Category: activities
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Not every gifted child cares about football. Some will ignore the World Cup entirely and continue with dinosaurs, coding, mythology, chemistry, trains, languages, or whatever currently occupies their attention. But for others, something curious happens. A tournament begins, and suddenly football is everywhere at home. Not necessarily in the usual sense of supporting a team…
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A follow-up to “Debunking Myths in Gifted Education“ In our previous piece debunking common myths about gifted education, we closed with an encouraging note from the National Association for Gifted Children: starting a gifted education program “requires little more than an acknowledgement… that gifted students need something different” and a commitment to picking “low-hanging fruit”…
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Ho-ho-ho! Christmas is there! Well, in the shops and supermarkets the Christmas decorations and chocolate figurines have appeared the day after Halloween. But the moment has now arrived and we have to figure out how to happily celebrate the holidays… or at least to survive them. I know that you, fellow parents of gifted children,…