Teacher Resources
National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC)
NACG is national advocacy organization for gifted and talented education. Various resources and links are available on this site. http://www.nagc.org/
The College Board
The College Board manages the Advanced Placement Program, the SAT, PSAT/NMSQT, and CLEP. http://www.collegeboard.com/
Oklahoma Advanced Placement Incentives Program
The Oklahoma AP program, funded with legislative-appropriated money, includes materials and equipment grants, professional development for Oklahoma public school educators, and test fee assistance for qualifying students. http://title3.sde.state.ok.us/ap/
Teachers.Net Lesson Plan Exchange
This excellent site is full of classroom-tested lesson plans shared by teachers just like you! You may also post your own great lesson plans for others to use. http://teachers.net/lessons/
Education Place
K-8 resources for teachers, students, and parents http://eduplace.com/index.jsp
Webquest Page
This is a collection of inquiry-oriented activities in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Also available at this site are teacher and student training materials and evaluation rubrics to assess the merit of the webquests created. http://webquest.org/index.php
Busy Teacher's Web Site
A well-organized collection of education links -- and this site lives up to its name. http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/homepg.htm
Odyssey of the Mind and Oklahoma Odyssey of the Mind
Odyssey of the Mind is a world-wide, nonprofit organization that promotes creative team-based problem solving in a school program for students from kindergarten through college. The program helps students learn divergent thinking and problem solving skills while participating in a series of challenging and motivating activities, both inside and outside their regular classroom curriculum. http://www.odysseyofthemind.com/
Awesome Library
This site can be used by teachers, librarians, parents, and students to gain information from several databases. Simply enter a search term or select a database related to an academic subject area or specialty area. There are 14,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5% in education . http://awesomelibrary.org/
CyberGuides
Supplementary, standards-based, Web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature are available on this great site. http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html
Education World
Lesson plan database in every subject area and monthly updates for teachers on new sites relevant to specific topics can be accessed through EW. http://www.educationworld.com/
WordMasters
This contest addresses higher-level word-comprehension and logical abilities such as those measured for high school students by the verbal SAT. It does this by challenging students to complete analogies based on relationship among words they have learned, and basing these analogies on special vocabulary lists, drawn up for each grade by experienced teachers, which participants are encouraged to study before each meet. http://www.wordmasterschallenge.com/
McGee-KeiserAcademic Enrichment Programs
McKee-Keiser Academic Enrichment Programs provides unique in-school gifted and talented curricula for primary, intermediate, and middle school. Both grade-specific and multiage curricula are available for primary and intermediate students. http://www.mcgee-keiser.com/
Hoagies' Gifted Education Page
Hoagies' Gifted Education Page is a comprehensive resource guide for education of gifted children. It's full of great information, with links to the most complete, easiest to use, resources on nearly every aspect of gifted education available on the Internet, plus lots of annotations and first hand information provided by parents facing the same challenges that you are facing. http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/
Neag Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development
Housed at the University of Connecticut, the Neag Center also includes the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/
Belin-Blank Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development
Housed at the University of Iowa, the Belin-Blank Center focuses on all aspects of academic and social/emotional support of gifted and talented children. http://www.education.uiowa.edu/belinblank/
Gifted Education Resource Institute
GERI conducts research on the psychology of talent development, trains professionals from all nations of the world to promote the development of individuals who have gifts and talents, and provides services to talented individuals and their families. http://www.geri.soe.purdue.edu/
KidSource Online
When a child is gifted or talented, their parents and educators are faced with many issues and challenges. These articles and digests provide ideas, guidance and activities for both parents and educators of gifted students. While some of these articles are written specifically for educators, they can also benefit parents who are seeking to create or influence a program for their children. http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/pages/ed.gifted.html
Gifted Development Center
The Gifted Development Center serves parents, schools and advocacy groups with information about identification, assessment, counseling, learning styles, programs, presentations and resources for gifted children and adults. http://www.gifteddevelopment.com/
Council for Exceptional Children: The Association for the Gifted
The Association for the Gifted (TAG) was organized as a division of The Council for Exceptional Children in 1958. TAG plays a major part in helping both professionals and parents work more effectively with one of our most precious resources: the gifted child. http://www.cectag.org/
Very Best Kids
Great ideas from Nestle for kids' activities. http://www.verybestkids.com/
