Gifted and Talented Education

Gifted & Talented Education

Enhance the achievement and performance of children and adolescents with special gifts and talents, whether it’s in psychology, music, or basketball.

APA’s Center for Gifted Education Policy

Enhances the achievement of children with special gifts and talents in all domains: academic disciplines, performing arts, sports, and other professions.

The Special Populations Early Learning Guidelines Toolkit

Provides help in working with gifted and talented children, as well as twice exceptional children (gifted children with special education needs).

What is giftedness?

APA Handbook of Giftedness and Talent

APA Handbook of Giftedness and Talent

This handbook incorporates the most recent thinking and cutting-edge research from a wide range of fields related to gifted education, including developmental and social psychology, the neurosciences, cognitive science, and education.
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Rethinking giftedness and gifted education opens in new window

An article to help you define “giftedness,” address the challenges to gifted education, understand scientific consensus and controversy, and explore talent-development models. 
The Development of Giftedness and Talent Across the Life Span

The Development of Giftedness and Talent Across the Life Span

Contributors examine prediction and measurement, diversity issues, and psychosocial factors as they relate to developing talent in different domains.

Supporting gifted children

Top 20 principles for preK–12 creative, talented, and gifted students opens in new window

Gifted children, like all children, are best taught when the Top 20 principles included in this document are in place and supported by the administration and faculty. 

Opening new vistas for talented kids

Psychologists are unearthing a wealth of research on the factors that help gifted and talented youth thrive.

Giftedness and STEM

High school science student

Impact of specialized public high schools of science, mathematics, and technology

This study examines schools that coalesce the most academically talented, science-focused students in each district or state. 
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Staying power

What does it take to keep talented students in stem fields?

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Intelligence

Intelligence refers to intellectual functioning; IQ tests compare your performance with similar people, but they don’t measure other kinds of intelligence, such as social intelligence
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Schools and classrooms

Psychological science provides key insights on effective instruction, classroom environments that promote learning, classroom management, appropriate use of assessment, and more
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Testing, assessment, and measurement

Standardized instruments are used to measure behavior or mental attributes, such as attitudes, emotional functioning, intelligence and cognitive abilities, aptitudes, values, interests, and personality characteristics
Date created: 2009