http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/ Tamara Fisher is a K-12 gifted education specialist for a school district located on an Indian reservation in northwestern Montana and President of the Montana Association of Gifted and Talented Education. With Karen Isaacson, she is also co-author of Intelligent Life in the Classroom: Smart Kids and Their Teachers. Her hobbies include drawing, hiking, fourwheeling, and building houses. (She lives in a house she built herself.) In this blog, Fisher discusses news and developments in the gifted education community and offers advice for teachers on working with gifted students. en Copyright 2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:35:19 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.31-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tamara Fisher reports in from her second day at the National Association for Gifted Children convention. http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/11/report_from_nagc_-_day_2.html http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/11/report_from_nagc_-_day_2.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:35:19 -0500 Tamara Fisher reports in from her first day at the National Association for Gifted Children convention. http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/11/report_from_nagc_-_day_1.html http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/11/report_from_nagc_-_day_1.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:43:52 -0500 Tamara Fisher posts the results of her reader survey. http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/11/survey_results.html http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/11/survey_results.html Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:25:18 -0500 K-12 Gifted Education Specialist Tamara Fisher reflects on the on-going process of helping rural, often isolated, Montana schools develop services for their gifted students. http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/10/getting_to_square_two.html http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/10/getting_to_square_two.html Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:24:56 -0500 Tamara's students talk about the benefits subject acceleration has had on their learning and motivation. http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/09/subject_acceleration.html http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/09/subject_acceleration.html Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:51:15 -0500 Anticipating the upcoming national gifted education conference, Tamara encourages her readers to use the experience as their Gateway to Gifted. http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/09/gateway_to_gifted.html http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/09/gateway_to_gifted.html Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:43:33 -0500 Tamara Fisher wonders if the Response to Intervention model overlooks the needs of gifted students in favor of those who struggle academically. http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/08/rti_and_the_gifted.html http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/08/rti_and_the_gifted.html Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:17:52 -0500 From now through the end of 2009, NAGC (the National Association for Gifted Children) will be offering free webinars on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month (plus a monthly "Parent Night.") It looks like they have a wide... http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/08/wow_webinars_on_wednesdays.html http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/08/wow_webinars_on_wednesdays.html Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:20:29 -0500 Well, the Edufest conference finished up swimmingly (and I did manage to get a smidge of "swimming" in via a float down the Boise River one day - squeezed in-between presenting and dinner). Here are a few highlights of what... http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/08/who_are_you_via_edufest_days_4.html http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/08/who_are_you_via_edufest_days_4.html Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:10:46 -0500 Greetings, all! This week finds me at one of my favorite places, Edufest in Boise, Idaho. It's a Gifted Education conference that takes place the last week of July each year. It's intense, in-depth, inspiring, interesting, jam-packed, fun, eye-opening, and... http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/07/edufest_days_1_2_and_3.html http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/07/edufest_days_1_2_and_3.html Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:01:54 -0500 Timed in conjunction with the annual SENG (Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted) conference, this week (July 19-25, 2009) is National Parenting Gifted Children Week, an awareness event sponsored by SENG and NAGC (the National Association for Gifted Children). Parenting... http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/07/national_parenting_gifted_chil.html http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/07/national_parenting_gifted_chil.html Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:52:35 -0500 In Gifted Education, twice exceptional (also “2e”) is the term used for those individuals who have dual (or even multiple) exceptionalities. They are both gifted “and” – such as gifted and learning disabled, gifted and bipolar, gifted and physically disabled,... http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/07/twice_exceptional_an_interview.html http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/07/twice_exceptional_an_interview.html Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:10:51 -0500 Hey, kids :o) My name is Tamara and for my job I work with super smart kids like you all day long in every grade level (yup, from Kindergarten all the way through high school). It’s loads of fun and... http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/06/strange_advice_for_bright_kids.html http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/06/strange_advice_for_bright_kids.html Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:09:16 -0500 Well, today was our last day of school for the year, and I am experiencing the screeching halt that comes after the whirlwind which is the end of a school year. I tend to get caught off-guard by the ends... http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/06/reflections_on_a_year_gone_by.html http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/06/reflections_on_a_year_gone_by.html Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:14:57 -0500 A few weeks ago I talked about the use of bibliotherapy with gifted students and how I was implementing the strategy with my 5th and 6th graders. Not long after that post, the kids finished reading their selected books and... http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/05/bibliotherapy_revisited.html http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2009/05/bibliotherapy_revisited.html Wed, 27 May 2009 07:48:49 -0500