The Center for Gifted is a non-profit organization providing enriching education to students in the form of science, math, technology, the arts and humanities. Programs are designed specifically to meet the unique educational needs of advanced learners in an environment that is supportive and nurturing of their individual gifts and talents.
Founder and Director of The Center for Gifted and Midwest Torrance Center for Creativity, Joan Franklin Smutny welcomes thousands of bright and talented children, preschool-12th grade, to her programs year-round. She teaches creative writing to students at her programs, as well as gifted education courses to graduate students at the university level. She is editor of the Illinois Association for Gifted
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Programs provide new and unique perspectives on topics students may have studied during the school year. The Center offers programs, workshops, research, and services to parents and the community reflecting creativity and academic rigor. Creative materials, activities, and strategies evidencing critical and productive thinking are inherent in the Center’s design to enable students to think more formatively and perceptively. Hands-on activities and discovery of inventive modes of participation encourage the development of originality and imagination.
Several one day workshops and week long programs are offered through The Center for Gifted both during the school year and in the summer. Throughout the summer, three programs ranging from one to three weeks are offered: Summer Wonders (preK-8), Worlds of Wisdom and Wonder (preK-8), and Project
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Project staff includes outstanding professionals, experts in their field who communicate effectively with students and reflect a genuine passion for learning. From mathematics Golden Apple Award winner, Carol Fisher, to professional Los Angeles filmmaker, Johnny White, expertise is key.
Occasionally, specific classes in the science category have rotating staff. A teacher may teach a class for a year or more at a time, but If they decide to switch, another teacher would take over. Currently, the classes that acquire rotating staff and that are available for positions include Chemistry Lab, Combustion and Pyrotechnics, Engineering Escapades, and Physics Olympics. In addition, permanent teachers are also needed for Astronomy: To the Galaxy and Beyond!, Directing For The Stage/Tech Theatre, Entrepreneurship, Music Composition, and Psychology: The Human Brain.
Additionally, If you have any ideas for new classes that you feel would appeal to the target age group, please view the example below which includes the course submission format. (Add how approval takes time and is a long process/add description goes on project
Runco, M. A. (2005). Creative giftedness. In R. J. Sternberg & J. E. Davidson (Eds.), Conceptions of giftedness (pp. 295-311). New York: Cambridge University Press.
The problem associated with how students are chosen to join a gifted and talented program stems from the way that we define giftedness. Because there are countless ways in which any individual can define talent, the government created a federal task force in 1972 to study gifted education in order to standardize the way in which schools choose students for and implement their gifted and talented programs. The task force’s results are known as the Marland Report and include much information as a result of their research, including a decision that a public school’s gifted and talented programs should aim to serve between 3 and 5 percent o...
Whitney, C. S. & Hirsch, G. (2011). Helping Gifted Children Soar. A Practical Guide for
The Gifted program exists to provide more academic opportunities for those who qualify as “gifted.” “’Gifted means performing or demonstrating the potential for performing at significantly higher levels of accomplishment in one or more academic fields due to intellectual ability, when compared to others of similar age, experience, and environment’” (Quoted in “Gifted”). In order to make it into the program the student must show higher intellectual ability than the average student at his or her age, but what determines that factor? The student must take a multidimensional test and score in the 98th percentile. However, the most weighted part of the test remains an average IQ test. Intelligence test scores should not be the primary qualification for admittance into the gifted program. They should not remain the primary qualification because it allows the minorities and the economically disadvantaged to be underrepresented, it proves insufficient when compared to other means of testing, and it fails to accurately reflect a student’s intelligence.
Isbell, R. & Raines, S. (2003). Creativity and the arts with young children. New York: Thompson Delmar Learning.
Runco, M. A. (2005). Creative giftedness. In R. J. Sternberg & J. E. Davidson (Eds.), Conceptions of giftedness (pp. 295-311). New York: Cambridge University Press.
The Research Model was created at the William and Mary Center for Gifted Education. This model was created to strengthen the student’s critical thinking skills. The Research Model provides the student with an issue of importance and gives the opportunity to explore its content individually or in small groups. The student explores a issue of significance through an eight-step process. In the eight steps there are a series of questions that are to be answered through the process of research. The journey through this model begins with identifying an issue or problem. Next, students are to research the ...
There are a whole lot of programs or curriculums out there that try to talk about the environmental and academic needs of children. In this paper, I will try my best to discuss the five components of the Creative Curriculum framework, as well as the philosophies, theories, and research behind its foundation.
Research shows that many gifted female students can become bored if school is not challenging and if they do not use their full potential. During the interview, Hope was talkative but very serious during the entire interview. She made an attempt to tell a joke. I observed her less than average sense of humor. One of Hope’s cognitive traits is her excellent memory.
One of the most controversial things about gifted and talented education is the criterion educators use to identify the gifted and talented. In the past, a student’s intelligence, based on an I.Q. score, was considered the best way to determine whether or not they qualified as gifted. As a result of using this method of identification, many gifted and talented students are not discovered nor are they placed in the appropriate programs to develop their abilities. Talents in the arts or an excellent ability to write are not measured on an I.Q. test but are abilities that may certainly qualify a student as gifted or talented.
To begin with Sir Ken Robinson states that “creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence” and therefore the education system should help children to realise their creative potential, unfortunately many are being displaced from their own true talents. Formal instructions and inquiry based learning are essential for creative education. There are some times when it is appropriate for the teacher to give formal instruction in skills a...
Creative Arts in early childhood education refers to children’s participation in a variety of activities that engage their minds, bodies and senses (Sinclair, Jeanneret & O’Toole, 2012; Kearns, 2017); to inspire all children with the opportunity for creative and imaginative expression. Duffy (2006) and Sinclair et al. (2012) state that creativity is the process where children use their imagination to problem solve, develop new ideas, independence and flexibility to accomplish tasks. Furthermore, when educators foster creativity, they are assisting children in making meaning through play and developing their growing capacity to communicate, collaborate and think critically to meet the demands of life in the 21st century (Duffy, 2006; Korn-Bursztyn, 2012; Sinclair et al., 2012).
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