This article highlights findings of a study on the suicides of three academically talented male adolescents. Results of the psychological autopsies are reported in terms of commonalities with adolescent suicide in the general population; commonalities among the three cases related to their giftedness; and themes emerging across the cases,…

This article describes the Art Elective Program (AEP), a government supported program for gifted students at a girls' high school in Singapore. The AEP offers academically talented students, who usually concentrate on the sciences, exposure to the visual arts. Students study drawing, painting, design, and art history; do projects; and participate…

A mother discusses the experiences of accelerating her gifted daughter's education through summer programs, grade skipping, and course skipping. Acceleration broadened the daughter's experience and sense of accomplishment and enabled her to participate in decision making about her future. Advice is offered to parents who are considering…

Describes Cuba's special schools for children talented in mathematics and science with emphasis on Lenin school, a central boarding school that enrolls 2700 gifted students and 14 regional boarding schools that enroll a total of 5000 students. Curriculum and Cuban Olympiad problem examples are included. (DB)

Describes a dynamic, innovative leadership conference that meets the needs of leadership training for gifted secondary students. The conference provides an opportunity for underachieving gifted students to excel, and for gifted students to design, develop, and implement the entire conference while having fun and experiencing success. (Author/CR)

Reviews the research on competition in classrooms for gifted students. It finds that competitive classroom structures involving extrinsic rewards may undermine the task commitment and involvement characteristic of intrinsic motivation and that this relationship is stronger for gifted students than for other students. Some short-term benefits of…

Offers strategies for modifying the regular class curriculum for high-ability students including lesson modifications, assignment modifications, and scheduling modifications. Three case studies illustrate these modifications. (DB)

The case of Michael Kearney, who completed high school and college by age 10, is used to illustrate characteristics of profoundly gifted children, including expected and atypical characteristics of giftedness and the ability to intuit knowledge, learn from diverse sources, interact at multiple ability levels, and try out theories in unusual ways.…

Carnegie Mellon University's two-week summer enrichment program for mathematically gifted students in grades three through six is described, with attention to eligibility and student identification, a problem-solving emphasis, a typical day, staffing, instructional materials, and questioning techniques. The two enrichment courses involved…

Teaching the geography of the United States to gifted elementary-level children in a way that challenges preconceived ideas about people and places is the focus of this article. Detailed student instruction is described, including thinking and writing activities that enable students to compare preconceived notions and reality. (CR)

This article considers ways to keep a gifted student interested while teaching basic skills to others in an inclusive classroom setting. The challenges that an inclusive environment presents to the teacher are described. Strategies recommended to provide gifted students with a differentiated curriculum include curriculum compacting, independent…

The Diagnostic Testing and Prescription model, developed by the Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins University (MD), was implemented in seven sixth-grade classes at three Brooklyn schools. The selected 165 students were provided an accelerated curriculum (covering arithmetic, prealgebra, and in some cases, algebra) and completed from 1-2.5…

Intermediate level academically talented students learn essential elements of computer programming by working with robots at enrichment workshops at Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood, New Jersey. The children combine creative thinking and problem-solving skills to program the robots' microcomputers to perform a variety of movements. (JDD)

Describes Weekend Workshops offered by the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Talented Elementary Students. The purpose of the three-hour workshops is to offer academically talented students an interesting and challenging experience. The philosophy and goals of the program and course descriptions are provided. (CR)