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Kathi Kearney M.A. Ed.
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Homeschooling The Gifted

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Kathi Kearney M.A. Ed.

Kathi Kearney, M.A. Ed., currently teaches gifted students at the Noble VI School in Berwick, ME and is also a Professional Associate with the Gifted Development Center in Denver, CO. She is the founder of the Hollingworth Center for Highly Gifted Children, a national resource and support network
for exceptionally gifted children and their families. She was an instructor in talented and gifted education at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa for two years. Kathi has worked with children as a teacher and administrator in a wide variety of settings, urban and rural, in public, private, religious, and home schools. She is the Past Chair of the Conceptual Foundations Division of the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), and has contributed scholarly journal articles on such topics as assessment, the highly gifted child, rural and distance learning, minority groups in gifted education, and Leta Hollingworths work on children with IQ scores above 180. Her most recent research project involved conducting validation studies of the new Stanford Binet Fifth Edition for Riverside Publishing.

Topic: Homeschooling the Gifted

When: September 18 to 20, 2003

Gifted students are invited to participate!!!
(Those who are younger than 13 years old must have parental permission submitted to the webmistress to post online)

Pre-Conference Reading

BASIC INFO ON HOMESCHOOLING & HOMESCHOOLING THE GIFTED:

"Staying Home From School" by Lynn Schnaiburg (Education Week):

http://www.edweek.org/ew/vol-15/38home.h15
"Homeroom: Debunking the Myths of Homeschooling" by Lisa Rivero:
http://www.giftedbooks.com/aart_rivero.html

"Homeschooling Gifted Students" An Introductory Guide for Parents" by
Jacque Ensign (ERIC Digest):
http://ericec.org/digests/e543.html

"Homeschooling Highly Gifted Children": by Kathi Kearney:
http://www.hollingworth.org/HomSchHG.html

"When Schools Fail: Is Homeschooling Right for You and Your Highly
Gifted Child?" by Karen Morse:
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/schools_fail.htm
PARENT STORIES:

"Radical Possibilities for the Profoundly Gifted" by Gay:
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/radical_possibility.htm

"Asynchrony: Homeschooling an Exceptionally Gifted Child" by Hilary Cohen:
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/asynchrony.htm

"Highly Gifted Children at Home" by Karen Morse:
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/hg_at_home.htm

"Homeschooling: A Family Affair" by Suzy:
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/home_schooling.htm

Welcome to the e-conference on Homeschooling Gifted Children, and thank you
to everyone for inviting me to be the guest speaker! (or is that "guest
wordprocessor" LOL!)

I have divided up this three-day conference into three separate topics:

DAY 1: THE "NUTS AND BOLTS" OF HOMESCHOOLING GIFTED CHILDREN:
A brief introduction to the history of homeschooling gifted children, followed by an exploration of the following questions: How do I know if homeschooling is right for our family? When should I take a gifted child out of school? What about curriculum? Which homeschooling approaches or methods are right for my child (and our family)? What about enrichment in a homeschooling setting? What about acceleration? What unusual legal issues might arise when homeschooling a gifted child?

DAY 2: HOMESCHOOLING GIFTED CHILDREN AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL:
Many gifted children who homeschool and are allowed to progress at their own rate end up beginning high school level work in some subjects before they are of typical high school age (sometimes many years before!) Thus, the second day of the conference will focus specifically on issues surrounding homeschooling gifted children who are ready for high school level curriculum in at least one area. We will focus on such questions as how to know when a gifted child is ready for high school level work, how to create transcripts, preparing for college, and managing courses at dual (or triple, or quadruple. ..)grade levels all at the same time in the same child.

DAY 3: POTPOURRI: QUESTIONS, RESOURCES, AND HOW HOMESCHOOLING IS CHANGING
THE FACE OF GIFTED EDUCATION.
The third day is "anything goes!" Feel free to ask any questions, from those about curriculum to policy issues to the future of homeschooling.

This conference will work best if everyone participates with questions,
comments, and lively discussion! I look forward to meeting you all!

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