Gifted and Talented
Center for Talented Youth
Since 1979, the Center for Talented Youth (CTY) at Johns Hopkins University has focused on the needs of students with exceptionally high academic abilities. The CTY community includes very bright students from all over the world whose talents place them well ahead of their agemates. These students need special attention: greater academic challenges, interaction with intellectual peers, and teaching strategies designed especially for the gifted. CTY offers gifted students, and their families and schools as well, a wide range of programs and services to nurture their intellectual abilities, enhance personal development, and foster better understanding of the needs of talented youth.
College Planning for Gifted and Talented Youth
Gifted and talented (GT) students often have problems beyond those of most other students who consider college and career choices. A systematic, collaborative approach is needed whereby students learn that college planning is part of life career development; it need not be a finite event that begins and ends mysteriously or arbitrarily. This article talks about the process necessary for college planning for G and T students.
Council for Exceptional Children
The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) is the largest international professional organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities, students with disabilities, and/or the gifted. CEC advocates for appropriate governmental policies, sets professional standards, provides continual professional development, advocates for newly and historically underserved individuals with exceptionalities, and helps professionals obtain conditions and resources necessary for effective professional practice.
Counseling the Gifted
This website is for mental-health professionals working with the gifted and provides information about general individual and group supervision for mental health professionals.
Education Program for Gifted Youth
Stanford University, through its Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY), offers computer-based, distance-learning courses to gifted and talented K-12 students. Designed to provide students with advanced instruction in mathematics, these courses enable schools to meet the educational needs of their most able students.
Education World: Gifted and Talented
Education World maintains a section of gifted children. Look under sections such as resources, articles, reviews, database, and related links.
Families of the Talented and Gifted
Valorie J. King maintains the site for TAG - Families of the Talented and Gifted. This is a great place for parents to start. There is information on how to identify a gifted child and information about schooling gifted and talented children.
Gifted Development Center
Since 1979, The Gifted Development Center (GDC), a service of the Institute for the Study of Advanced Development, has served as a resource center for developmentally advanced children and their parents, and for gifted individuals of all ages. We provide in-depth assessment, counseling, consulting services and innovative materials. GDC provides true expertise and experience with gifted issues and the unique perspective of looking at giftedness from the inside--as advanced awareness and emotional intensity--as well as often being out-of-sync with the rest of the world.
GT World
GT World strives to provide a warm, comfortable, yet challenging environment in which to explore intellectual giftedness and the issues which surround it. These include parenting and advocating for our children, teaching them how to advocate for themselves, the experience of growing up gifted, obtaining an appropriate education, helping gifted kids with learning disabilities, and the wide range of other issues which tend to be flavored strongly by the our own and our children's "difference". To this end, we provide a number of ways for community members to get together.
Hoagies' Gifted Education Page
Hoagies' Gifted Education Page is put out by Carolyn K. and the National Gifted Children's Fund. You can find research on parenting and educating GT students, characteristics of GT students, home schooling for the gifted and resources.
MENSA
Mensa is an organization that provides a forum for intellectual exchange among its members. Activities can include lectures, discussions, journals, special-interest groups, and gatherings of members. Their web site can give you further information on how to join.
Missouri: Gifted and Talented
This web site will assist you in finding information about state assisted programs for gifted education in the state of Missouri. You will also find the director and assistant director of gifted education, Missouri's growth rate chart for gifted, workshops and conferences, and research in gifted education.
National Association for Gifted Children
NAGC is a non-profit organization of parents, teachers, educators, other professionals and community leaders who unite to address the unique needs of children and youth with demonstrated gifts and talents as well as those children who may be able to develop their talent potential with appropriate educational experiences.
National Association of State Directors of Special Education, Inc.
NASDSE provides support to all states and territories in the delivery of quality education to children and youth with disabilities through training, technical assistance, research, policy development and powerful collaborative relationships with other organizations and all constituencies.
National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented
This site is a super source. It links to The Gifted Education Press; provides information about summer programs, and a mentor connection; and, as an extra bonus, offers students in grades 4 through college the opportunity to find same-age overseas pen pals who are looking for someone to correspond with in English.
The National Association for Gifted Children: Position Statements
The National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) periodically issues policy statements that deal with issues, policies, and practices that have an impact on the education of gifted and talented students.
Time to Invent
The Time to Invent Club is an invention-based mentoring program developed by WGBH (Boston’s PBS station) and funded by the Lemelson Foundation. Fifth graders participate in fun, hands-on invention activities that spark their interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
The organizations, Web sites and other resources listed here are not exhaustive, nor is their inclusion intended as an endorsement by the American School Counselor Association. Rather, these listings are intended to assist school counselors in their efforts to better address children's academic, career, and personal/social development needs.
Since 1979, the Center for Talented Youth (CTY) at Johns Hopkins University has focused on the needs of students with exceptionally high academic abilities. The CTY community includes very bright students from all over the world whose talents place them well ahead of their agemates. These students need special attention: greater academic challenges, interaction with intellectual peers, and teaching strategies designed especially for the gifted. CTY offers gifted students, and their families and schools as well, a wide range of programs and services to nurture their intellectual abilities, enhance personal development, and foster better understanding of the needs of talented youth.
College Planning for Gifted and Talented Youth
Gifted and talented (GT) students often have problems beyond those of most other students who consider college and career choices. A systematic, collaborative approach is needed whereby students learn that college planning is part of life career development; it need not be a finite event that begins and ends mysteriously or arbitrarily. This article talks about the process necessary for college planning for G and T students.
Council for Exceptional Children
The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) is the largest international professional organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities, students with disabilities, and/or the gifted. CEC advocates for appropriate governmental policies, sets professional standards, provides continual professional development, advocates for newly and historically underserved individuals with exceptionalities, and helps professionals obtain conditions and resources necessary for effective professional practice.
Counseling the Gifted
This website is for mental-health professionals working with the gifted and provides information about general individual and group supervision for mental health professionals.
Education Program for Gifted Youth
Stanford University, through its Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY), offers computer-based, distance-learning courses to gifted and talented K-12 students. Designed to provide students with advanced instruction in mathematics, these courses enable schools to meet the educational needs of their most able students.
Education World: Gifted and Talented
Education World maintains a section of gifted children. Look under sections such as resources, articles, reviews, database, and related links.
Families of the Talented and Gifted
Valorie J. King maintains the site for TAG - Families of the Talented and Gifted. This is a great place for parents to start. There is information on how to identify a gifted child and information about schooling gifted and talented children.
Gifted Development Center
Since 1979, The Gifted Development Center (GDC), a service of the Institute for the Study of Advanced Development, has served as a resource center for developmentally advanced children and their parents, and for gifted individuals of all ages. We provide in-depth assessment, counseling, consulting services and innovative materials. GDC provides true expertise and experience with gifted issues and the unique perspective of looking at giftedness from the inside--as advanced awareness and emotional intensity--as well as often being out-of-sync with the rest of the world.
GT World
GT World strives to provide a warm, comfortable, yet challenging environment in which to explore intellectual giftedness and the issues which surround it. These include parenting and advocating for our children, teaching them how to advocate for themselves, the experience of growing up gifted, obtaining an appropriate education, helping gifted kids with learning disabilities, and the wide range of other issues which tend to be flavored strongly by the our own and our children's "difference". To this end, we provide a number of ways for community members to get together.
Hoagies' Gifted Education Page
Hoagies' Gifted Education Page is put out by Carolyn K. and the National Gifted Children's Fund. You can find research on parenting and educating GT students, characteristics of GT students, home schooling for the gifted and resources.
MENSA
Mensa is an organization that provides a forum for intellectual exchange among its members. Activities can include lectures, discussions, journals, special-interest groups, and gatherings of members. Their web site can give you further information on how to join.
Missouri: Gifted and Talented
This web site will assist you in finding information about state assisted programs for gifted education in the state of Missouri. You will also find the director and assistant director of gifted education, Missouri's growth rate chart for gifted, workshops and conferences, and research in gifted education.
National Association for Gifted Children
NAGC is a non-profit organization of parents, teachers, educators, other professionals and community leaders who unite to address the unique needs of children and youth with demonstrated gifts and talents as well as those children who may be able to develop their talent potential with appropriate educational experiences.
National Association of State Directors of Special Education, Inc.
NASDSE provides support to all states and territories in the delivery of quality education to children and youth with disabilities through training, technical assistance, research, policy development and powerful collaborative relationships with other organizations and all constituencies.
National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented
This site is a super source. It links to The Gifted Education Press; provides information about summer programs, and a mentor connection; and, as an extra bonus, offers students in grades 4 through college the opportunity to find same-age overseas pen pals who are looking for someone to correspond with in English.
The National Association for Gifted Children: Position Statements
The National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) periodically issues policy statements that deal with issues, policies, and practices that have an impact on the education of gifted and talented students.
Time to Invent
The Time to Invent Club is an invention-based mentoring program developed by WGBH (Boston’s PBS station) and funded by the Lemelson Foundation. Fifth graders participate in fun, hands-on invention activities that spark their interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
The organizations, Web sites and other resources listed here are not exhaustive, nor is their inclusion intended as an endorsement by the American School Counselor Association. Rather, these listings are intended to assist school counselors in their efforts to better address children's academic, career, and personal/social development needs.