DOCUMENT RESUME ED 347 752 EC 301 368 AUTHOR Smutny, Joan Franklin, Ed. TITLE Illinois Council for ttle Gifted Journal, 1992. INSTITUTION Illinois Council for the Gifted, Palatine. PUB DATE 92 NOTE B5p. PUB TYPE Collected Works - Serials (022) -- Guides - Fon-Classroom Use (055) JOURNAL CIT Il1inci-.; Council for the Gifted Journal; v11 1992 EDRS PRICE MFUl/PCG4 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Ability Identification; *Child Rearing; Classroom Environment; Cooperative Learning; *Curriculum Development; Educational Planning; Educational Practices; Elementary Education; *Gifted; Models; Parent Child Relationship; Preschool Children; i-reschool Education; *Program Development; Student Characteristics; Student Evaluation; *Talent Identification; Thinking Skills; Whole Language Approach IDENTIFIERS Illinois ABSTRACT This annual issue of the Illinois Council for the Gifted Journalkincludes 20 articles focusing on young gifted children. Titles and authors are: "How Can I Tell If My Preschooler is Gifted?" (Susan Golant); "Early Childhood Education for the Gifted: The Need for Intense Study and Observation" (Maurice Fisher); "Assessing Gifted and Talented Children" (James Webb); "Early Assessment of Exceptional Potential" (Beverly Shaklee and Jane Rohrer); "Teacher Assessment of Preschool and Primary Giftedness" (Jane Wolfe and W. Thomas Southern); "Characteristics of Gifted. Children and How Parents and TeaChers Can Cope with Them" (Arn3oarie Roeper); "The Needs of the Young Gifted Child (A Short and Incomplete Overview)" (Annemarie Roeper); "The Whole Child and the Gift--Nurturing Our Very Young Gifted Students" (Dorothy Massalski); "Irtegrating the Gifted Child into Family Life" (Caryl Krueger); "Family Factors in the Adult Success of High-IQ Children" (Rena Subotnik and James Borland); "The ABC's of Curriculum for Gifted 5-Year-Olds: Alphabet, Blocks and Chess?" (Susan Kaplan); "Teaching Thinking Early" (Anne Crabbe and Pat Hoelscher); "Greater Gifts Than Thpae" (Susan Belgrad); "Creating a Nurturing Classroom Environment" (Laura Reguarth); "Education of Young Gifted Children" (Peggy Snowden); "Intuition is for the Learning" (Don Rapp); "Cooperative Learning: A Wolf in SPeep's Clothing" (Susan Linnemever); "Reaching All Studelts in a Heterogeneous Classroom Through Whole Language" (Margaret Bryant); "Gifted Education: To Be or Not to Be?" (Kathy Hagstrom); "From Ownership to 'Allship': Building a Conceptual Framework for Education of the Gifted and Creative" (LeoNora Cohen). Two addi.tional articles are: "My Life and How it Grew" (Julian Sanley) and "What the Gifted Need: Toward a General Unified Plan for Gifted Education" (Jessie H. Sanders and Leonard H. Sanders). (DS) ILLINOIS COUNCIL FOR THE III GIFTED A NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATION "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS JOURNAL. MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRAN'ED BY 01\1 46I26 OLUNE11, 1992 t" TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES '111iiml.mr, INFORMATIONCENTER fERICI." rm. Or:fp...2N. 2 CURRICULUM FOR YOUNG GIFTED CHILDREN The ABC's of Curriculum for Gifted fi-year-oldss Alphabet, Bloats and Chess? IDENTIFYING THE YOUNG Swan Kaplan GIFTED CHILD Teaching Thinldng Early 114444144444444 44411,1444444444444444444411411114444445 How Can I Tell If My Preschooler is 4 Anne Crabbe and. Pat Hoelscher Susan Galant Greater Gifts Titan These 47 Early Childhood Educatbn for the Gifts& Susan Belgrad The Need for Intense Study & Observation ..... 6 Creating a Nurturing Classroom Maurice Asher Environment fltSltflfllllSt4fllSttJfltltflflflflflflfl##flflfllvflflflfl 48 Assessing Gifted and Talented Children 10 Laura Requartlt James Webb Education of Young Gifted Children Early Assessment of Exceptional Potential 22 Peggy Snowden Beverly Shaklee and Jane Rohrer Intuition is for the Learning !SW& .004.14.1.44 ********* Teacher Assessment of Preschool and Don Rapp Primary Giftedness 24 Jane Wolfe and W Thomas Southern EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR YOUNG GIFTED CHILDREN Coopecative Learning: NURTURING THE YOUNG A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing 62 GIFTED CHILD Susan Linnerneyer Characteristics of Gifted Children and How Re Aching All Students in a Heterogeneous Parents and Teachers Can Cope with Them 31 Classroom Through Whole Language 64 Annemarie Roeper Margarvt Bryant The Needs of the Young Gifted Child Gifted Educations To Be or Not to Be? 68 (A Short and Incomplete Overview) 32 Kathy MY ?Won Annemarie Roeper From Ownership to Allohlp: The Whole Child and the rat Building a Conceptual Framework for Nurturing Our Very Young Gifted Students Education of the Gifted and Creative 69 Dorothy Massalaki LeoNora Cohen Integrating the Gifted Child into Family Life 34 Caryl Krueger A TRIBUTE TO JULIAN STANLEY Family Factors in the Adult Success My Life and How it Grew ..76 of High-IQ Children 37 Julian Stanley Rena Subotnik & James Borland NT) U 3 DEPARTMENT Of EDUCATION FROM THE ICG PRESIDENT Orhce dt Ed,,catonal Ressafcn ins N.Pfovrenenl What the Gifted Needs Toward a General EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CEWER (ERIC! Unified Plan for Gifted Education ....H.. fil 11,8 documeni nas Dean ,Saftyditc es al ,OCemed Iron, Me wireori of orgamttll,oft Jessie IL Sanders and Leonard IL Sanders 'ef) wrgoialin C Munsr enanges NIA4 Dean masa lo roofOref retwOduClitY, CluiirtY Pc:unit; IV re* Or 004fIrOns 011100 in tniaspeu f°/1 101 necelaafIlY ;palatal/I Offieral OEPI a0fillen Of 130lICY '1"1-7 BEST COPY AVAILABLE- INTRODUCTION Joan Franklin Smutny, Editor Director of The Center for Gifted, National-Louis liniversiN Evanston, Minoie In the 1830's, Wilhelm Froebel of Germany coined In the second section, 'Nurturing theYoung Mita the term, "Idndergarten," which is literally translated, Child,* Annemarie Roeper, a pioneer. in gifted educa, 'children's garden.' As Froebel envisioned it, kinder- tion, identifies characteriatics of gifted children and garten was a place where a young child's unique abili- how parents and teachers can effectively respond to ties could germinate. Gently and with keen sensitivity, them. la a companion piece, Roeper proyides a brief the educator, or keeper of the garden, would preserve, statement outlining varioul needs of the yalingfited. protect and nurture the child's inherent joy and sense of child.Dorothy Massilaki, early childho'od teacher; wonder. Careful cultivation at this early age would turn provides incisive observations from a teacher', map* the child naturallytoward the light ofknowledge, thereby tive on the need to maintain a sense of patience and enlightening his or her perspective toward learning, balance while educating the young gifted and talented work and play. By so enriching the whole of the child's child. The reader will find substantive advice from educational experience, the whole child, the 'full corn in Caryl Krueger, author of many books for parents and the ear,' would blossom in due season. grandparenta, whose article here features ideas on From today's perspective, it seems a marvel that a creating a home atmosphere that provides a nurturing gentleman who emerged amid the dawn of the Indus- environmentfor the gifted child in particular and the trial Revolution and ita particular mindsets could speak entire family in general. Recent research by known so perceptively in terms of the natural unfoldment of the gifted educators Rena Subotnik and James Borland child and the importance of recognizing and nurturing poses some provocative questions regarding the effect his capabilities and talents, to achieve balance in the that parents have on their gifted child's success or physical, intellectual, moral, and spiritual culture of failure in his or her chosen career as a gifteddult. this young child. The reader may pick up a few new chess moves, as Recently, a parallel appreciation among educators well as learn an important lesson on dispelling precon. regarding the special needs of the young gifted child has ceived notions about "developmentally appropriate cur- emerged. In an effort to bring these ideas and ideals to ricuhim,* in teacher Susan Kaplan's article which ap- a higher level of awareness, this issue of the Journal is pears in this issue's third section, "Curriculum for dedicated to this long-overdue trend in the field of gifted Young Gifted Children." Learning how to think, riot just education.It ia our privilege to share with you a what to think, is the underlying theme presented by splendid collection of insights, experiences, observa- gifted practitioners Anne Crabbe and Pat Hoelscher. tions and recommendations in regard to identifying, The two authors discuss an academic adventure upon nurturing and appropriately educating the gifted young which they embarked, "The Future Problem Solving child, from some of the fme thinkers and doers in this Program,' which, they concur, augments the basic school underrated and often highly neglected area. Parents of curriculum by employing the creative, six-step problem- young children, pre-school and kindergarten teachers, solving process dc veloped by Alex Osborn and Sidney as well as practitioners in early childhood and gifted Parma. The ingenious qualities of the Froebel Gifts are education, will find a rich harvest of information and delightfully illustrated by Susan Belgrad, early child- guidance among the pages of this issue. It is our hope hood educator, with the help of her gifted son and his that myths will be dispelled and more accurate perspec- third-grade classmates. tives concerning the essentiality of focus on the gifted Continuing in the genie section, teacher Laura young child will be gained--and disseminated. Requarth shares diversified