Mrs. Sunda's Gifted Teacher Resource Links

Assessments and Rubrics

Arizona State Board of Education Approved Test List for the Identification of Gifted Students
www.ade.state.az.us/asd/gifted/downloads/Test_List.pdf

Creative Thinking Rubric
www.adifferentplace.org/creativethinking.htm

Deductive Reasoning Rubric
www.adifferentplace.org/deductivereasoning.htm

Divergent Thinking Rubric
www.adifferentplace.org/divergentthinking.htm

High Order Thinking Rubric
www.adifferentplace.org/higherorderthinking.htm

Holistic Critical Thinking Rubric
www.insightassessment.com/pdf_files/rubric.pdf

Rubric for Assessing Critical Thinking
cbdd.wsu.edu/edev/Kenet_ToT/Unit5/Rubric4CriticalThinking.htm

Rubric for Assessment: Integrated Problem Solving Model
www.big6.com/showarticle.php?id=39

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Critical Thinking

Applying Bloom's Taxonomy
www.teachers.ash.org.au/researchskills/dalton.htm

Bloom's Taxonomy and the Spectrum of Assessment
www.beaconlearningcenter.com/WebLessons/SpectrumofAssessment/pages/spec01.htm

Bloom's Taxonomy Meets the Big Bad Wolf
www.beaconlearningcenter.com/WebLessons/BloomsTaxonomy/blooms01.htm

Critical Thinking Online Textbook
highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0767417399/student_view0/

Critical Thinking Community: Articles on Critical Thinking
www.criticalthinking.org/resources/articles/

Glossary of Critical Thinking
www.criticalthinking.org/resources/articles/glossary.shtml

Introduction to Thinking Skills
www.aea267.k12.ia.us/cia/framework/thinking/index.html

Lessons Learned About Teaching and Assessing Critical Thinking
cob.isu.edu/kreggaytes/LessonsLearned.htm

Resources For Teaching Reasoning And Critical Thinking
academic.pg.cc.md.us/~wpeirce/MCCCTR/links~1.html

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Differentiation for Gifted Learners

Asking Better Questions
mciu.org/~spjvweb/questions.html

Challenging Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom
www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content/challenging_gifted_kids.html

Curriculum Differentiation for the Gifted
www.gifted-children.com.au/link/resources/curriculum_differentiation
www.austega.com/gifted/provisions/curdifferent.htm
www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content/diff_curriculum.html

Developing Mathematical Thinking with Effective Questions
teacherline.pbs.org/teacherline/resources/questionsheet_vma.pdf

Differentiated Classroom
www.adifferentplace.org/classroom.htm

Differentiated Products
www.adifferentplace.org/products.htm

Modifying Content, Process, and Product
www.adifferentplace.org/modifying.htm

Questioning Techniques for Gifted Children
www.nexus.edu.au/teachstud/gat/painter.htm

Taxonomy of Socratic Questioning
www-ed.fnal.gov/trc/tutorial/taxonomy.html

Teachnology Curriculum Differentiation
www.teach-nology.com/edleadership/curriculum_development/differentiation/
www.teach-nology.com/litined/dif_instruction/

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Gifted Organizations

American Association for Gifted Children
www.aagc.org/

Arizona Association for the Gifted and Talented
www.azagt.org/

Gifted Development Center
http://www.gifteddevelopment.com/

Hoagies' Gifted Education Page
www.hoagiesgifted.org/

Hollingsworth Center for Highly Gifted Children
www.hollingworth.org/

National Association for Gifted Children
www.nagc.org/

National Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children
www.nfgcc.org/

National Research Center on Gifted and Talented
www.gifted.uconn.edu/nrcgt.html

SENG - Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted
www.sengifted.org/

Support Site for Gifted and Talented Youth in Arizona
www.azgifted.org/

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Legislation

Arizona Gifted Education Policy Statistics
www.gt-cybersource.org/StatePolicyDetails.aspx?StateCode=10004&NavID=4_0

Arizona Department of Education - Academic Achievement: Gifted Education
www.ade.az.gov/asd/gifted/

Gifted and Talented Students Education Act of 1999
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c106:H.R.637.IH:

Mandatory K-12 Services for Gifted Education in Arizona -
Arizona Revised Statutes and Arizona Administrative Code
www.ade.az.gov/asd/gifted/Statutes.pdf

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Lesson Plans and Activities

Challenge Lessons
www.angelfire.com/ca2/newtonfallstigers/lessons.html

Consider the Source: Webquest on Source Reliability
www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/webquest/considersource.htm

Debate Forum
www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/debate/teaching_debate.htm

Internet Investigations: Unsolved Mysteries
www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/mystery/Lessonplan.htm

Lesson Plans for Gifted Students
www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edexc.htm#giftedlessons

Literature Units Lesson Plan
www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/litpack/Lit_unit_plan.htm

Mythology Virtual Field Trip
www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/mythology/mythology_field_trip.pdf

New York Times Lesson Plan Archives
www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/archive.html

Nonverbal Reasoning Teaching Ideas
www.kyrene.org/resource/gifted/teachers/nonverbal_ideas.htm

Online Stock Market Simulations/Games
webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/stock_market.htm

Problem Solving Cookbooks
www.gitea.org/GITEA%20Problem%20Solving%20Cookbooks/cookbook%204.pdf

Resources for Teaching Gifted and Talented
www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edgifted.html

Teacher Resource Center of Gifted Lesson Plans
www.glc.k12.ga.us/trc/cluster.asp?mode=browse&intPathID=7686

Units, Lesson Plans, and Activities for the Gifted
www.adifferentplace.org/resources.htm

Universal Questions for Literature Studies
www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/lit_units/Lit_study_questions.pdf

Web-based Mathematics Resources
Click here

WebQuest Suggestions for Primary Students
Click here

Who Dunnit?
www.cyberbee.com/whodunnit/crime.html

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Publishers and Periodicals

Creative Learning Press
www.creativelearningpress.com/index.html

Creative Publications
www.creativepublications.com/

Critical Thinking Books and Software
www.criticalthinking.com/index.jsp

Critical Thinking Community
www.criticalthinking.org/resources/elementary.shtml

Free Spirit Publishing
www.freespirit.com/

Gifted and Talented Newsletter Signup (free)
newsletters.fen.com/email/newsletter/1,1692,59-9378,00.html

Gifted Child Today Magazine
www.prufrock.com/client/client_pages/prufrock_jm_giftchild.cfm

Gifted Children Monthly
www.gifted-children.com/infojoin.htm

Gifted Education Press
www.giftededpress.com/

Great Books Foundation
www.greatbooks.org/typ/

Great Potential Press
www.giftedbooks.com/

Guiding the Gifted Reader
www.vtaide.com/png/ERIC/Gifted-Reader.htm

Imagine Magazine for Gifted and Talented Students
www.jhu.edu/gifted/imagine/

Interact Simulations
www.interact-simulations.com

Jamestown Education Critical Reading Series
www.glencoe.com/gln/jamestown/reading_nonfiction/index.php

Pitsco
www.pitsco.com/

Prufrock Press (Formerly Dandy Lion Publications)
www.prufrock.com/

Roeper Review - A Journal on Gifted Education
www.apa.org/ed/tblofcontents68.html

Twice Exceptional Newsletter
www.2enewsletter.com/

Understanding Our Gifted Online Journal
www.our-gifted.com/

Zephyr Press
www.zephyrpress.com/

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Research and Readings

Davidson Institute for Talent Development's Library of full text articles
www.geniusdenied.com/articles/readarticlenew.aspx?NavID=13_0

Gifted and Talented Research Links
www.sde.state.id.us/GiftedTalented/Biblio/

National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented
www.gifted.uconn.edu/nrcgt.html

Readings on Gifted Children with Learning Disabilities
www.coe.unt.edu/gifted/parents/twice.htm

Recommended Reading for Gifted Educators
www.geniusdenied.com/Articles.aspx?ArticleID=26&NavID=3_4

Research Synthesis on Gifted Provisions by Dr. Karen Rogers
www.nswagtc.org.au/info/articles/RogersResearchSynthesis.html

Underachievement Research Articles
www.eddept.wa.edu.au/gifttal/EAGER/researchArticles.html

Recommended Reading List by SENG
www.sengifted.org/articles_booklist.shtml

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Web Resources

A Different Place (a great starter source for all things gifted)
www.adifferentplace.org/teachers.htm

Academic Competitions
www.jhu.edu/gifted/imagine/linkB.htm

Academic Competitions and Challenges - Arizona and National
academic_challenges.xls

Arizona Learning Interchange
ali.apple.com/ali_sites/azli/nav5.shtml

Arizona Odyssey of the Mind
www.azodyssey.org/

Best on the Web - Resources for Gifted K-12
64.45.40.212/best.htm

Center for Gifted Education, College of William and Mary
cfge.wm.edu/

Conexiones - Enhancing Communication Through Technology
conexiones.asu.edu/

Discover Projects
www.discover.arizona.edu/

The Fundamentals of Critical Reading and Effective Writing
criticalreading.com/

Future Problem Solving Program
www.fpsp.org/

Gifted and Talented Education: Principles into Practice
scs.une.edu.au/TalentEd/gate_pip/contents.htm

Gifted Resources - list of links
GiftedResources.pdf

Internet Gifted Resources for Teachers
www.adifferentplace.org/internetresources.htm

Internet Resources for Gifted
internet_resources.pdf

Notestar Online Notetaking Tool
notestar.4teachers.org/

Noodle Tools: Interactive Tools to Aid Students with Online Research
www.noodletools.com/

MathCounts - Promoting Middle School Math Achievement
www.mathcounts.org/

Problem Solving Standards - State of Arizona
www.ade.state.az.us/asd/gifted/giftedstandards.asp

Programs for Talented Youth (Arizona State University)
www.asu.edu/talentedyouth/

Quotes on Creativity and Giftedness
www.nfgcc.org/quotes.htm

Teaching Strategies from the Center for Talented Youth
www.jhu.edu/~gifted/teaching/strategies/index.html

Underachieving Gifted Students
www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content/underachieving_gifted.html

Web Sites that Work Well with Gifted Students
www.coe.unt.edu/gifted/URL_Sites_for_G-T.html

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