Keep thinking . . . or, better yet, stay current and relevant
46.9% of the students in the class of 2012 are enrolled in at least one AP course, 35.5% are enrolled in at least 2 AP courses and 27% are enrolled in at least 3 AP courses. FANN MAIL Fremd High School, 10/13/2011
http://www.ingeniosus.net/gtchat: Includes archives of past discussions -
Every Friday at noon and 7:00 p.m. (EST), parents, teachers and gifted advocates from all over the world gather on Twitter to take part in Global #gtchat. This new real-time forum allows participants to share resources, ideas, experiences and new ways of thinking about gifted issues. The collaboration and learning taking place via #gtchat have been invigorating and inspiring! More than 1,000 tweets are now devoted to Global #gtchat each and every week
[[http://www.nagc.org/index.aspx?id=546 ]] Educational Programming Standards for K-12 Gifted Education
http://www.phinished.org/ Assitance from those trying to finish their Phd - anything to keep from becoming ABD
http://scholar.google.com/ On-line search tool that may help generate articles that I can then search for at Milner: May assist in finding other articles sorted differently than the Milner sort;
Fordham’s latest study, "Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude? Performance Trends of Top Students," is the first to examine the performance of America’s highest-achieving children over time at the individual-student level. Produced in partnership with the Northwest Evaluation Association, it finds that many high-achieving students struggle to maintain their elite performance over the years and often fail to improve their reading ability at the same rate as their average and below-average classmates. The study raises troubling questions: Is our obsession with closing achievement gaps and “leaving no child behind” coming at the expense of our “talented tenth”—and America’s future international competitiveness? Read on to learn more. http://www.edutopia.org/adopt-and-adapt-shaping-tech-for-classroom
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Keep thinking . . . or, better yet, stay current and relevant
46.9% of the students in the class of 2012 are enrolled in at least one AP course, 35.5% are enrolled in at least 2 AP courses and 27% are enrolled in at least 3 AP courses. FANN MAIL Fremd High School, 10/13/2011
http://www.nagc.org/ National Association for Gifted Childrenhttp://www.oagc.com/ Ohio Association for Gifted Education
http://www.ingeniosus.net/gtchat: Includes archives of past discussions -
Every Friday at noon and 7:00 p.m. (EST), parents, teachers and gifted advocates from all over the world gather on Twitter to take part in Global #gtchat. This new real-time forum allows participants to share resources, ideas, experiences and new ways of thinking about gifted issues. The collaboration and learning taking place via #gtchat have been invigorating and inspiring! More than 1,000 tweets are now devoted to Global #gtchat each and every week
[[http://www.nagc.org/index.aspx?id=546 ]] Educational Programming Standards for K-12 Gifted Education
http://www.phinished.org/ Assitance from those trying to finish their Phd - anything to keep from becoming ABD
http://community.tes.co.uk/forums/p/431352/5853043.aspx Largest on-line community of teachers; Access to teachers outside of D211 for idea generation and hear what the buzz; Stay away from a district rut! Innovations, creative solutions . . . while it may not be a peer reviewed journal, it certainly functions to as a peer review for ourselves.
http://journals.prufrock.com/IJP/b/the-journal-of-secondary-gifted-education The Journal for Secondary Gifted Education; Peer reviewed on-line Archives from the past ten years;
http://scholar.google.com/ On-line search tool that may help generate articles that I can then search for at Milner: May assist in finding other articles sorted differently than the Milner sort;
http://www.edexcellence.net/publications-issues/publications/high-flyers.html
Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude? Performance Trends of Top Students
September 20, 2011
by Yun Xiang, Michael Dahlin, John Cronin, Robert Theaker, Sarah Durant
Fordham’s latest study, "Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude? Performance Trends of Top Students," is the first to examine the performance of America’s highest-achieving children over time at the individual-student level. Produced in partnership with the Northwest Evaluation Association, it finds that many high-achieving students struggle to maintain their elite performance over the years and often fail to improve their reading ability at the same rate as their average and below-average classmates. The study raises troubling questions: Is our obsession with closing achievement gaps and “leaving no child behind” coming at the expense of our “talented tenth”—and America’s future international competitiveness? Read on to learn more.
http://www.edutopia.org/adopt-and-adapt-shaping-tech-for-classroom