Do parents need to know about gifted education to be successful home schoolers?
It helps but it isn’t necessary. Most parents notice pretty quickly if one of their children is moving at a particularly quick pace. Parents who do want to know more about giftedness can participate in a listserv or read articles on the Davidson Institute’s (www.ditd.org) or Hoagie’s web sites (www.hoagiesgifted.org) to learn both about characteristics of gifted kids and also various teaching approaches, such as acceleration. I find it interesting that a lot of the teaching methods that work well for homeschooling are similar—or identical—to the best practices for gifted children that have been promoted over the past 20 years. The big difference is in terminology. What the field of gifted calls “integrated” or “interdisciplinary study,” for example, is called “unit study” in homeschooling. What gifted names “independent study” isn’t called that in homeschooling because all of the learning is fairly independent already. Acceleration is “moving at your own pace” in homeschooling. If pare
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