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General sites for world wide information Hoagies Gifted Education Page links to all types of information concerning gifted children Advanced Development is a journal of adult giftedness which has some volumes available in pdf format (acrobat reader) The abstracts from their eagerly awaited volume on Spirituality and Giftedness (vol 9) are listed here, including several concerning spiritual and psychic awareness in young gifted children. www.Douance.org le site principal français, avec beacoup des lignes The Council for Exceptional children presents a number of papers on gifted issues The British National Association for Gifted Children has information on schools and programming The National Association for Able Children in Education (NACE) contains information for teachers and districts on the British experience of establishing programming for gifted children. You can also link with the Research Centre for Able Pupils at Westminster College Oxford New The
National Curriculum site for the UK has lots of teacher resources on
modifying curriculum for "able" pupils.
New South Wales Association for Gifted and Talented Children publishes all kinds of world information, teaching and research links including recent world newsclips at their site. The Davidson Institute webpage has a great deal of information on highly and profoundly gifted children. As test norms differ between Canada and the US, Canadian parents of highly gifted Canadian children should take a look at some of this information. Accelleration information is available through A new publication A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America’s Brightest Students by Nicholas Colangelo, Susan G. Assouline, Miraca U. M. Gross Provincial government sites (if you know of any specific pages linked to gifted ed policy please let us know!) Alberta's
main education site policy 1.62- special education and
1.61 Educational placement of students with special needs are posted here.
The
B.C. Ministry of Education have online publications including "Gifted
education a resource guide for teachers", their manual of policies procedures
and guidelines for Special Education, and a "Parents guide to IEP's".
Manitoba Ministry of Education en Français Éducation et Formation professionnelle post a wide range of information at their main site as well as a special education home page (including their special education review) New Brunswick Department of Education Newfoundland's Ministry of Education website Nova Scotia has a site with a special education policy manual and a new document for gifted students Challenge for Excellence. Nunuvut is in the process of setting up a site here The
Ontario Ministry of Education and Training has special
education a guide for educators
Prince Edward Island has a website which includes information on schools in PEI Quebec
posts some information on their English School Network and in French at
the site below.
Saskatchewan Ministry of Education posts general information Yukon education website back to top site map On the Right Track:for Gifted Education, home page of Assiniboine South School Division, Manitoba. What Educators of Gifted Learners Need to Know About . a series of reproducible pamphlets written by B.C. teachers are available from this site as well as summaries of presentations by Dr. Linda Silverman,Jeffrey Freed and Louis Breur Krause Canadian Education on the Web links to Canadian Educational organizations and sites. The Canadian Association of Montessori Teachers has links to schools and resources. all so check out the American Montessori Association. Schoolnet (Réscole) has lots of Canadian education links. Gifted Education in Alberta has links to parent, teacher and kid sites. Children's literature resources for teachers Jerome and Deborah's Big Pages of Education Links created by teachers working in northern Manitoba for students and teachers. Does anyone know if these pages are still online? Site d'adaptation scolaire et sociale de langue français banque d'informations sur différentes thématiques d'adaptation scolaire et sociale, dont la douance; différentes rubriques sont développées en douance dont l'état d'avancement de la connaissance, une bibliographie annotée (livres, revues spécialisées, matériel d'enrichissement), des comptes rendus et critiques, des ressources humaines et matérielles, des projets de recherche en cours et terminées, des projets scolaires au primaire et au secondaire, l'annonce d'événements, les formations offertes (créditées ou non) et les autres sites d'intérêts. Telus learning connection from Alberta (en français aussi) is a site for parents teachers and students with hundreds of links concerning k-12 curriculum Canadian Parent organizations for gifted children are listed on our parenting page. CM is a weekly electronic reviewing journal from the Manitoba library association which reviews books, videos, and other material targeted for chidlren and young adults. Toilbertahttp://www.2learn.ca/toile2/toileberta.html a list of French sites and ways of learning French on the net for students of French as a second language. Canadian Dyslexia Association (Association canadiennne de la dyslexie) Learning Disabilities Association of Canada (Troubles dápprentissage assoc. canadienne Canadian Parents for French list ways to help your child learn french. Today's parent magazine is available online. Canadian Homeschool resources links, booklists, sites and programs for home schoolers. Inside the Teenage Brain is a great site on PBS online. If you are dealing with a teenager, this site may save some of your relationship and your sanity. There is lots of current brain research as well as discussions of brain development across childhood. Even includes good checklists to help establish or re-establish communication with your teen. Maple Leaf Home education resources is a central Canadian site for individuals to post requests for used home education resources. Teachon is an interesting Canadian site dedicated to bringing together parents, teachers and resources on the web. They are establishing a gifted section. Stephanie Tolan is one of the best known writers of fiction and non fiction articles concerning gifted children. She writes from a parents point of view and her articles are classics for parents check out her address to the Davidson Institute You can't do it wrong Uniquely Gifted is a collection of resources for families with gifted/special needs children and the professionals who work with them. Absolutely every possible special need which may be a question mark on your child's file can be found here, as well as stories from parents and children. Dysgraphia
is well explained with many links at psychologist Margaret Kay's website.
Distance Education Advanced placement online delivers online AP courses in Canada. South Island Distance Education School, part of the B.C. public school system (see below) is the only school in Canada offering advanced placement courses online BC's Open University and Open College, allow students 16 yrs and up to take a variety of college-level business courses and lower-level university courses, using online conferencing technology. Order Open Learning agency course materials (Distance ed) online. These make great review units based on Ministry of Ed grade requirements. You don't need to register for the course to purchase sections of it but you will not receive credit or have access to markers or teachers. This is a good way to find out what a distance ed course looks like and work through some projects with your child if you are considering homeschooling. South Island Distance Education supplies "School in a Box" and electronic school by computer to many gifted learners in B.C. , Saskatchewan (and various places where their students are found across the globe.) They are part of a network of Distance Education centres in B.C. Access
learning online has numerous school and college programs delivered
via internet and also links to Canadian Learning Television and a number
of education products for sale
Schools The Canadian Education Policy and Administration Network lists all School Districts in Canada, just click on their map under information and links Charter schools New Horizons School, Sherwood Park, Alberta and Westmount Charter Public School, Calgary Alberta focus on gifted children. Choice School for Gifted Learners is a day school for gifted students located in Richmond B.C. Students can be accomodated up to age 13 (may be up to a grade 10 level) The University of Toronto Schools is a Grade 7-OAC school that provides a unique alternative learning environment for students of exceptionally high academic ability. The Academy For Gifted Children, Richmond Hill, Ontario, is a independent day school that provides differential programming for gifted children, grade one through O.A.C. Canadian Association of independent schools a site for families to research member schools. Road
College International Junior and Senior High School in Ottawa, opens
September 2003 for grades 7-12; The Founder envisions a school where Gifted
students are encouraged to live up to their potential, and as a result
acceleration is
United World Colleges offer international programs for interested students at sites such as Lester Pearson College of the Pacific The International Baccalaureate Organisation aims to assist schools in their endeavours to develop the individual talents of young people. Beyond intellectual rigour and high academic standards, strong emphasis is placed on the ideals of international understanding and responsible citizenship. Schools across Canada offer the program. School Course materials. Check the homeschooling and Distance Education links as well, we will post commercial, Canadian curriculum materials here. Academic
Edge specializes in Canadian course based study guides for elementary
and high school. They are available in some bookstores or you can
order them online.
Canadian Home Based learning page contains links to regulations, and associations for homeschoolers in every province Homeschoolers guide has a good newsletter and information for homeschoolers including links for gifted students. (based in Calgary) Renaissance II Liberal Education Society has some fascinating alternative schooling oportunites, check out the Island Pacific Odyssey link Homeschooling
in New Brunswick has lots of great Canadian links for other home schoolers
as well as links to Montessori and Waldorf home schooling
Bright
Math summer camps on recreational mathematics held at Carleton University,
sponsored by the School of Mathematics and Statistics. Different levels
are
Deep
River Science Academy (DRSA) is an award-winning, six-week summer program
dedicated to giving high school students genuine science and engineering
research experience in the laboratories of one of our industrial Research
Partners. Each pair of students is supervised by a researcher working on
the staff of the Research Partner, and tutored by a university student
who is the supervisor's research assistant for the summer. The research
project for the student is provided by the supervisor and is part of the
on-going research in the laboratory. High school students can also earn
high school credits under the direction of qualified teachers. To
graduate from the academy, students are required to give a short paper
on their research project to peers and other researchers, and write a report.
Students live together in a relaxed, but well supervised camp atmosphere.
Dinosaur
Country Camp
Leap Enrichment Program is a summer program from the McMaster University Faculty of Engineering in Hamilton Ontario for top students in grades ten, eleven and twelve interested in engineering. Course materials change yearly but in 2006 will include sections on Mecatronics, Biomedical engineering, Robotics and many others. The Queen's University Enrichment Mini-Course Program provides gifted and highly motivated secondary school students with the opportunity to study a subject of their choosing at an advanced level for one week. The program provides participants with a challenging alternative learning experience at one of Canada's leading post-secondary institutions. TIP/Canada is a collaborative venture of the Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto and the University of Toronto Schools. The annual Talent Search offers academically talented students in Canada an opportunity to become aware of their exceptional abilities, to take part in tailored services and educational opportunities and to write the SAT1 Shad Valley is an exciting summer program designed especially for top students in senior high school. The award-winning program is offered in Canada at eight host campuses (Waterloo, Calgary, New Brunswick, McMaster, Acadia, Carleton, UBC and Sherbrooke) Satori
summer camp Satori Summer Camp [www.satoricamp.org] (in eastern
Washington State, USA)is a week long residential or day camp for gifted
junior high or senior high
SUCCESS
summer programs from the Centre for Gifted Education at the University
of
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