This post highlights several blogs for teachers of gifted students, summarizing resources and notable posts. It recommends Teacher-y Confessions, Gifted-Ed Connections, One World Gifted, and Schooling the Gifted as practical sources of classroom strategies, insights into giftedness, and links useful to educators and parents.
This post reviews several blogs about giftedness, highlighting topics such as empathy, multi-potentiality, social connection, homeschooling, emotional support, and twice-exceptional challenges. It summarizes each blog’s focus, offers links for readers, and invites suggestions of other giftedness blogs by emailing editor@sengifted.org.
The author highlights online resources that connect gifted adults, emphasizing that the internet reduces isolation. The post introduces blogs such as Your Rainforest Mind and Discovering Your Awesome, describing their focus on self-understanding, emotional support, connection, and practical guidance for gifted adults seeking community and insight.
This post advises parents and educators on guiding children’s social media use: understand platforms, protect privacy (disable geo-location), model respectful behavior, set rules like limiting contacts and sharing passwords, and use educational resources and curricula to teach digital citizenship and safe online practices.
This post lists key resources for parents of gifted children, including foundational books, large online hubs like Hoagies, communities (mailing lists, Facebook groups, Twitter chats), research and articles, social-emotional reading, testing guidance, games and reading lists. It emphasizes support and that parents are not alone.
The author explains four key lessons about gifted education: that giftedness varies in level and needs different options; many educators lack training; gifted students can also have learning disabilities; and gifted programs need appropriate acceleration rather than superficial enrichment. Parents and teachers must advocate and find suitable resources.
