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Category Archives: gifted
The Gifted Qualification Outside the Gifted Classroom
Many teachers consider studying gifted education, but have niggling doubts, asking themselves, “Shouldn’t I take a paper which will benefit the whole class?” After ten years in gifted education, I am now focussing on my other specialty which is distance … Continue reading
The wildest winds
My guest blogger, Imogen, is a student of Gifted Online. She has contributed a poem which exudes the confidence and resilience we want for all of the children we teach. Thank you, Imogen! The wildest winds The wildest winds Twist … Continue reading
Posted in education, gifted
Tagged #nzgaw, blog tour, children's writing, Gifted Awareness Week, gifted children, gifted education, guest blogger, poetry, resilience
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Belonging and Gifted Children
This post is by guest blogger Rebecca Howell for the UK, whose past posts for the #NZGAW bog tour have been among our most widely read. Thank you for supporting our blog tour again, Rebecca. The desire for humans to … Continue reading
Posted in education, gifted
Tagged #nzgaw, belonging, blog tour, gifted children, guest blogger, social and emotional needs of the gifted
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The Restraints of Being Gifted
Our guest blogger this evening is a student called Lily, who has also written for Gifted Awareness Week on previous occasions. Thanks, Lily! Often gifted children have little opportunity to learn and expand knowledge. Teachers assume that we’re okay, because … Continue reading
Posted in E-Learning, education, gifted
Tagged #nzgaw, blog tour, challenge, child's viewpoint, children's writing
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Six Word Slogans
Some young gifted children from MindPlus are our guest bloggers tonight, wielding words well for their age. Thanks, kids! Advice for Teachers Gifted kids need more advanced tasks. Let gifted kids’ minds roam freely. What gifted kids value, want … Continue reading
Posted in education, gifted
Tagged #nzgaw, blog tour, children's writing, Gifted Awareness Week
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Creativity and Recreativity
Creativity is a buzzword, both in business and in education. This kind of alignment of school and workplace values doesn’t happen as often as a novice might expect, so it is definitely a situation which educators should make the most … Continue reading
Posted in education, gifted
Tagged #gtchat, #nzgaw, blog tour, creativity, intensity, social and emotional needs of the gifted, work life balance
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What the Tui Tells Me
A former student is not finding writing easy at present. However, he is an amazing young advocate for gifted education, and for many other good causes, so he wrote the words above, and he was pretty sure they wouldn’t be … Continue reading
Posted in education, gifted, New Zealand
Tagged #2ekids, #nzgaw, assessment, blog tour, child's viewpoint, children's art, children's writing, gifted education
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My Mind is Full of Stars
Hamilton MindPlus students were asked to express, in very few words, what gifted children want from teachers, and what they value as learners. What they wrote was the high point of my day, and I hope you’ll love it just … Continue reading
The silencing of the other
Guest blogger Bexology2 confronts haunting issues about giftedness and difference. I’m in the middle of my PhD. It’s not about giftedness or even anything to do with education, but rather it centres on urban poverty and food insecurity. I’m reading … Continue reading
Posted in advocacy, gifted
Tagged #nzgaw, blog tour, difference, social and emotional needs of the gifted
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Becoming a Learning Detective
Some of the gifted children I have taught seem to be ‘knowledge detectives’. Not only do they detect new knowledge, but these children seem to do so with a kind of stealth which an undercover cop would be proud of. … Continue reading