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Gifted Child Today offers timely information about teaching and parenting gifted and talented children. The journal offers critical information for teachers and administrators involved with gifted children. Gifted Child Today includes articles about such topics as teaching strategies in gifted education, building a more effective gifted and talented program, and working with gifted children with learning disabilities. Gifted Child Today also offers thought-provoking articles for parents of gifted and talented children. The journal features information about raising a gifted child, how to tell if your child is gifted, and effective strategies for parenting a gifted child.

The journal includes articles from around the country featuring the very best ideas for teachers and parents of these special children. The magazine is packed with exciting practical ideas, such as:

• how to identify gifted children,
• how to build effective gifted and talented programs,
• helping gifted children with learning disabilities,
• building effective gifted education in math, science, language arts, and social studies, and
• designing quality learning activities for gifted children.

Each issue contains lesson ideas, program suggestions, new product announcements, and more. Gifted Child Today also includes informative and lively columns by today's most respected educators in the field. Tracy Cross, Ph.D., offers valuable suggestions about meeting the social and emotional needs of gifted students. And, the ever popular Jim Delisle, Ph.D., takes a contrary view of assumptions we make about gifted kids in his column, "Au Contraire."

Frequency: Quarterly Subscription
Audience: Educators and Parents

Download Sample Gifted Child Today Articles

• Cultural Diversity in Gifted Education

  In this Gifted Child Today column, Donna Ford, Ph.D., addresses a challenge faced by many parents of African American and Hispanic students who are identified for a gifted and talented program. Dr. Ford writes, “While these parents want their children to be challenged academically, they also want them to be happy, to fit in socially, and to have friends. Many culturally diverse parents are frustrated because they cannot find gifted education programs that are culturally diverse.”
  “A Challenge for Culturally Diverse Families of Gifted Children: Forced Choices Between Achievement or Affiliation” by Donna Ford, Ph.D. (Gifted Child Today, 27[3], 26–27, 65)



• Teaching Science to Gifted Children in the Primary Grades

  This article offers ways to teach gifted children about science through discovery and investigation. The author, Karen S. Meador, discusses the thinking skills students need in order to develop a basic scientific understanding, emphasizing the need for creative thinking within these endeavors. She also provides examples of activities that usedifferentiation that are appropriate for students in kindergarten, first, and second grade.
  “Thinking Creatively About Science: Suggestions for Primary Teachers” by Karen S. Meador (Gifted Child Today. 26[1], 25-29)



• Advocating for Your Gifted and Talented Program

  Schools are faced with budget cuts and the damaging effects that No Child Left Behind is having on gifted and talented programs. In this article, Kevin Besnoy explains that, in order to stem the tide of the reduction of gifted education services, teachers and parents of the gifted must become advocates and employ public relations strategies in and out of their own schools. The article goes on to explain how.
  “Using Public Relations Strategies to Advocate for Gifted Programming in Your School” by Kevin Besnoy (Gifted Child Today. 28[1], 32-37, 65)



• Underachievement Among Gifted Children

  Underachievement among gifted students seems like an oxymoron, explains Barbara Hoover-Schultz. However, the author explains that, for many teachers and parents of gifted kids it is a concern. This article explores the definitions, characteristics, causes, and available interventions.
  “Underachievement Among Gifted Children: Oxymoron or Educational Enigma” by Barbara Hoover-Schultz (Gifted Child Today. 28[2], 46-49)