A little while ago I had the pleasure of chatting with Jeff Shoemaker via Skype. One of the things that stuck me about teachers of gifted children is that no matter how much training or experience we have, nothing beats mulling over with other teachers approaches to meeting the needs of […]
Gifted Awareness
As plans come together for this year’s Gifted Education Awareness Week, here is a quick review of last year’s GEAW thanks to Dazzled and Frazzled’s blog. This year’s GEAW plans will move Gifted awareness further along the road. New parents support groups have formed thanks to GTNetwork Ireland, there […]
Gifted Education Awareness Week – Looking Back to Look Forward
The 3rd Gifted Education Awareness Week in Ireland runs from Monday 22nd to Friday 28th September 2013. Gifted Education Awareness Week is an initiative of Gifted and Talented Ireland and is promoted through this site and Gifted and Talented Network Ireland. The aim of Gifted Education Awareness Week is to raise awareness […]
Gifted Education Awareness Week 2013
I heard a story from one of my lecturers when training to be a teacher, which illustrates possibly one of the most important aspects of teaching – perhaps even more important than the actually teaching – that is, the quality of the relationship between the teacher and the students. The […]
The Power of Positive Regard
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 […]
Being Here Is Not Enough
Seth Godin has a trippy blog and a few other sites. He has written 12 bestsellers that have been translated into 33 languages. I’ve been reading Linchpin and quite enjoying some of the messages he offers about being an artist at whatever you do. Anyway, all was well and good until […]
Sething It All Wrong
The 3rd National Gifted Education Awareness Week is coming soon We are currently seeking appropriate sponsors for this event. If that is you, please email peterlydon@iol or gtnetworkireland@gmail.com
3rd National Gifted Education Awareness Week – 2013
David McWilliams is an economist who resisted buying into the Celtic Tiger mentality and saw the boom for what it was; a house build on debt. He has written several books which could loosely be called ‘pop economics’ and as an economics graduate myself I have found myself in agreement […]
Lance the Myths of Giftedness
Peter Csermely is President of the European Council for High Ability and is working on the development of a European Talent Support Network. Here he answers a few questions on his background and work and on the Budapest Declaration of Talent Support. 1. Tell us a little about […]
Help Drive Gifted Support in Ireland and Europe
Thanks to Roya Klingner of the Global Centre for Gifted Education for the invitation to write a post as part of Gifted Education Awareness Week in Namibia. In December 2010 I proposed on #gtchat on Twitter that there should be an Global Gifted Education Awareness Day. From participating in #gtchat, […]