Resources for Educators

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Resources for Educators

To appropriately identify, develop, and nurture individual talent, educators at every level -- from the classroom to the district office -- must understand the strategies, practices, and tools. Once understood, you need up-to-date information, analysis of the latest education research, and access to professional development opportunities and resources. That's where NAGC comes in! Don't we want every student to reach their highest potential? 

Serving High-Ability Learners

• Gifted Education Practices

Gifted education strategies make a meaningful difference for high-ability students. Learn more about what gifted education in the classroom looks like.

• Pre-K to Grade 12 Gifted Programming Standards

Classroom teachers are the primary agent for identifying and serving gifted and talented students in our nation's schools. Read and learn more about the programming standards today.

• Professional Development   

NAGC leads the way for targeted and relevant education and training, offering webinars with national experts, the annual convention with hundreds of sessions in a wide variety of themes, and connections through Networks.

• Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and Gifted Students.

The CCSS and NGSS call for general education teachers to recognize and address student learning differences, and incorporate rigorous content and application of knowledge through higher-order thinking skills, but the nature of advanced work beyond the standards is not discussed.

• Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

STEM issues remain in the forefront of the discussion of U.S. competitiveness and the role of K-12 education in ensuring a pipeline of advanced talent.

Exploring NAGC Publications for Educators

• Teaching for High Potential

THP is a quarterly publication designed with educators in mind. Each issue is filled with practical guidance and classroom-based materials to help you better understand and challenge your high-potential students. Scan through the library of THP articles and columns organized by topic and theme. Members have access to the entire archive of THP issues.

• The Teacher's Corner

This monthly column is found in the member e-newsletter Compass Points and provides an "In The Trenches" focus suggesting books, websites, professional papers, and other relevant resources to use in the classroom or for your own professional development and enjoyment.

• Connecting for High Potential

Written by and for teachers and parents, Connecting for High Potential provides practical advice for parents, teachers, and community members to work together to support high-ability students.

• The NAGC Online Store

View the best selection of books and other materials for teachers seeking to help students reach their full potential. (Members receive generous discounts.)

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Supporting Families
Gifted students don't have an on/off switch! Share trusted advice and resources with your students' families that help them support their child outside the classroom.

Building your Career

Looking for a new position in the field of gifted and talented? The NAGC Career Center offers access to the best employers and jobs in the profession.  

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The Teacher's Corner

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Five apps to help educators incorporate augmented reality

At the Augmented Reality Development Lab (ARDL), from virtual reality developer Digital Tech Frontier, lets users display relevant information at the appropriate time and location during an AR experience, which results in virtual 3-D objects appearing in the real world.

Students and teachers look through a viewing device or at a monitor to see virtual objects such as planets, volcanoes, the human heart, or dinosaurs embedded within their real-world environment—and they can interact with and manipulate those objects to receive associated information.

Five apps to help educators incorporate augmented reality:

1. GeoGuesser: Using a phone, tablet or computer, a player is placed in a spot anywhere in the world using Google Maps. Exploring and looking for clues such as geographic signs, landmarks, and climate, the player has to guess where they are.

2. Elements 4D: Elements 4D uses augmented reality to help students explore elements and chemical reactions. To use the app, first print special element blocks on standard letter-size paper in your classroom. Cut the shapes out, follow the instructions to fold them into cubes, and glue them together to hold them in place. Once the blocks are ready, you can hold them in front of your device camera so the elements they represent can be viewed in augmented reality.

3. Quiver Apps: Students color on printed pages, then view their drawing through a phone via the app. Drawings will come to life and can be paired with creative writing assignments or other approaches to engage students.

4. Fetch! Lunch Rush: In this Augmented Reality, multi-player game, you need to keep up with lunch orders from Ruff’s movie crew. The challenge is keeping track of how many pieces of sushi everyone wants.

5. ZooBurst: ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone create an augmented reality 3D pop-up book.

About the Author: 

Laura Devaney

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Laura Devaney is the Director of News for eSchool Media. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. When she isn't wrangling her two children, Laura enjoys running, photography, home improvement, and rooting for the Terps. Find Laura on Twitter: @eSN_Laura http://twitter.com/eSN_Laura

The Unique Inner Lives of Gifted Children - Article

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Article: The Unique Inner Lives of Gifted Children

An article describing the characteristics that differentiate gifted individuals and discussing how those characteristics affect children’s educational needs.  By Linda Silverman, an expert on giftedness and testing, and speaker at Helios’ Fall 2011 event, “The Unique Inner Lives of Gifted Children:  What Educators, Parents, and Therapists Should Know. Download this article.

Author Bio:  Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist.  She directs the Institute for the Study of Advanced Development, and its subsidiary, the Gifted Development Center (www.gifteddevelopment.com) in Denver, Colorado. Over 6,000 children have been assessed at the Gifted Development Center in the last 32 years.  She also founded Visual-Spatial Resource (www.visualspatial.org).  Her Ph.D. is in educational psychology and special education from the University of Southern California.  For nine years, she served on the faculty of the University of Denver in counseling psychology and gifted education.  She co-chaired the NAGC Task Force on IQ Interpretation, during which research was conducted leading to extended norms on the WISC-IV.  She has been studying the psychology and education of the gifted since 1961 and has written over 300 articles, chapters and books, including Counseling the Gifted and Talented, Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner and Advanced Development:  A Collection of Works on Gifted Adults.