Educational Settings Homeschooling
Selected Homeschool Resources for Gifted Children and Families
Web Sites & Web Articles
Ann Zeise's A to Z Home's Cool Homeschooling Web Site
www.gomilpitas.com/homeschooling
College Planning for Gifted and Talented Youth (ERIC Digest #E492)
http://www.nagc.org/index.aspx?id=202
Davidson Institute
http://www.ditd.org/public/
Hoagies Gifted Education Web Site
www.hoagiesgifted.org
"Homeschooling Gifted Students: An Introductory Guide for Parents" by Jacque Ensign
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/eric/e543.html
Learn in Freedom!
http://learninfreedom.org
"One Profoundly Gifted Kid's Story"
www.educationaloptions.com
Serving Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG)
http://sengifted.org
Uniquely Gifted: Especially for Parents: College
http://www.uniquelygifted.org/especially_for_parents.htm#_College
Books
Albert, David (1999). And the Skylark Sings with Me: Adventures in Homeschooling and Community-Based Education. New Society Publishers
Albert, David (2003). Homeschooling and the Voyage of Self-Discovery: A Journey of Original Seeking. Common Courage Press.
Asher, Donald (2007). Cool Colleges: For the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed, Late Blooming, and Just Plain Different. Ten Speed Press
Berger, Sandra L. (2006). College Planning for Gifted Students: Choosing and Getting into the Right College, third edition. Prufrock Press
Dobson, Linda (2000). Homeschoolers' Success Stories: 15 Adults and 12 Young People Share the Impact That Homeschooling Has Made on Their Lives. Prima Publishing
Dobson, Linda (2000). Homeschoolers' Success Stories: 15 Adults and 12 Young People Share the Impact That Homeschooling Has Made on Their Lives. Prima Publishing
Frost, Maya (2009). The New Global Student: Skip the SAT, Save Thousands on Tuition, and Get a Truly International Education. Crown/Three Rivers Press
Johnson, Ned, and Emily Warner Eskelsen (2006). Conquering the SAT: How Parents Can Help Teens Overcome the Pressure and Succeed. Palgrave Macmillan
Leistico, Agnes (1997). I Learn Better By Teaching Myself; and, Still Teaching Ourselves. Holt Associates
Llewellyn, Grace (1996). Freedom Challenge: African American Homeschoolers. Lowry House
Llewellyn, Grace (1993). Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Don't Go to School. Lowry House
Penn-Nabrit, Paula (2003). Morning by Morning: How We Home-Schooled Our African-American Sons to the Ivy League. Villard
Rivero, Lisa (2000). Gifted Education Comes Home: A Case for Self-Directed Homeschooling. Gifted Education Press
Rivero, Lisa (2002). Creative Home Schooling: A Resource Guide for Smart Families. Great Potential Press
Rivero, Lisa (2008). The Homeschooling Option: How To Decide When It’s Right for Your Family. Palgrave Macmillan
Silverman, Linda Kreger (2002). Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner. DeLeon Publishing
Selected Learning Resources
There is no way that you can try or even learn about all of the many wonderful educational resources for gifted homeschoolers. Here are just a handful of learning resources highly recommended by other parents of gifted homeschooled children. The Web site and books listed above offer many more suggestions.
Critical Thinking Books & Software
www.criticalthinking.com
EPGY (Education Program for Gifted Youth)
www-epgy.stanford.edu
Center for Distance and Independent Study, University of Missouri
http://cdis.missouri.edu
A History of US, by Joy Hakim
http://www.pbs.org
TED Talks: Ideas Worth Spreading
http://www.ted.com
List of Virtual Schools for the Gifted & Regional Talent Search Programs
http://www.cec.sped.org
Key Curriculum Press
www.keypress.com
PBS
www.pbs.org
Royal Fireworks Press
http://www.rfwp.com
Your Public Library
In terms of value for your time and money, nothing beats the library as a resource for gifted homeschoolers! Give yourself permission to spend long, leisurely mornings and afternoons there searching the books, magazines, cd-roms and other resources. Some libraries even have board games and textbooks available for borrowing. Become acquainted with the children's librarian and reference librarian, and ask about teacher resources and reference materials that may be kept on separate shelves. Also, ask whether your library participates in an interlibrary loan program that would allow you to request materials from other local or university libraries.
Open Courseware
The Universities and Web sites below offer free courseware that motivated students can use to learn everything from architecture to zoology.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb
University of California, Berkeley Webcast
http://webcast.berkeley.edu
The Open University
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk
YouTube EDU
http://www.youtube.com/education
Academic Earth
http://academicearth.org
|