoting Passion Among Gifted Youth |
Exploring why passion for learning wanes from elementary to high school and possible ways to combat it. | Winter 2010 |
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