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  • #032 [GTN Awareness Week] Unpacking Homes Schooling (& Maths) with Barry Gelston

    #032 [GTN Awareness Week] Unpacking Homes Schooling (& Maths) with Barry Gelston
  • IMHO – Learning Math​ and the Gifted Identity

    IMHO – Learning Math​ and the Gifted Identity
  • IMHO – Leading with Love and Kindness

    IMHO – Leading with Love and Kindness
  • IMHO – When working harder doesn’t work

    IMHO – When working harder doesn’t work
  • IMHO – Gifted Learners, who are we?

    IMHO – Gifted Learners, who are we?
  • IMHO – What is this “Gifted Underachievers”?

    IMHO – What is this “Gifted Underachievers”?

Gifted Education Articles

#032 [GTN Awareness Week] Unpacking Homes Schooling (& Maths) with Barry Gelston

December 11, 2021 By Barry Gelston, M.Ed.

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IMHO – Learning Math​ and the Gifted Identity

June 16, 2019 By Barry Gelston, M.Ed.

Like every other kid in the world who is unique like a snowflake, so is each gifted kid, except that each snowflake is a lot … [Read More...] about IMHO – Learning Math​ and the Gifted Identity

IMHO – Leading with Love and Kindness

June 16, 2019 By Barry Gelston, M.Ed.

I often speak about the approach of Leading with Love and Kindness within the contexts of being the President of a … [Read More...] about IMHO – Leading with Love and Kindness

IMHO – When working harder doesn’t work

June 16, 2019 By Barry Gelston, M.Ed.

Work harder, you can do it. Push harder, you can do it! These words of encouragement only work when you have to repeat the … [Read More...] about IMHO – When working harder doesn’t work

Non-Standard Learning

Shake off the Shackles

June 16, 2019 By Barry Gelston, M.Ed.

Let’s say that you are tasked with creating a learning program and facility to support people in your geographic community. What decisions would you make? What are your values? What are your limited resources to support everyone? Is there a model that fits the needs of everyone? What could that mean, what are the needs […]

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Haikus

giftedness, 2e, and disabilities

Haiku – Strength is Weakness, too

Asynchronous Development A common phenomenon that I experience with my gifted learners is that their intellectual development is not at the same pace as their physical development (a form of asynchronous development). Thinking floods their heads, their mouths can’t form the words in time, and their hands certainly cannot keep up with their heads trying […]

Haikus – Slow Motion Practice

A consistent issue that I find with a significant portion of my Gifted and 2e learners is that many of them love to rush through their math problems. I have experienced this mad rush enough to determine that the challenge is to change the rhythm of engagement to include time to review constraints, options, and […]

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