Futuristics shares several features with gifted education--higher level thinking skills, creativity, learning outside the classroom, enrichment, and affective needs. Futuristics promotes a positive image of the future, an important aspect for gifted students who have been found to have a rather pessimistic view of the future. (CL)

A rationale is presented for developing gifted education projects that are differentiated from the regular curriculum. A specific activity, called "Let's Build a Sailboat," is described to illustrate guiding principles for success in student project development. The project taught planning and management skills to junior high school gifted…

Prevention of behavior problems among gifted students is considered in terms of typical behavior problems of the gifted, teacher behavior and classroom climate, and the importance of affective education. Teacher behaviors which structure the classroom for success are listed as are characteristics which encourage underachievement. (DB)

The Retrieval and Acceleration of Promising Young Handicapped and Talented program, part of the Joint Early Education Program for the Handicapped, identifies and educates preschool children who are both handicapped and gifted or talented. (PHR)

Seven author-contributed papers focus on excellence in urban special education schools. Libby Goodman reviews the isolation of special education teachers and children, in "The Effective School Movement and Special Education," while Dan L. Peterson et al. trace the implications for the Seattle School District of the efforts described in…

Thirteen tips for teaching gifted students include: provide a safe environment, organize resources, understand needs, promote peer interaction, be a "child stretcher" vary content, provide tools, vary products, investigate real problems, and find uniqueness. (DB)

One hundred fifty-eight gifted and talented adolescents received full or partial scholarships for a summer of on the job training and apprenticeships in scientific disciplines with exploratory expeditions all over the world. (DB)

Suggestions are offered of ways in which teachers of gifted elementary students can provide nonprograming computer activities even when limited computer resources and expertise are available. Among activities noted are word processing and adventure games. (CL)

The article presents a set of enrichment activities about trees which is intended for use by regular and special classroom teachers of primary grade gifted children. Activities are broken down into activities for the whole class and activities for individual gifted children. (DB)

Individualizing through directed group instruction can reduce preparation time while increasing behavior control, social interaction, motivation, and self esteem for handicapped and gifted students. Examples are provided in listening comprehension; geography; capitalization, punctuation, and parts of speech; and place value. (CL)

A colloge credit course in computer math for 12 gifted secondary students and their parents focused on problem-solving strategies and encouraged teamwork and communication among parents and children. (CL)

Guidelines are offered for facilitating independent or small group investigations by gifted and talented students. Steps include exploring student interest, developing the chosen topic, using the management plan, implementing and monitoring the project, and helping students with evaluation. (CL)

A rationale is presented for the use of bibliotherapy with students who are gifted. Teacher responsibilities and the bibliotherapeutic process are explained. The process is then applied in a unit on perfectionism in literature for high school students and for elementary and middle school students. (JDD)

These strategies for teaching spelling to gifted students focus on student choice of words, personal dictionaries, cloze passages, categorizing or word sorting, words borrowed from other languages, word etymology, multiple meaning words, and onomatopoetic words. (JDD)

A program model for gifted preschool children incorporates a differentiated curriculum into an open classroom environment. The Structure of Intellect model serves as the basis for classroom activities (10 examples of which are provided) which stress creative and productive thinking. (CL)