1.++Who+is+the+Gifted+Learner?

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Gifted education is not what people think it is. Gifted learners are not test scores. They are not perfect. They are not //easier // to teach. They are kids. With different learning needs. Who will give up if they are not challenged. Who rarely get a place in educational laws. Who sometimes give up and drop out of school. Who are waiting for change. Who now sit hoping, wishing, to learn. To grow. To think. To climb out of the box. To change the world. To get something different. Not because they are privileged, elite, or want “better.” But because they want the one thing that every kid, in every school, in the world deserves. To learn and grow. from Krissy Venosdale http://venspired.com/?p=2309

** Identifying The Gifted **
from http://www.ri.net/gifted_talented/character.html
 * 1) ==== Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read. ====
 * 2) ==== Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school. ====
 * 3) ==== When Thomas Edison was a boy, his teachers told him he was too stupid to learn anything. ====
 * 4) ==== F.W.Woolworth got a job in a dry goods store when he was 21. But his employers would not let him wait on a customer because he "Didn't have enough sense." ====
 * 5) ==== A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he had "No good ideas" ====
 * 6) ==== Caruso's music teacher told him "You can't sing, you have no voice at all." ====
 * 7) ==== Leo Tolstoy flunked out of college. ====
 * 8) ==== Verner Von Braun flunked 9th grade algebra. ====
 * 9) ==== Admiral Richard E. Byrd had been retired from the navy, as, "Unfit for service" Until he flew over both poles. ====
 * 10) ==== Louis Pasteur was rated as mediocre in chemistry when he attended the Royal College ====
 * 11) ==== Abraham Lincoln entered The Black Hawk War as a captain and came out a private ====
 * 12) ==== Fred Waring was once rejected from high school chorus. ====
 * 13) ==== Winston Churchill failed the sixth grade. ====

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Please read the "myth" that you were given. Share your "myth" with your table mates. Present findings to whole group.
Common Myths in Gifted Education from the National Association for the Gifted Child

Is it a Cheetah?

Blogs about Gifted Learners
Crushing Tall Poppies

Gifted Guru

Unexpected Gifts

National Society for the Gifted & Talented

Ramblings of a Gifted Teacher

Byrdseed Gifted

Brian Housand

**Articles about the Gifted Learner**


























Articles about the School-wide Cluster Model






Acceleration of Highly Gifted Students
Acceleration Institute

Handouts from Jim Delisle