... and many of our feelings are shared by others. Anyone old enough to remember watching Cheers in 1982—and you can still watch it in reruns—will remember when Nicholas Colasanto, who played Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso on the first couple years of the series “Cheers,” said some READ MORE
Why Do So Many Smart and Gifted Kids Think They Don’t Like Math?
It may have something to do with the different personality types between the teachers and some students. My closest girlfriend since grade school became a math teacher. To her, math was great and made sense. Our IQs and basic standardized test results are virtually the READ MORE
Early Childhood Screening for Giftedness
Deborah Ruf, PhD ©2022 Gifted programming generally isn’t available for the youngest gifted children. But that doesn’t mean that the classroom teacher or parents can’t provide appropriate instruction and social interactions for students who are ahead of classmates in preschool, READ MORE
The Relativity of Giftedness
When I think of giftedness, I sometimes think about why we want to know about it and how it affects people. To start with, I see high intelligence and giftedness as being about how some people are. Whereas different identification processes are often helpful when trying to READ MORE
Gifted and Humble: How Does That Work?
Most intellectually gifted adults don’t think of themselves as gifted. Smart enough maybe, but not so special as to be gifted. After all, they were lucky, or worked hard, or didn’t get the best grades, or … whatever. Because of this reality, it is that much harder for advocates READ MORE