The author reviews the nature of stress and the individual's response to it and considers ways in which stress affects gifted children. Attempts to categorize or classify types of stressors are reviewed. Gifted children face additional demands of academic stressors (including unchallenging and repetitious curricula) and personal-social stressors…

The paper outlines identification and social problems regarding the gifted bilingual bicultural student and offers suggestions to parents and teachers for alleviating those problems. Noted among problems in identification is that minority students may not exhibit behaviors and characteristics which are recognized as manifestation of talents and…

Techniques for encouraging young children to discover the purpose and use of maps are discussed. Motor activity and topological studies form a base from which the teacher and children can build a mapping program of progressive sophistication. Concepts important to mapping include boundaries, regions, exteriors, interiors, holes, order, point of…

Ideas of educational psycholinguists Frank Smith and Kenneth Goodman can be combined with the ideas presented in current basal reader manuals to help teachers teach reading more effectively. Since reading and speaking are parallel processes, teachers may invite children to "read" with them, hearing the melody of language as they point to…

To avoid confusing children, a reading approach from the very beginning should stress logical relationships based on experiences. Drilling words, sounds, or even sentences should be avoided since these practices lead to deviant schemes. A lifetime scheme involves teaching a child a process. Children need to learn a process by which they can…

This brief paper describes how staff at the United Methodist Nursery School in Naperville, Illinois structured leavetaking experiences, such as school entry and exit times, for children, parents and staff to reduce problems associated with separation, attachment and loss. (Author/RH)