Category: Education & Homeschooling

This post argues profoundly gifted children often need acceleration and individualized, interest-driven learning. Unschooling, mentors and access to higher-level materials help meet cognitive needs while balancing social-emotional development. Parents must adapt, support specialization, and accept there is no one-size-fits-all formula.

Research with gifted Year 8 students, parents and teachers found like-mindedness centers on similar thinking processes rather than identical outcomes. Gifted students value choice, challenge and control in peer groupings; shared thinking fosters understanding, empathy, deep learning and high-quality friendships while reducing boredom and frustration in mixed-ability settings.

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.