I’d been teaching gifted students for a year when I met the cutie pie who would shatter what I thought I knew about gifted kids. Like many who were new to the field or who didn’t have experience with gifted children, I thought that giftedness could easily be measured, quantified, and identified. I was wrong….
The day 16 month old Trevor looked at me and asked if I’d take him to “Macedonia to sit near the tracks and watch for trains,” I was reminded that I was going to need help with him. At 16 months old, he already spoke with better articulation than many five year olds I knew, and…
It’s no secret that we love hands-on science around here. My kids are always interested in learning more about any topic that is science related, and I’m always interested in trying out programs that are organized and have most of the work done for me. I was compensated for the time it took to…
So, this might come as a surprise to you, as I own and maintain a website, but I’m not the techiest of people. My kids, on the other hand, are. They love tinkering with programming and have had fun playing around with simple coding books, robotics kits, and online coding games. But they’ve never felt…
The noise level was louder than a normal classroom, and I loved it. Kids were in small groups, scattered around the room, fighting to be the first to solve the card and capture a point for their team. Learning with games was an integral part of my strategy for teaching gifted kids in my classroom,…
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