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Monthly Archives: March 2013
The following summary was produced by Catherine Riordan The Gifted Phoenix Manifesto for Gifted Education was the topic for discussion at #gtie on Sunday 24th March. To use his own words “Gifted Phoenix is the social media pseudonym of Tim Dracup a UK-based consultant in – and commentator on – […]
The Gifted Phoenix Manifesto for Gifted Education – Chat Summary
I have been calling for some time for an global, organised approach to advocating to meet the education needs of gifted children. It’s a big dream in part because it is global and in part because there are many different views within the ‘global gifted community’ about how we should […]
The Gifted Phoenix Manifesto for Gifted Education
Gifted Students-Maynooth 2013 Reading Linda Silverman Giftedness 101 (The Psych 101 Series) Susan Wibebrenner & Dina Brulles The Cluster Grouping Handbook: A Schoolwide Model: How to Challenge Gifted Students and Improve Achievement for All [With CDROM] Susan Winebrenner Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom Joan Freeman GIFTED CHILDREN GROWN UP (NACE/Fulton Publication) […]
NUIM PDE Presentation 13th March 2013
The title is otherwise known as the Einstein Principle – a scientific theory should be simple, but no simpler. What if their was a simple formula to teaching and learning? What if there was a simple formula for getting students to learn?There’s an interesting phrase – ‘getting students to learn‘; really what […]
Simple, But No Simpler
The title is a quote is from Erich Fromm. It says a lot about why I do what I do. It’s now just over two years since I established Gifted and Talented Ireland as a blog to front my advocacy efforts on the needs of gifted children. There have been […]