Website Resources:

Prufrock Press
http://www.prufrock.com/client/client_pages/teacher_introduction.cfm
This website contains lots of information for teachers on how to differentiate learning for gifted students in general education classroom. It covers a wide variety of topics including how to identify gifted children, tips for beginner teachers and other resources.

National Association for Gifted Children
http://www.nagc.org/
This website is loaded with information for administrators, educators and parents. It is especially good for information on how to advocate for gifted children, including legislative updates and local laws concerning education for gifted students. It even has a weekly webinar to help teachers differentiate learning for gifted students.

National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented
http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/nrcgt.html
This website has a large collection of research articles on gifted children for parents and educators.

American Mensa
http://www.us.mensa.org/Content/AML/NavigationMenu/Programs/GiftedYouth/Gifted_Children.htm
Mensa is primarily a social group for people whose IQ is in the top 2% of the population.It has many members under the age of 18 and offers a teen group. Activities may be social or intellectually challenging. The site also offers resources for parents.

SENG: Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted
http://www.sengifted.org/
This group’s purpose is to empower parents and communities to help gifted individuals reach their full potential. One really great opportunity this group provides is training to be facilitators for support groups. It also provides a list of support groups already established.

National Association for Education
http://www.nea.org/tools/12983.htm
This page has a list of websites and organization that support education for gifted children.

Gifted Development Center
http://www.gifteddevelopment.com/index.htm
This site offers assessments for gifted children and twice-exceptional children
and information about testing. They also have a counselor available for telephone consultations.

GT world
http://gtworld.org/
This website is an online community for gifted individuals and their families. It offers 5 different mailing lists for families raising gifted children, gifted children who also have some kind of disability and gifted adults. It also has a list of resources for gifted individuals.

American Association for Gifted Children
http://aagc.org/
The American Association for Gifted Children is the oldest advocacy group for gifted children in the country. Some of its goals are to evaluate best practices for educating gifted children and providing information for teachers and parents of gifted children. Most of the resources are research articles which may not be readable for parents. However, it does have several articles on gifted preschoolers.

Families of the Gifted and Talented
http://tagfam.org/
This site has some interesting information about the social lives of gifted children. It points out that gifted children aren’t just more accelerated, they tend to think on a deeper level than other children. It also argues that social skills are no reason to hold a child back if he or she is academically ready to skip to a higher grade. Instead, the child should be helped to develop the social skills need in the new environment.

Child Development Information
http://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/learning/gifted_children.shtml
This is a great starting place for parents of gifted children to gather information. It has all the basic information a parent needs without being overwhelming. It does a great job of explaining how gifted children are different and gives early signs to indicate that a child is gifted. It also tells parents how to advocate for a child in school.

Hoagies Gifted
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/
This website has almost any information you might want to know about giftedness. It has tons of resources for parents, teachers and kids about gifted children. The educator section has tons of resources for teachers including links to research about gifted education, professional books and materials.

Creative Teaching
http://www.creativeteaching.org/teaching_gifted_children.htm
The article on this website gives a clear explanation of why the needs of gifted children are just as important as those of children who are struggling in school. It also gives suggestions for modifications to help teach gifted children. There are also professional book suggestions for teachers.

Davidson Institute for Talent Development
http://www.davidsongifted.org/
The Davidson Institute is a private foundation dedicated to serving profoundly gifted. Some of the services they provide are a residential summer camp for teens, a program that assists families with academic support and talent development and a database of information for parents. The Institute also runs a public day school for profoundly gifted children. The site has a page that details each state’s Gifted Education policies. I learned that in South Carolina gifted students do not have to be served before third grade. I also learned that between 10 and 20 percent of all high school dropouts tested in the gifted range.

The Association for the Gifted
http://www.cectag.org/
The Association for the Gifted is a division of the Council for Exceptional Children. The newsletter has interesting articles on Gifted Education such as the underrepresentation of African Americans in Gifted Education.

Uniquely Gifted
http://www.uniquelygifted.org/
This is a great site for information on gifted children who have special needs. There are stories of personal experiences of parents of twice-exceptional children. There is also information on many kinds of specific special needs. There are also sections on special education, advocacy and I.E.Ps.

Cybersource
http://www.gt-cybersource.org/
This site has many links for teachers for lesson plans for gifted children. It also has links to parenting sites for parenting gifted children.

South Carolina Department of Education
http://ed.sc.gov/agency/Standards-and-Learning/AcademicStandards/old/cso/gifted_talented/gt.html
I was excited to learn from this site that there are grant funded courses here at the College of Charleston to train teachers to work with gifted students. I also discovered that the state has a monthly show for teachers about topics that pertain to Gifted and Talented education such as: regulations, assessment, and planning for the next year. The show gives monthly updates on what’s happening in Gifted Education in the state. There are also professional resource development resources at this site.

South Carolina Consortium for Gifted Education
http://www.scgifted.org/index.html
This is the website for a group dedicated to providing professional development training for school personnel working with gifted students. It is a great resource for finding out what is happening with Gifted Education in South Carolina.

Palmetto Scholars Academy
http://www.palmettoscholarsacademy.org
This is the website for the state’s only gifted and talented charter school which is located in North Charleston. They currently serve grades 6-8 but will be adding 9th grade next year and another grade each year after that. Interestingly, students do not have to qualify in any way to be accepted at the school.