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Selected Homeschool Resources for Gifted Children and Families

Web Sites & Web Articles

Ann Zeise's A to Z Home's Cool Homeschooling Web Site
www.gomilpitas.com/homeschooling

College Planning for Gifted and Talented Youth (ERIC Digest #E492)
http://www.nagc.org/index.aspx?id=202

Davidson Institute
http://www.ditd.org/public/

Hoagies Gifted Education Web Site
www.hoagiesgifted.org

"Homeschooling Gifted Students: An Introductory Guide for Parents" by Jacque Ensign
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/eric/e543.html

Learn in Freedom!
http://learninfreedom.org

"One Profoundly Gifted Kid's Story"
www.educationaloptions.com

Serving Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG)
http://sengifted.org

Uniquely Gifted: Especially for Parents: College
http://www.uniquelygifted.org/especially_for_parents.htm#_College

Books

Albert, David (1999). And the Skylark Sings with Me: Adventures in Homeschooling and Community-Based Education. New Society Publishers

Albert, David (2003). Homeschooling and the Voyage of Self-Discovery: A Journey of Original Seeking. Common Courage Press.

Asher, Donald (2007). Cool Colleges: For the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed, Late Blooming, and Just Plain Different. Ten Speed Press

Berger, Sandra L. (2006). College Planning for Gifted Students: Choosing and Getting into the Right College, third edition. Prufrock Press

Dobson, Linda (2000). Homeschoolers' Success Stories: 15 Adults and 12 Young People Share the Impact That Homeschooling Has Made on Their Lives. Prima Publishing

Dobson, Linda (2000). Homeschoolers' Success Stories: 15 Adults and 12 Young People Share the Impact That Homeschooling Has Made on Their Lives. Prima Publishing

Frost, Maya (2009). The New Global Student: Skip the SAT, Save Thousands on Tuition, and Get a Truly International Education. Crown/Three Rivers Press

Johnson, Ned, and Emily Warner Eskelsen (2006). Conquering the SAT: How Parents Can Help Teens Overcome the Pressure and Succeed. Palgrave Macmillan

Leistico, Agnes (1997). I Learn Better By Teaching Myself; and, Still Teaching Ourselves. Holt Associates

Llewellyn, Grace (1996). Freedom Challenge: African American Homeschoolers. Lowry House

Llewellyn, Grace (1993). Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Don't Go to School. Lowry House

Penn-Nabrit, Paula (2003). Morning by Morning: How We Home-Schooled Our African-American Sons to the Ivy League. Villard

Rivero, Lisa (2000). Gifted Education Comes Home: A Case for Self-Directed Homeschooling. Gifted Education Press

Rivero, Lisa (2002). Creative Home Schooling: A Resource Guide for Smart Families. Great Potential Press

Rivero, Lisa (2008). The Homeschooling Option: How To Decide When It’s Right for Your Family. Palgrave Macmillan

Silverman, Linda Kreger (2002). Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner. DeLeon Publishing

Selected Learning Resources

There is no way that you can try or even learn about all of the many wonderful educational resources for gifted homeschoolers. Here are just a handful of learning resources highly recommended by other parents of gifted homeschooled children. The Web site and books listed above offer many more suggestions.

Critical Thinking Books & Software
www.criticalthinking.com

EPGY (Education Program for Gifted Youth)
www-epgy.stanford.edu

Center for Distance and Independent Study, University of Missouri
http://cdis.missouri.edu

A History of US, by Joy Hakim
http://www.pbs.org

TED Talks: Ideas Worth Spreading
http://www.ted.com

List of Virtual Schools for the Gifted & Regional Talent Search Programs
http://www.cec.sped.org

Key Curriculum Press
www.keypress.com

PBS
www.pbs.org

Royal Fireworks Press
http://www.rfwp.com

Your Public Library
In terms of value for your time and money, nothing beats the library as a resource for gifted homeschoolers! Give yourself permission to spend long, leisurely mornings and afternoons there searching the books, magazines, cd-roms and other resources. Some libraries even have board games and textbooks available for borrowing. Become acquainted with the children's librarian and reference librarian, and ask about teacher resources and reference materials that may be kept on separate shelves. Also, ask whether your library participates in an interlibrary loan program that would allow you to request materials from other local or university libraries.

Open Courseware

The Universities and Web sites below offer free courseware that motivated students can use to learn everything from architecture to zoology.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb

University of California, Berkeley Webcast
http://webcast.berkeley.edu

The Open University
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk

YouTube EDU
http://www.youtube.com/education

Academic Earth
http://academicearth.org

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