Gifted Links Library

One of the web's better collections of electronic resources for parents and teachers of gifted children

LINKS ARE LISTED by groups as follows:

General reference, including sections: Identification, Gifted & Learning Disabilities, Underachievement
Mainly for families, including sections: Preschoolers, Years K-6, Years 7-12
Mainly for teachers, including sections: Teaching practice, Resources,Tertiary courses/research centres
Education systems, including Australia
Support groups & institutions, including Global, Australia, US, Other countries
Conference papers
Discussion lists & forums

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General reference

Australian Government Education Portal - Covering education across Australia.
The ERIC Clearing House - The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is probably the most comprehensive clearinghouse of education related material, including extensive coverage of gifted children. It provides a bibliography of relevant publications and other useful information. You can simply ask ERIC a question. ERIC also includes (2,600 as at Jun 2003) succinct public domain digests of information including many related to gifted and talented children which are independently searchable.
Flinders University Library - Provides an annotated list of key reference sites.
Gifted Resources - An Australian information service for parents and teachers of gifted students and the service providers that cater for them.
Google's Gifted Education collection - Shows the most frequently visited sites by category.
KidSource Online. - A large range of articles on various aspects relevant to parents and teachers of gifted children, many of which appear to be ERIC digests republished.
Nation Deceived - A US site with relevant information on the research related to acceleration.

- Identification

GT-World's Testing FAQ - A good starting point for those interested in testing.
Testing for the Highly Gifted - Davidson Institute

- Gifted & learning disabled

All kinds of minds - Great site exploring the different ways children learn and providing resources and support for teachers to respond to this challenge
GLD Info - A collection of information sites collated by the NSWAGTC GLD Support Group
Dsylexia Online - Online magazine with information and resources.
Gifted & Creative Services Australia - Lesley Sword's site, with a visual-spatial emphasis.
Hoagies Visual-Spatial Links - Annotated links.
NeuroLearning - a website created by Dr Fernette Eide to help parents learn about their children's learning differences and disabilities
Uniquely Gifted - Excellent and comprehensive site covering gifted children with special needs (ADHD, Learning Disabilities, Asperger Syndrome, etc)

- Underachievement

Underachievement in gifted education - An excellent collection of resources regarding gifted underachievers (part of WA Dept of Education EAGER site).

Mainly for families

Amby's Gifted Resources - Provides a list of well annotated web sites related to gifted children.
Dear School People - Center for Creative Learning's 20 questions to ask schools
Gifted-Children.com.au - A Australian site dedicated to paresnts of gifted children by a parent.
GT World - An online support community for parents of gifted children, including a website, several discussion lists and a MOO.
Helen Dowland's Helping Gifted Children - A range of resources compiled by the Australian Mensa Gifted Children's Coordinator.
Hoagies - A labor of love that is a wonderful US resource for gifted kids, and their parents and teachers. Includes the latest research on parenting and education practices.
Hoagies Software Reviews - Check what others have said about the software out there.
Homeschooling & Socialisation - A US homeschooler responds to this common question.
Our Gifted Online Conferences - A new US site supporting online conferences allowing all kinds of gifted issues to be discussed.
Picky Parent guide to schools -

- Preschoolers

First-School - Wide variety of activities for ages 2-6.
Gayle's Preschool Rainbow - A large range of activities for early childhood teachers as well as parents.
Parenting Gifted Preschoolers - An Austega article covering identification and activities for gifted preschoolers.
Paula's Preschool Activities - A large range of activities and ideas, with a home-schooling emphasis.
Pratt's Early Childhood Education Page - A huge range of links re toddlers through to early primary age.
Stormie's Potpourri of Ideas - An eclectic mix of ideas for preschoolers from a preschool teacher.

- Years K-6

Aunty Math - Weekly maths challenge aimed at K-5 from DuPage Children's Museum
Boston Children's Museum - An interactive museum.
Bubble Dome - An interactive children's story website that aims to develop imagination and lateral thinking.
BrainPop - Selection of animated movies on health, sceince and technology themes.
Capital Children's Museum, Washington DC - An interactive museum.
Cartoonster - Free animation tutorials from an Australian high school student.
Chicago Children's Museum - An interactive museum.
CSIRO Education NSW - Access to a range of programs for children and their schools.
Cyberchase - A high production value site with many maths games.
DiscoverySchool - Learning and homework help oriented site for K-12 students and their teachers/parents.
Electronics for Beginners - Australian site by Peter Schmedding
EngQuest 2006 - A fun, hands-on and exciting schools program for primary students, encouraging interest in Engineering, Science, Maths and Technology.
Eureka Children's Museum, Halifax UK - An interactive museum.
Kids.net.au - Very large annotated directory/search engine of web sites of interest to kids.
KidsClick - Good portal to info on a wide range of subjects, apparently vetted by librarians.
Hoagies' Kids - Provides a range of interesting activities and links to great places for kids.
The Mummy Maker - BBC game about mummy making in ancient Egypt
Miss Maggie's Earth Adventures - Attractive free Flash animated site for learners (and teachers).
Puzz - Lateral thinking and logic puzzles.
Shields, Knights and Heraldry - Offers free software to allow children to make their own shields/coat of arms.
The Space Place - NASA's site for kids interested in space-related activities and science.
Try Science - Educational science site with a range of games and experiments.
Yucky Body - An informative animated site on the various bodily functions (except reproductive ones).

- Years 7-12

Anchors Away Longitude Mapping Game - Web based learning game.
Artist's Toolkit - Explore visual elements with interacitve demos and a create your own tool.
Brian Barratt's English site - Explores the history and usage of English in an eclectic, fascinating way
Csubjects.com - Free college level tuition material in a wide range of subjects
Electronic Wizards Apprenticeship - Commercial operation providing monthly "wonderboxes".
EdNA's Curriculum Resources - Authoritative evaluated resources from Australia's EdNA.
Geometry from the Land of the Incas - Great Flash enabled site on Euclidean geometry.
Hoagies Investigations - Reference libraries and individual links for all your school subjects.
Hoagies' Teens - Provides a range of interesting activities and links to great places for teenagers.
Lateral puzzles - A large and free collection of puzzles with interactive chat problem solving.
The Mint - An integrated US web-site covering personal finance and economic themes designed for middle and high school students, their teachers and parents.
MIT Open Courseware - Massachusetts Institute of Technology course material progressively put online for public use
Moneyopolis - US site using a game format for junior high maths in a personal finance setting "the place for money-sharp kids" - authored by Ernst and Young
Nick's Mathematical Puzzles - Lots of great mathematical puzzles
Physics Classroom - Attractive online tutorials on several physics topics.
Robocode - Site allows you to program your own virtual robotank using Java with virtual competitions or rumbles between the created tanks
SmartGirls on TV - Help explore images of smart girls on TV
TeleMentors - a site linking students with a particular interest electronically to volunteers working in the fields
Also check out the Years K-6 collection, some of which cover the full K-12 range

Mainly for teachers

- Resources

Artchive - An apparently full and free collection of the world's great art with commentary.
Awesome Library - Provides 18,000 reviewed web resources including the top 5% in education.
Cool Slang - An archive of world slang in multiple languages - and you can contribute your local variants.
Colour Theory - The part of art about how to mix and put colors together.
Csubjects.com - Free college level tuition material in a wide range of subjects
EdResearch Online - Australian database to 12000+ journal documents, 75% available in full for free
Epals Classroom Exchange - large provider of safe email and international epal arrangements
Future Problem Solving Program - Engages students in creative problem solving, stimulating critical and creative thinking skills and the development of a vision for the future. Programs in US/Australia/NZ and mentoring elsewhere.
High School Hub - Great US site providing categorized links to free online resources relevant to high school students
Hoagies Internet Programs - Internet based programs for full classes K-12
Illuminations - US mathematics mega site with classroom ready lessons and applets.
Impressionism - A tour of French impressionist paintings with suggested teacher lessons for grades 1-8.
Kindergarten Connection - Fresno Pacific Uni's support site for kindergarten teachers.
National Centre for History Education - Excellent gateway for teaching and learning Australian history.
"Night of Notables" - Describes the Night of the Notables (or variously, Festival of the Famous or Evening of Eagles) programs used in many Australian schools to cater for gifted children and to promote autonomous learning.
Perpetual Preschool - A site with a large range of contributed preschool teaching ideas.
UN's CyberSchoolBus - the United Nation's global teaching and learning project provides access to some fascinating and mind-expanding information particularly for those interested in the larger world, and also a few games.
Wikipedia - free collaborative encyclopedia covering everything but with a possible special appeal to gifted idealistic students ready to contribute to such a global knowledge project.
Check also under Mainly for Families for age specific links of value to parents, children and teachers.

- School G&T policies

None known at present...

- Teaching practice

Aust universities explore tailored electronic learning based on pretesting
Gifted Education Professional Development Package - Australian Government commissioned package developed by the Gifted Education Research, Resource and Information Centre (GERRIC) at the University of New South Wales. This research, in plain language, is illustrated by cartoons, case studies and examples of how it can be applied in the mainstream classroom. The modules cover all levels of schooling: early childhood (the initial years of schooling), primary (later years of primary schools), and secondary (secondary school). The modules are also ordered according to whether a teacher is in a rural or urban school, teaching in the classroom or involved in school administration, or whether the teacher is working alone or undertaking professional development in a small group or whole school situation.
Know Drama - Interesting Australian site dedicated to supporting a fresh approach to teaching
Guidance on teaching the gifted & talented - UK National Curriculum guide for teachers

- Tertiary institutions/courses/research centres

Center for Gifted Education - Headed by Prof VanTassel-Baska, the Center has a strong emphasis on curriculum. The site contains an excellent set of articles.
(GERRIC) University of New South Wales - Details of courses in gifted education for teachers.

Education systems

- Australia

Australian Senate Inquiry 2001 - Final Report of the Inquiry into the Education of Gifted and Talented Children 2001, provides a useful national summary of current provisions and problems as well as making positive recommendations (as yet not acted on)
Shaun Hately's Gifted Education in Australia - The result of a great deal of work collating available public information about the gifted programs offered at a large number of Australian schools with these grouped by area
Australian Dept of Education, Training and Youth Affairs - Federal department responsible for a large portion of funding to Australia's private and government schools
ACT Dept of Education and Community Services - Responsible for government school education in the ACT
Education Queensland - Responsible for government school education in Queensland, also their gifted education framework
NSW Dept of Education and Training - Responsible for government school education in NSW, also their gifted education policy
Northern Territory Dept of Education- Responsible for government school education in the NT
South Australia Dept of Education- Responsible for government school education in SA, with their gifted policy available.
Tasmania Dept of Education- Responsible for government school education in Tasmania, with their gifted policy available.
Victoria Dept of Education - Responsible for government school education in Victoria, also their gifted policy/ "Bright Futures" portal
Western Australia Dept of Education - Responsible for government school education in WA

Support groups & institutions

- Global focus

Center for Gifted Education Policy - Center endeavours to generate public awareness, advocacy, clinical applications & cutting edge research ideas related to the gifted.
Center for Talented Youth - A comprehensive university-based initiative established at John Hopkins University that promotes the academic ability of children and youth globally.
The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) - The worldwide mission of CEC is to improve educational outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities. This site is for parents and professionals.
Davidson Institute for Talent Development - an excellent site oriented towards the exceptionally and profoundly gifted
The Gifted Development Center - Dr. Linda Silverman and her staff have strong interest in both exceptional children and gifted learning disabled children.
Mensa Education and Research Foundation - US charity that awards college scholarships and gives awards for research and for some other projects relating to gifted children.
World Council for Gifted & Talented Children - International organisation to which most national gifted organisations are affiliated. Contains good international links collection.

- Australia

Austega's Gifted Resources - Provides some useful information and viewpoints for parents and educators of gifted children, with a general Australian focus.
GERRIC - The University of New South Wales' Gifted Education Research, Resource and Information Centre Studies with a range of programs and services for teachers, parents and gifted students across Australia.
Gifted and Talented Children's Association of SA (Inc) - The South Australian association of parents, educators and other interested individuals who are committed to ensuring that children of high ability are able to achieve their full potential.
Gifted and Talented Children's Association of WA (Inc) - The Western Australian association of parents and other interested individuals who are committed to ensuring that children of high ability are able to achieve their full potential.
Gifted Resource Centre - This non-profit operation, directed by psychologist Lesley Sword, provides a range of free information on its website, with particular focus areas on visual-spatial learners, emotional intensity, perfectionism, excitabilities and other psychological dimensions.
Home Education Association Australia - Promotes practice of home education in Australia. Also see Education Choices, a magazine for home educators that is free to HEA members.
NSW Association for Gifted & Talented Children Inc - Great site with a lot of information and links.
Northern Territory Association for Gifted & Talented Children
Queensland Association For Gifted and Talented Children - An open association of people who share a common interest in gifted and talented children. This site contains information about the Association and its objectives, books for sale, videos to hire, and plenty of resource material such as the identification of gifted children , and strategies for their parents and teachers.
TalentEd: The University of New England "This site is dedicated to the provision of material about the education of the gifted and talented. (edited by Stan Bailey & Linley Lloyd)"
Tasmanian Association for the Gifted Incorporated Home page for Tasmanian Association for the Gifted Incorporated
Victorian Association for Gifted & Talented Children
Virtual School for the Gifted.. - Provides online enrichment courses for gifted children operating from home or school settings

- United States

Belin-Blank Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development -
Education Program for Gifted Youth - Stanford Uni (USA)
Genius Denied - US site with a lobbying support focus, associated with the Davidson Institute for Talent Development
The Hollingworth Centre for Highly Gifted Children - A National Volunteer Resource and Support Network for Highly Gifted Children, their Families, Schools and Communities
National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented - With Dr Joseph Renzulli as Director, this is a collaborative effort involving several universities and school systems from all US states.

- Other countries

[Canada] The Centre for Gifted Education at University of Calgary - Canada

Conference papers

8th AAEGT Conference held in Brisbane, Australia, 2000
9th AAEGT Conference held in Sydney, Australia, 2002
Gifted World Conference 2003 held in Adelaide, August 2003

Discussion lists

Gifted Families is an Australian-based internet discussion list intended to provide online support.
Oz-Gifted (OG) is an Australasian-based internet discussion list for parents and teachers of gifted children.
Our Gifted Online Conferences - New US conference list for parents and others interested in discussing gifted issues.
egpg-gifted is an Australian support group for parents of exceptionally and profoundly gifted children - identified or otherwise. This group's focus aims to provide support and understanding for families who are dealing with the particular challenges of raising these kids.
GT-Families - Discussion of range of issues facing families raising gifted children.
GT-Special - Discussion of range of issues facing "twice-special" children, that is gifted children who also have a learning disability and/or other neurological problem.
TAGFAM is an internet mailing list for families of gifted children in traditional schools.
TAGMAX is an internet mailing list for families of gifted children in home schooling.
TAGPDQ is an internet mailing list for families of gifted children needing radical educational or social accommodation.

Last updated:10/10/07

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