Reading About Giftedness

Articles about Giftedness

Academic

• ​All AP? Not For Me! Why Gifted Children Shouldn't Take the Highest Level Classes

• Getting Restless at the Head of the Class

• The Myth of the Ivy League

• ​​Fluency Without Fear: Research Evidence on the Best Ways to Learn Math Fact​

• A Beginner's Guide to Personalized Learning

• Why SLOW Math is Best

• Self -Regulation in the Classroom: Helping Students Learn How to Learn

• ​Why Do So Many Gifted and Talented Children Hate to Write?

• ​Should Gifted Students Be Grade Advanced?​​

Asynchronous Development

• ​Calvin the Unexpected Gifted Kid​​

• The Dreaded G-Word: When Your Child is Asynchronous​ 

• ​Is It A Cheetah?​​

Imposter Syndrome​​

• Five Types of Imposter Syndrome & How to Beat Them

• ​Learning to Deal with the Imposter Syndrome

• ​The Curious Case of Imposter Syndrome

In the Classroom

• How to Get Gifted Kids to Work in Groups

• The Science Behind "I'm Bored"​

• Embracing Introversion: Ways to Stimulate Reserved Students in the Classroom

• Your Favorite Grouping Strategy Creates Bullies

• Funnel Analogy

• ​Is It A Cheetah?

• 8 Reasons You Should Label Kids as Gifted

• Self -Regulation in the Classroom: Helping Students Learn How to Learn

• 14 Things Gifted Students Want Teachers to KnowI

Intensity

• Where's the Off Switch?

• ​Helping Gifted Kids Cope with Intensity ​

• Highly Sensitive People: A Condition Rarely Understood​

• Assertive or Arrogant?

• ​Why Are SO Many Gifted Children Also Highly Sensitive?​

• Life In HD and HDR

• ​Understanding Very Smart People

Multipotentiality

• Choices Exclude: The Existential Burden of Multipotentiality

Mental Health (Anxiety)

• What to Do (and Not Do) When Children are Anxious​

• What to Say to an Anxious Child

• The Stress of Being Gifted and Talented

• ​10 Steps for Parents and Kids to Tame the Worry Monster

• What It's Like to Have "High-Functioning" Anxiety

• 49 Phrases to Calm An Anxious Child

• ​Monitoring Anxiety in Your Gifted Child​​

• 20 Tips to Help De-escalate Interactions with an Anxious or Defiant Students​​

• Anxiety in Kids: How to Turn it Around & Protect Them for Life

• ​13 Powerful Phrases Proven to Help an Anxious Child Calm Down

Parenting

• Get Your Gifted Boy Through Middle School

• Your Child is Gifted: A Parent's Reaction

• My Mother's Gift​

• I Want My Kids to Fail​

• My Child Is Gifted. Do You Think I'm Bragging Now?

• The Science Behind "I'm Bored"

• What If Michael Phelps Trained in a Kiddie Pool?​​

• ​Is It A Cheetah?

• ​The High Price of Pushing Kids Too Hard

Perfectionism

• Moving Past Perfectionism and Procrastination

• ​When Your Child is a Perfectionist

Twice-Exceptional

• ​The Twice-Exceptional Adult

• When Parenting Twice-Exceptional Kids, Not Everything Needs to Be Fixed

• ​Gifted Children with Asperger Syndrome

• ​​Why Kids with Executive Functioning Issues Have Trouble Starting Tasks

• ADHD or Gifted Overexciteabilities

• That's Not Autism: It's Simply A Brainy, Introverted Boy

Books about Giftedness

If This is a Gift, Can I Send It Back? by Jen Merrill A quick but enjoyable read about the gifted/2e student. Jen Merrill is a parent and blogger who shares honestly about the journey they have taken with her son, "incessant curiosity in crocs". 

Born on a Blue Day  by Daniel Tammet, an autistic savant. WOW! He sees numbers as colors and shapes, can identify every prime number into the 9000s, and has memorized 22,514 digits of pi! His ability to describe how he thinks and sees things is very insightful. He touches on perfectionism, and other characteristics associated with giftedness. 

What To Do When Your Kid Is Smarter Than You by Linda Levitt is a practical guide for parents and teachers for helping to understand gifted children

Blogs About Giftedness

The Fringy Bit - this is Heather Boorman's website - lots of good info here

Laughing at Chaos - Lisa writes from the perspective of a parent of two gifted boys, one who is 2-E

Teach a Gifted Kid - great teacher out of the Houston area

Gifted Parenting Support- a parenting perspective

Krissy Venosdale - Krissy writes from the perspective of a teacher as well as the parent of a twice-exceptional child

Gifted Guru - Lisa writes about all things gifted

Crushing Tall Poppies - parent perspective

​Byrdseed - Ian brings lots of perspectives to the table - GT adult, former teacher, differentiation guru

My Little Poppies - homeschooling mom, lots of insight and some great teaching ideas