Useful Weblinks
- Accelerated
Learning
This web site quotes it was developed because we live in a world where the
ability to absorb information rapidly and to think logically and creatively
are the most important skills that you can possess.
- Bloom's
Taxonomy
Designing and Managing MCQs: Appendix C: MCQs and Bloom's Taxonomy
- Internet
School Library Media Center (ISLMC)
This page has general information, lesson plans and bibliographies to help
educators interested in higher order thinking skills.
- DfES
Survey of Thinking Skills
The Department for Education and Employment commissioned a review and evaluation
of research into thinking skills and related areas.
- Introduction
to Gardner and the Theory of Multiple Intelligences
"Mind and Brain: Only the Right Connections" -
A review of What Makes Us Think? by Jean Pierre Changeux
and Paul Ricoeur.
"Science and Art, In Extremis: The writings of George
Klein" - with M. Csikszentmihalyi.
"An Education for the Future: The Foundation of Science
and Values" - Paper presented to The Royal Symposium
Convened by Her Majesty, Queen Beatrix, Amsterdam, March
13, 2001.
- NACE The
National Association for Gifted Children in Education
- NACE assists able and talented children
to reach their full potential by raising awareness as well as giving
support to teachers and other professionals and the wider educational
community.
- Able children need to be recognised
and encouraged to facilitate their development personally, socially
and intellectually.
- Curriculum enrichment and extension
must be an integral part of the broad, balanced, differentiated and
appropriate provision available for every child.
- Education for able children is an urgent
issue that needs you
- National
Curriculum Guidance for gifted and talented
This guidance is for teachers, coordinators and others involved in teaching
gifted and talented pupils in the context of an inclusive curriculum. About
this guidance.
- Philosophy
- Dialogue Works
Dialogue is more than just talking: it is a deliberate and constructive engagement
with the views, values and feelings of others. It involves a readiness to
change one’s perceptions and purposes, and thus plays a vital part in
the growth and fulfilment of individuals. It is also essential for the building
of common purposes and understandings in teams or groups of any kind. Developing
such dialogue requires care and commitment. It is an art to be practised,
rather than a quick fix...
- Resources
on Multiple Intelligences
Books by Howard Gardner, author of The Theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI)
- Robert
Fisher's Thinking Skills site
Robert Fisher has taught for more than twenty years in England and abroad,
including Ethiopia and Hong Kong. In that time he has taught students of
all ages and abilities from nursery to adult. For five years he was headteacher
of a primary school in the London Borough of Richmond.
- Thinking
Skills Vocabulary and Definitions
Can thinking skills be taught? Perhaps, but there is no question that they
can be learned. Thinking skills are one of the most important, yet inadequately
implemented areas of the curriculum. This site lists vocabulary and the definitions
are intended to help the prospective teacher sort out the various thinking
skills and terminology associated with curriculum and instructional decision
making. When preparing lessons, almost without exception, good teachers seek
to help students acquire thinking skills that relate to the content of the
lesson and, if possible, extend beyond it. Something to remember is that
if your students aren't thinking about what you're saying or doing, you are
not communicating effectively.
- National
Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth The National Academy for
Gifted and Talented Youth (NAGTY) was established by government in
2002. Its role was to drive forward improvements in gifted and talented
education by developing a national, government supported, catalyst
that can provide leadership and support for professionals working
in this field. Its rol
- Xcalibre resources
for the gifted The Xcalibre website is a subject-specific directory
of educational resources for teachers of gifted and talented pupils
aged 4 to 19.
- Young Gifted and Talented (YG& T) New - the national programme for gifted and talented education managed by the CfBT Education Trust on behalf of the DCSF. The web site has different channels for Government, local authorities, parents, learners, schools etc.
Useful links for Parents
There is a growing body of information available on the internet for
parents about gifted and talented pupils. Amongst the many useful information,
support and advice sites are the following:
- Family
Education, Gifted and Talented
- Mensa
This site "provides a forum for intellectual exchange among members.
Its activities include the exchange of ideas by lectures, discussions, journals,
special-interest groups, and local, regional, national, and international
gatherings; the investigations of members' opinions and attitudes; and assistance
to researchers, inside and outside Mensa, in projects dealing with intelligence
or Mensa."
- Multiple
Intelligences
The theory of multiple intelligences was developed in 1983 by Dr. Howard
Gardner, professor of education at Harvard University. It suggests that the
traditional notion of intelligence, based on I.Q. testing, is far too limited.
Instead, Dr. Gardner proposes eight different intelligences to account for
a broader range of human potential in children and adults.
- National Association
for Gifted Children
NAGC is a non-profit organization of parents, teachers, educators, community
leaders and other professionals who unite to address the unique needs of
all children and youth with demonstrated gifts and talents as well as those
who may be able to develop their talent potential with appropriate educational
experiences.
- The
National Association for Gifted Children (GB)
 The
Association recognises that the needs of gifted children
are best met when parents, students, education professionals,
schools and colleges are able to share a common forum and
gain wider understanding of home/school issues.
- Tomorrow's
Achievers
 To
mark its 125th anniversary the Gabbitas, Truman and Thring
Educational Trust has launched the Tomorrow's Achievers
initiative. Gifted youngsters are not normally assumed
to be a needy case. The evidence vividly shows otherwise.
This new project gives a much neglected minority the essential
support that is so often lacking. Visit their web site
to find out more and about the Masterclasses they
are running.
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This
is a nonprofit international organization, dedicated to
the needs of gifted and talented children throughout the
world.
