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First Special School For Gifted Opens in Worcester, Massachusetts
Back in 1901 educators in Worchester Massachusetts realized the importance of fostering and supporing the gifted students. You may say it is only one school but it takes just one to get a movement going. -
Lewis Terman Publishes the Stanford-Binet
Mr Terman is considered to be the father of the gifted movement. He did extensive work in developing testing for the gifted. I read one article that said that Mr. Goddard brought back the test but Mr. Terman did extensive work revising it. He did extensive research and testing on gifted boys and girls. I was very impressed he included girls which I would think would have been unpopular in the early 1920's. -
Genetic Studies of Genius
Lewis Terman publishes the first of 5 volumes about his gifted studies. The discription of gifted students that are listed in our readings are spot on describing my truly gifted students in my honors math class. -
Gifted Education:Their Nature and Nurture
Ms. Hollingsworth believed that enviroment and educational factors played a part in the potential of children. She tend to focus more on how to nurture and foster the education of children and not focus so much on the testing. -
National Association of Gifted Children
The Association was founded to support not only the profoundly gifted but also children that show the ability to achieve through the arts. One group of students that this organizaiton is there to help is the twice exceptional student. I have heard so many times "How can they be in SPICE and Honors?"This organization not only supports the children but also the families with resources. -
Public Law 94-192
When the Education for all Handicapped Children Act was passed it did not incude gifted children. It states that schools must provide services for students with special educational needs. Don't gifted children have special needs? Why were they not included in this? Just becasue they are advanced does not mean that a regular ed classroom is the best setting to develop their skills. -
No Child Left Behind
If you were to ask most educators what the NCLB act means to them in their classroom they would tell you it means they need to spent extra time with their lowest students to make sure they they are progressing. In many states this means to pass the state assessment. But, what about the gifted student? Doesn't it mean that we have to provide the extra resources for the gifted student to meet their potential? -
Gifted Standards are Published
Two types of standards are published. The first is in the area of teacher preperation. One of the things I noted earlier is that there were no gifted education classe when I got my degrees. That may be becasue I graduated in 1998 and got my masters in 2001. But I had gifted students the day I stepped into my classroom in 1998. The second was the knowledge and skills standards for teachers to use in their classroom. Again as a classroom teacher these were never made available to me.
