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Each issue of Teaching for High Potential (THP) is filled with practical guidance and classroom-based materials for educators striving to understand and challenge their high potential students. Open the pages to explore timely and applicable research-based practice that can be readily implemented.

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Teaching for High Potential--May 2020

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Features Articles

  • A Model for Program Evaluation and Improvement, Kimberly M. McCormick, Keri M. Guilbault
  • Fostering Creative Productivity for Creatively Gifted Students, Omar Alsamani
  • Empowering Student Autonomy Through Inquiry and Reflection, Sarah Newell & Cara Nyvall

Columns

  • From the Editor: Giving up Control, Jeff Danielian
  • Special Populations: Successful & Innovative Programs for Gifted Students of Color, Joy Lawson Davis
  • Imathination: Tools for Promoting Mathematical Discourse (Part 1), Janine Firmender
  • The Digital Ecosystem: Standing Against the Online White Nationalist Movement, Kevin D. Besnoy
  • Taking the Lead: Making Change with Micro-evaluations, Ruth Lyons
  • Socially Scientific: Inspiring the Next African American Scientist, Alicia Cotabish
  • Buried Under Books: From Cover to Cover? Don’t Forget the Back Matter!, Susannah Richards

Teaching for High Potential--February 2020

Cover of February 2020 THP

Feature Articles

Columns

  • From the Editor: All for Them, Jeff Danielian
  • Curriculum Cafe: The Evolution of Gifted Education Curriculum, Elissa F. Brown
  • The Digital Ecosystem: Creating Learning Libraries, Kevin D. Besnoy
  • Taking the Creative Leap: The Healing Benefits of Creativity, Sarah E. Sumners & Margaret Easom Hines
  • Imathination: Using Number Talks to Foster Mathematical Creativity, Janine Firmender
  • Socially Scientific: 10 EdTech Science Trends in 2020, Alicia Cotabish
  • Teachers Engaging Parents: One Teacher’s Annoying Parent is Another Child’s Advocate, Todd Stanley

Teaching for High Potential--November 2019

Feature Articles

Columns

  • From the Editor: Gifted Females Part 2, Jeff Danielian & C. Matthew Fugate
  • Taking the Creative Leap: Using Creativity with Gifted Females in Dealing with Stress, Sarah E. Sumners & Margaret Easom Hines
  • Special Populations: Removing Barriers for Gifted Black Females: Four Situations to Ponder, Joy Lawson Davis
  • Buried Under Books: Hooray for Women! A Year-Round Celebration, Susannah Richards
  • Socially Scientific: Engineering and the Gender Gap: Improving Interest, Debbie Dailey
  • Taking the Lead: Leading Gifted Girls to Redefine Their Definition of Success, Ruth Lyons
  • Digital Ecosystem: Gifted Girls and Coding, Kevin D. Besnoy

 

Teaching for High Potential--August 2019

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Feature Articles

  • Executive Dysfunction: Strategies to Assist Gifted Students, Tara Nyikos, Dianne Mullet & Anne Rinn
  • The "What" of Effective GT Professional Development, Kathryn Schaeffer
  • What to do When Perfectionism Goes from Healthy to Destructive, Kimberly Williams
  • Biographies as Tools for Mentoring Young Writers, Elizabeth Fairweather

Columns

  • From the Editor: An Atmosphere of Learning, Jeff Danielian
  • Taking the Lead: Thinking Outside the Box, Ruth Lyons
  • iMathination: Problem Solving with Purpose, Janine Firmender
  • Socially Scientific: Translating Engineering Soft Skills to the K-12 Classroom, Alicia Cotabish, Debbie Dailey & Jason Trumble
  • Taking the Creative Leap: Creative Spaces for Students from Diverse Backgrounds, Sarah E. Sumners & Margaret Easom Hines
  • Unwrapping the Gifted: Night and Day: One Gifted Child's Contrasting School Experiences, Tamara Fisher
  • Special Populations: A Social Justice Issue, Joy Lawson Davis

Teaching for High Potential--May 2019

Feature Articles

  • Special Considerations for Giftedness and Growth Mindset, Emily Mofield and Megan Parker Peters
  • Listening to Gifted Students: Inspiration from the Longleaf Pine Tree, Cindy Gilson
  • All for One: The Essential Art of Collaboration, Christine Deitz

Columns

  • Time for Something "New"—From the Editor, Jeff Danielian
  • Supporting Gifted Students from Diverse Backgrounds—Special Populations, Benna Haas
  • Who are They?—Unwrapping the Gifted, Tamara Fisher
  • Empowering Students as Program Posers—iMathination, Janine Firmender
  • Dodging the Deep Fake—The Digital Ecosystem, Kevin D. Besnoy
  • #WeAreReaders: Creating a Literacy Climate in Your School—Buried under Books, Susannah Richards
  • Market Your G/T Programming to the Masses, Taking the Lead, Ruth Lyons
  • It's O.K. to be Gifted—From the Attic, Jim Delisle

Teaching for High Potential--February 2019

Teaching for High Potential Cover February 2019

Feature Articles

  • Servicing Gifted and Talented Students at the Secondary Level, Christopher Galloway
  • Challenging Mathematically Gifted Middle School Students, Elizabeth Gieseking

Columns

  • From the Editor: All That We Have, Jeff Danielian
  • Keep the Learning Going: Promoting Incubation and Creative Thinking, Sarah Sumners & Margaret E. Hines
  • Imathination: A Few Parting Thoughts, Scott Chamberlin
  • Creating Culturally Responsive Environments, Susannah Richards
  • Bringing Culture into the Gifted Education Classroom, Joy Lawson Davis
  • Producing Authentic Researchers Beyond the Science Classroom, Alicia Cotabish
  • The Goldilocks Principle: Finding the Just Right Zone, Tamara Fisher
  • Creating Micro-Videos, Kevin D. Besnoy
  • Whistling Past the Cemetery, Joe Renzulli

 

 

Teaching for High Potential--November 2018

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Featured Articles

  • Should We Still Worry about the Futures of Gifted and Talented Gifted Girls?
  • What I Want My Teachers to Know: Reflections from Gifted Adolescent Girls
  • Attention Divergent Hyperactive Giftedness: A New Perspective on Gifted Girls with ADHD

Columns

  • From the Guest Editor: Looking to the Future
  • Nevertheless, She Created: Creative Females in the Classroom
  • Discovering Women Who Shaped History
  • Scratching the Surface: Hacking the Classroom through Coding
  • Females in Mathematics: Engage Them
  • Guiding Gifted Girls
  • Grabbing the Baton

 

 

Teaching for High Potential--August 2018

Teaching for High Potential Cover August 2018

Featured Articles

Columns

  • From the Guest Editor: Curriculum Matters
  • Resources to Accelerate and Advance Curriculum
  • Mathematics Teachers Facilitate Learning: The Curriculum Does Not
  • Curriculum: The Importance of Access
  • Curriculum's Impact on the Social/Emotional Needs of the Gifted
  • Using Torrance's Creative Positives to Make Curricular Decisions
  • Protecting Your Personal Information
  • Leaders are Learners
  • Smart Cookies

 

Teaching for High Potential--May 2018

Teaching for High Potential Cover May 2018

Featured Articles

  • A Talent for Tinkering: Developing Talents in Children from Low-Income Households Through Engineering Curriculum?
  • Making the Most of Classroom Surveys: Five Steps to Help You Get the Ball Rolling
  • Creative Play, the First Step toward STEM Expertise

Columns

  • From the Editor: Moving Forward
  • The Value of Basic Mathematics Facts
  • 100 Days, 100 Books
  • Addressing the Gifted Gap: Three Strategies
  • Creating a Visual Science Classroom
  • A Transition to Leadership
  • Defining Roles in Social Media

Teaching for High Potential--February 2018

Feature Articles

  • Starting a High School Mentoring Program
  • Critical Reflection for Critical Change: Unearthing Assumptions in the Classroom

Columns

  • From the Editor
  • Time Will Tell
  • Cultivating a Climate of Creativity
  • Don't Forget the Inspiration!
  • Utilizing YouTube for Immersive VR Science Learning
  • High Level Questioning and Cognition in Advanced Curriculum
  • 3E: Gifted, Black and Having Special Academic and Behavioral Needs
  • Vulnerable Personal Digital Ecosystems
  • A Conversation about Giftedness

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