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Meador, Karen – Understanding Our Gifted, 2001
This article provides 20 principles to enable educators to identify meaningful creative activities for gifted students and avoid the superfluous "whistles". Activities should: value creative thinking, make children more sensitive to environmental stimuli, encourage manipulation of objects and ideas, develop tolerance for new ideas, and teach how…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creativity, Educational Principles
Download full textWurster, Stanley R.; Ball, Klonda M. – 1976
Presented are the results of a 2-year project to develop and implement an instructional model for 200 identified talented and gifted students in grades K-8. Listed in an introductory section are project objectives (which include fostering improvement in creativity). Briefly described are such aspects of the program as student selection, project…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Creative Development, Curriculum Design, Demonstration Programs
Morra, Frank, Jr. – 1976
Presented is the 1975-76 evaluation report of the Alexandria Program for the Gifted and Talented, a multi-dimensional approach to the differentiated education of children in grades 4 through 6 with exceptional abilities in both the cognitive and artistic areas. It is explained that the evaluation study consisted of four activities: replication of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Creative Development, Exceptional Child Research
Morra, Frank, Jr. – 1977
Presented is the 1976-77 evaluation report of the Alexandria Program for the Gifted and Talented, a multi-dimensional approach to the differentiated education of children in grades 4 through 6 with exceptional abilities in both the cognitive and artistic areas. In Section I, an overview of the program is provided and it is explained that special…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Creative Development, Exceptional Child Research
Eriksson, Gillian I. – 1984
A creative arts program for talented students in Johannesburg (South Africa) is intended to foster perceptual-, aesthetic-, cultural-, social-, and self-awareness, understanding of the arts, as well as an emphasis on expanding creative potential focuses on the processes of sensory, intellectual creative, and aesthetic development. A four-phase…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education
