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At IST we believe highly capable learners are those with exceptionally advanced ability in at least one specific domain (intellectual, creative, social, perceptual or physical) at a point in time, such that a learner’s needs can be best met with significant accommodations or modifications to the learning context.

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Instantly access over 40,000 of the best books & videos for kids on Epic

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While gifted students may excel in some areas, they

may be experiencing challenges in other areas of

learning.

Nature of ability and implications for learning—

students may:

• reason well (good thinker)

• learn rapidly

• have extensive vocabulary

• have an excellent memory

• have a long attention span (if interested)

• be sensitive (feelings hurt easily)

• show compassion

• be perfectionists

• be intense

• be morally sensitive

• have strong curiosity

• ask lots of questions

• draw inferences

• invent things

• love challenges and complexity

• have a high degree of perseverance in their

interests

• have a high degree of energy

• prefer older companions or adults
have a wide range of interests

• have a great sense of humour

• be early or avid readers (if too young to read,

love being read to)

• be concerned with justice and fairness, often

with a well-developed sense of justice

• be keen observers

• have a vivid imagination

• be highly creative

• tend to question authority

• enjoy number work/games/puzzles

• be good at puzzles.

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The exact skills you need

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State standards

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IXL | Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Spanish

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IXL is the world's most popular subscription-based learning site for K-12. Used by over 15 million students, IXL provides personalized learning in more than 10,000 topics, covering math, language arts, science, social studies, and Spanish. Interactive questions, awards, and certificates keep kids motivated as they master skills.

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Your students' proficiency in math could increase by more than 36%!

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Exemplars offers rich performance tasks for assessment & instruction in math, science & writing. Rubrics & student anchor papers are included. Free samples. Tools for virtual online learning and teaching remotely.

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Interest-Based Online Learning

GOA offers high school students in public, independent, charter, and international schools the chance to learn in a highly collaborative, global learning community, building the skills they'll need for college, career, and life.

To ensure all students have the opportunity to build these skills, GOA courses:

Are small (average teacher-to-student ratio is 1:18) to ensure personalized support.

Are led by an expert teacher trained and supported by GOA's staff.

Bring together global rosters of students from a variety of different schools to create unique opportunities for collaboration and perspective-sharing.

Are primarily asynchronous: teachers design the coursework and calendar, and students work within their own school schedules, gaining important independent learning skills along the way.

GOA's mission is to reimagine learning to empower students and educators to thrive in a globally networked society. The Student Program reflects our commitment to students and to designing learning environments that are equitable and inclusive.

The Student Experience

Since GOA's founding in 2011, our Student Program has brought together students and teachers from around the world to learn together in high-quality, relationships-based online classes. We have built a diverse set of offerings, including semester and yearlong courses, an online capstone project and conference, and a unique summer program. In all cases, GOA learning experiences are led by expert teachers who are committed to knowing students, to connecting them to relevant academic content, and to engaging them in rigorous work that deepens understanding and builds skills that matter in school and in life.

What We Believe

High-quality online learning is connected, relevant, and flexible.

Students who take a GOA course will learn far more than just the content of that course. Learning how to learn online is a lifelong skill. All of our courses are designed to support the development of six core competencies. How can GOA help support your portrait of a graduate?

"I loved taking Prisons and the Criminal Law. Our final project was a reform proposal for any part of the justice system, from policing reforms, to sentencing mandates, to prison reforms. I advocated for the removal of solitary confinement as a treatment for mental health issues and proposed it should be replaced with a group therapy system used in some New York City jails called CAPS. I got to advocate for a real, tangible change in something I am passionate about." Ava Student, The Downtown School

"This was my son's 3 rd class. This class and teacher provided a nice balance of challenge and relaxed learning. He still talks about much of what he learned in the class. He is writing to his head of school at high school to incorporate more counseling for students on eating disorders as a result of what he learned in the class."

"My first ever course was Problem Solving with Engineering and Design. I learned a lot of new things about a subject I loved at a higher level than taught at school, and I was able to collaborate with so many peers around the world. The course projects were made to fit our own interests, so I always was looking forward to working with our modules. I'm taking another course this semester because I enjoyed my experience so much!" Sarah Student, UNIS Hanoi

Flexible, Independent Learning

GOA classes are mostly asynchronous: teachers design the coursework and calendar, and students work on their own schedules, gaining important independent learning skills along the way.

Frequently Asked Questions

Global Connections

GOA classes are small. Students work with a caring, expert teacher from a member school and get to know and collaborate with peers from around the world.

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Student Program | Passion-Based Online Classes

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Passion-based high school courses, global learning, and flexible online experiences

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Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY)

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Latest at CTY

New Project Explores Use of AI in the Gifted Classroom

CTY will partner with others from across Johns Hopkins University to customize an AI large language model to effectively serve as a "tutor on the side" to help a student's learning process during the course.

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Research

Our dedication to supporting young scholars goes far beyond the classroom. Since CTY first began in 1979, we've been at the forefront of research in gifted education-equipping educators to better identify, serve, and challenge their most advanced students.

Support for Educators

Interested in working with us? We provide a variety of resources and assistance for educators and institutions alike: identifying exceptional students, integrating CTY coursework, offering professional development, and much more.

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Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY)

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Online and summer gifted programs for young scholars in grades 2-12, education and guidance for families of gifted and talented youth.

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Once you have identified a student who may be potentially a HCL:
- Share your observations with the LS teacher?
- Have a conversation with parents and seek out background information (previous reports)?
- Look at screeners and assessment tools to gather more data?
(At IST we use internal assessments, Key Maths, MAP, DRA,)

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The Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) is a multiple-choice K-12 assessment that measures reasoning skills with different types of verbal, quantitative, and nonverbal questions.  The CogAT is a group-administered aptitude test commonly given as an entrance exam into school’s gifted programs.

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Learn how you can optimize instruction for all students with the ability test more educators choose.

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https://www.myimaths.com/

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Providing coverage for a range of international curricula for ages 5-18, MyiMaths offers interactive lessons, "booster packs" for revision, and assignable homeworks and worksheets, along with a wealth of resources that will help you deliver your teaching in the classroom and at home to develop your students' confidence and fluency in maths

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MyiMaths is an interactive online teaching and homework subscription website for schools that provides coverage for a range of international curricula for ages 11-18 including the International Baccalaureate, Cambridge Assessment International Education, Edexcel and OxfordAQA. MyiMaths offers a wealth of resources that will help you deliver your teaching in the classroom and develop your students' confidence and fluency in maths.

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Gifted Social & Emotional Needs of Gifted Children

Many gifted behaviors and traits include an emotional or social component. Parents of gifted children find that both the challenges and the joys of raising a gifted child extend beyond the classroom.

How Does Being Gifted Affect Social and Emotional Development?

Being gifted is part of an individual's identity and, as such, does not only apply to academic settings. Profoundly gifted children experience their emotions and social development in a way that can significantly differ from neurotypical children. Supporting your gifted child includes looking at their emotional needs at home and helping them build social skills outside of a school setting in addition to providing opportunities for intellectual growth.

How Does Giftedness Affect Emotional Development?

While every gifted child's experience is different, two of the main terms associated with the emotional development of gifted children are intensity and asynchrony.

Intensity as described by Christine Fonesca is, " gifted individuals approach life. At its best, intensity is the driving passion that enables some people to achieve amazing things - in any domain. But at its worst, it is the turmoil that has the power to consume these same individuals from time to time as they learn how to manage that aspect of their personality." Linked to emotional development, intensity in gifted children may manifest when their peers or the world at large fail to align with their inner compass for how the world ought to be in their eyes. Examples may include feeling troubled over ethical issues, rigid rule-following at play time, a vivid imagination, and even existential questioning at a very young age. Highly gifted children often struggle to express this intensity and may either direct this energy inwardly, presenting as moodiness or anxiety, or direct this energy outwardly as tantrums or yelling and outbursts.

Asynchrony is also closely linked to the gifted child's emotional development. Asynchronous development in gifted children means that their growth, academically, emotionally, physically, or socially, is not uniform. Profoundly gifted children in particular may be intellectually operating at a 10 th grade level at age 9 but have not mastered riding a bike or handwriting at the same time. In the emotional domain, gifted children experience the frustration of an intellect that is miles ahead of their physical self and their educational setting. Furthermore, asynchrony can mean that gifted children may lack the emotional coping skills to process their big feelings and rich inner life.

How Does Giftedness Affect Social Development?

The social development of gifted children is often most strongly shaped by a lack of like-minded peers who share their interests, especially early in life. Extroverted and introverted gifted children alike often describe feeling that they lack a "true friend." The social development of many gifted children mirrors their academic development in that they are often ready for a more mature friendship at an earlier age compared to their age-peers who might only be concerned with having someone to play with.

may occur for gifted children who feel that no one understands them. Gifted girls in particular are at risk for going "underground" and hiding their abilities to fit in with their age-peers. Helping these gifted students succeed socially and emotionally is often linked to finding the appropriate academic outlets though as gifted students may find like-minded peers once accelerated, through an academic summer experience, or by engaging with a niche interest and meeting others who share their passions. Anxiety and social struggles

How Can Parents Nurture the Social-Emotional Development of Their Gifted Children?

Parents play an important role in nurturing the social-emotional development of their gifted children by being advocates for their children in school and beyond. This can help address problems with self-image, perfectionism, uneven development and depression. Here are some ways parents can improve their gifted child's social-emotional learning:

Provide opportunities for enrichment through programs and activities outside the classroom

Enhance peer relations by allowing the child to connect with intellectual peers who are a similar mental age

Establish a professionally guided, ongoing support group of parents of gifted children who can share their experiences of raising their gifted children

Continuously enlighten educators who may not be able to recognize the needs of their gifted child

Most of all, it is important to remember gifted children are children first. They need guidance and understanding to help them learn to regulate their emotions and overcome social challenges they may be experiencing. The Davidson Institute works with families of profoundly gifted students to provide support in addition to hosting social experiences where these children can feel seen by their cognitive peers.

More Social & Emotional Resources for Gifted Children:

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Parents nurture the social-emotional development of gifted children by being advocates for their child's school and enrichment experiences.

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Meeting student learning diversity in the classroom

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Meeting student learning diversity in the classroom

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We are committed to ensuring that the potential of each intellectually gifted student is recognised, nurtured and developed. Learn about the Gifted Education Programme and how we help intellectually gifted students realise their full potential.

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We are committed to ensuring that the potential of each intellectually gifted student is recognised, nurtured and developed. Learn about the Gifted Education Programme and how we help intellectually gifted students realise their full potential.