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Meeting the Needs of Talented Elementary Math Students

Monday, July 27, 2009 by Kendall Hunt

When looking for talented and gifted resources, it is important to meet the needs of all of your TAG math students. The following article by M. Katherine Gavin, Ph.D. from Neag Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development, Univeristy of CT,
really embraces the issues to consider regarding books for gifted learners.

http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/projectm3/meeting%20the%20needs.html

Program reaches out to Gifted, Talented

Monday, July 27, 2009 by Kendall Hunt

The following article is a great example of how a curriculum for high ability learners is making a difference.

http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/projectm3/Hartford_Courant_Article.pdf

It was not mentioned in the article that the materials the club is utilizing are from the Project M3: Mentoring Mathematical Minds program which is a accelerated learning resource for mathematics. If a student is this interested the mathematics used in this program during an after-school club, imagine what it would do for him as a TAG math class curriculum?

Got Gifted Education Books? We Do!

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 by Dianne Lorento

Center for Gifted Education at The College of William & Mary

Have you checked out our gifted and accelerated learning resources lately? Whether it's elementary education books for gifted students or high school science textbooks for accelerated learners, we have something that will meet your needs. One of our partners is the Center for Gifted Education at the College of William & Mary with whom we publish a curriculum for high ability learners that spans the subjects of Language Arts, Science and Social Studies and grades 1-11. Additionally, the program offers teacher resources and lesson plans for gifted and talented. You can find the program here.

Project M3: Mentoring Mathematical Minds Elementary Education Books for Gifted Learners

To complete our talented and gifted resources, is Project M3: Mentoring Mathematical Minds, a research-based mathematics program for gifted and talented students in grades 3, 4, and 5. Project M3 gets students involved by offering interesting subjects they find relevant, and gets them learning by doing. You can check out this great program here.

Talented and Gifted Resources

Thursday, July 2, 2009 by Dianne Lorento

I don’t know about you, but when I was in school, there was no such thing as talented and gifted resources, gifted education books, or, for that matter, talented and gifted education. We had accelerated courses, but those were more about working a grade level ahead, using a high school biology book in 8^th grade, or using middle school books in 5^th grade, rather than the textbooks for elementary school.

What type of accelerated learning resources is your school using? Do you have a budget for books for gifted students? At my son’s school, the gifted teacher does a wonderful job of creating projects for the children using ideas of her own because she doesn’t have a budget. But I think about how much easier her job would be and how much more robust the program could be if she had a budget to purchase a curriculum for high ability learners.