TAGT Parent Conferences

Tools for Success

TAGT Annual Parent Conference in Austin

TAGT thanks all the parents who were able to attend this event.
The following handouts and slideshows are available in PDF format:

Critical/Creative Thinking Skills & the Six Methods of Visual Learning: Pedagogy and Imagery, by Timothy Gangwer
Finding Pots of Gold: Peers and the Gifted Child, by Stacia Taylor
Gifted Is Not One Size Fits All: The Five Levels of Giftedness, by Stacia Taylor
Guiding Your Gifted Reader, by Sheila Mulbry
Stressed Out! by Elisa Dinkler
Suggested Book Lists, by Sheila Mulbry
Support for Parents of the Gifted, by Len Avecilla
The Texas Education Agency: Gifted Education and Advanced Academics, by Debbie Smith
Twice Exceptional: The Intersection of Giftedness and Learning Difficulties, by Timothy Gangwer

Check back later for more!

Special thanks to our exhibitors:

ACE Academy	Adventures in Learning
Duke TIP	iD Tech Camps
Knowsys Educational Services	Nathan Levy
Summer Institute for the Gifted

Keynote Address by Dr. Patricia Gatto-Walden, It Isn't Always Easy Being Gifted!

Conference bags were provided by Education in Action.

TAGT Parent Mini-Conference in Houston

January 28, 2012• Lone Star College, University Park

TAGT thanks all the parents who attended this event, as well as Saturday morning’s Summer Camp Expo, presented by the Houston Area Cooperative on the Gifted and Talented and the Southeast Cooperative for Gifted and Talented! The following handouts and slideshows are now available in PDF format:

Advocating for the Gifted in the Era of No Child Left Behind, slideshow by Dr. Susan Jackson
Gifted Is Not One Size Fits All: The Five Levels of Giftedness, slideshow by Stacia Taylor
The Intensity of Giftedness: Dabrowski’s Overexcitabilities, slideshow by Dr. Lynette Breedlove
The Intensity of Giftedness: Dabrowski’s Overexcitabilities, handout by Dr. Lynette Breedlove
Step Away from the Child: Letting Your G/T Teen Grow Up, slideshow by Angela Standridge
Steps to Advocacy and Creating Parent Groups, handout by Andrea Badot and Lori Lewis
Support for Parents of the Gifted, slideshow by Len Avecilla

In addition, the following handouts and presentations from the 2011 TAGT Parent Conference are also available:

The ABC's of Giftedness, by Jan Delisle
Beyond the Schoolhouse Walls: Learning on Nights and Weekends, by Len Avecilla
Complexities of Parenting 21st Century Gifted Children, by Len Avecilla
Getting Started in Homeschooling, by Lisa Rivero
Growing with Intensity, by Lisa Rivero
Growing with Intensity in Spanish, Creciendo con la intensidad, by Lisa Rivero
How Do Families of Gifted Children Spell Relief? by Mary Lovell
Is Your Child Jim Carrey? Creative and Imaginational Gifted Kids, by Dr. Benny Hickerson
Online/Distance Learning and Other Web-Based Resources, by Len Avecilla
Perfectionism and Underachievement, by Dr. Benny Hickerson
Forms and Expressions of Intensity, teen workshop by Lisa Rivero

The annual TAGT Parent Conference is a day-long conference for parents of gifted children that focuses on the critical issues and necessary skills for parenting gifted children. Usually held at a local school or training facility in late winter following the TAGT Professional Development Conference, this event typically attracts two to three hundred parents. This year, TAGT will also present a half-day mini-conference in Houston.