Have to say that I love, love, loved gifted educator Tamara Fisher’s posting today about the Gifted Child’s Bill of Rights. (and I mean that as both and educator of gifted students, and from what I’ve read by her, a gifted-educator.) You can read her post here. And here is the Gifted Child’s Bill of [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Gifted Child’s Bill of Rights
Posted in School, tagged education, Gifted, NAGC, School, teacher on November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Shh…It’s an Education Revolution
Posted in In the News, tagged education, Gifted, Homeschooling - DC area, internet, open courseware, technology on November 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
MIT has announced that it’s extending its OpenCourseWare to include high school offerings. You can read about it here. IMO, university open courseware is one of the best kept secrets of homeschooling. When I tell people that C. is homeschooling, they’re often astounded. How, they wonder, can you homeschool a middle-to-high school student, let alone [...]
Application Time
Posted in School, tagged applications, down county consortium, Gifted, magnet program, MCPS, private school on November 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I am part of a subset of parents which is fortunate (?) to have not just one, but two children in transition years–that is, moving from elementary school to middle school and middle school to high school. For the past few months whenever my compatriots have run into each other, we’ve been waxing nostalgic about [...]
One of the “Disaffected Few”
Posted in In the News, School, tagged ability grouping, differentiation, Gifted, MCPS, NCLB, testing on November 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There’s lots of food for thought in yesterday’s Washington Post article, “No Child’ Law May Slight The Gifted, Experts Say.” It’s a must-read. The comments left by readers were for the most part rather scary, but the Post’s parenting blogger just posted on having a gifted child, so here’s hoping there’s some intelligent discussion in [...]
“There’s Gifted, and Then There’s Profoundly Gifted”
Posted in In the News, School, tagged acceleration, Center for the Highly Gifted, Gifted, highly gifted, identification, levels of giftedness, magnet program, MCPS, profoundly gifted, School on November 25, 2007 | 16 Comments »
Back from our Thanksgiving holiday and catching up with e-mail, I was excited to read the following headline on Washington Post education writer Jay Mathews‘ weekly “Extra Credit” column: “There’s Gifted, and Then There’s Profoundly Gifted.” The title alone was gratifying as it encapsulates the message that many parents struggle to communicate with schools, teachers, [...]
“The Others Left Behind”
Posted in In the News, tagged education, Gifted, identification, maryland, MCPS, montgomery county on November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Over the weekend the Baltimore Sun ran a story entitled “The Others Left Behind.” The scope of the story was statewide, highlighting the uneven delivery of gifted services county to county. Montgomery and Howard were cited as exemplary in that for the past 20 years they have been identifying, grouping and providing advanced curriculum to [...]
Normal is Relative
Posted in School, tagged accommodation, CTY, education, Educational management team, EMT, Gifted, GT/LD, IEP, math, MCPS, parent involvement, spelling, teacher, testing on November 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »
For years much of the drama in our family has centered around C, the child who caused me to coin the term “the more child” in the first place. And for years my husband and I have said privately to each other, “Thank goodness M. (her younger sister) is ‘normal.”‘ M. has just always been [...]
TED | Talks | Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? (video)
Posted in Interesting, tagged creativity, education, Gifted on November 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I love TED.com talks. They simply make me feel smarter, cooler, inspired. And one of my favorites is this one, by Sir Ken Robinson. They’re also a part of C.’s homeschooling.
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