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Tips for parents on ways to understand children's emotional responses to new or stressful situations.

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Tips for parents on how to spot signs of depression in their children.

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Click here to see different tips and advice about leaving kids home alone. The focus is primarily on safety, and teaching kids about how to handle themselves when home unchaperoned.

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This site from the Department of Education offers tips and game ideas that can make learning to write easier and more interesting for young learners.

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This site from the department of Education offers tips and ideas to make test-taking easier for young learners.

This page is primarily for parents of gifted children, but it includes lists of traits of the gifted and links to resources which classroom teachers might find helpful. A hot topic is the crossover between traits of the gifted and of ADHD children.

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Support the needs of high potential learners through information and resources available at the National Association for Gifted Children. Explore the Educators part of the site to find Gifted Programming Standards, Content Connection resources by subject area, and Teacher's Corner articles (including archives dating back to 2008). The Parents section of the site offers tools for parents, articles, and information on summer camps and programs. Although labeled for Administrators, this section of the site has important information for anyone working with gifted students. Here you will find many videos, fact sheets, and other important information and statistics that relate to gifted education.

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This ERIC Digest provides a long-term college planning strategy for gifted students. Beginning in middle school, the digest suggests a series of concrete steps which can lead to an informed college decision. Requires Acrobat Reader.

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The information on this site was originally developed for limited literacy Spanish and English speaking patients. It offers basic health, nutrition, and lifestyles information in a context which may be suitable for either students or parents in certain specific settings. Lots of illustrations and minimal use of text help make these resources easy to use.

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This site gives a number of statistics regarding public, public charter and private schools. The statics include general data like urban versus rural data, reading scores, and others focused on things like safety and crime. The data is helpful in seeing trends and correlations for things like income levels and the reflection in the safety of schools. Lots of data tables to look through.

This site provides highlights of current research on ADHD, and provides references to specific scientific studies. Most interesting for teachers maybe the tab at the top titled "Start." Slide down to ADDA Resources and find "ADHD Education." There are many articles for help with adult ADHD, too. Find webinars, a directory of ADHD professionals, support groups, workshops and much more.

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Founded in 1987, CHADD is a national nonprofit organization with over 32,000 members that provides support and information to children and adults with ADD and their families. Their site offers information on everything from the latest legislative issues to groundbreaking research to school discipline strategies. Visit the "AD/HD Fact Sheets" page to find tips on effective teaching techniques or to learn how ADD is diagnosed. You can also read news releases on various topics, or check out articles from their quarterly publication, Attention Magazine. A very informative site for teachers and parents.
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This site from Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh offers safety and accident prevention tips for children, teens, parents and guardians, teachers, and health professionals. Children's Hospital has a long tradition of efffective outreach programs to encourage safety and health. This resource is sensibly designed and easy to use.

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Scholastic's site is all about reading for students, parents, librarians, and teachers. Find teacher info for book clubs and lessons, parent ideas for supporting reading at home, loads of fun for kids, and much more. Since Scholastic is "in the business," they of course have things to sell, but there is much available for free.
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tag(s): authors (107), book lists (167), literacy (122)

This ERIC Digest offers a comprehensive, practical strategy for building an advocacy effort to support gifted education. Includes reading and resource notes.

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Internet4classrooms is a free web portal designed to assist anyone who wants to find high quality, free Internet resources to use in classroom instruction, developing project ideas, reinforcing specific subject matter areas both in the class and at home. Information is organized by grade level, or subject area. Web 2.0 tutorials include links for information on: apps for iPod, iTouch, blogs, audio/pod casting, collaboration, graphic organizers, file converters, html editors, open source, organization tools, PLN tools, presentation tools, social bookmarking, survey makers, web browsers, video/photo, Wiki, and Word Cloud Generators. Links for Assessment Assistance give extra ways to assess in a fun technological twist. A daily dose section offers quotes, brain teasers, question of the day, and intersecting trivia. Join an RSS feed to get the latest updated information. Up to date, active links are reviewed continually. At the time of this review the Interactive Test Resource for 7th grade assessment had several broken links.
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tag(s): graphic organizers (48), polls and surveys (49), professional development (385), social networking (61)

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