Drafts and Posts for the GHF Dialogue

The GHF Dialogue is a community journal for the gifted community.

The Gifted Community

July 15, 2019 By Barry Gelston, M.Ed.

As the world looks to the gifted community to solve their problems, we have a responsibility to put on our oxygen masks first. Barry Gelston, M.Ed. The Gifted Community is a collective whole of individuals who are as different as they are unique. We share a club that is defined by each one of us being an outlier to the norm. We are divergent, excitable, sensitive, and … [Read more...] about The Gifted Community

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 […]