Academic Competitions for Gifted Students: A Resource Book for Teachers and Parents

"The book makes an excellent case for competitions as a means to meet the educational needs of gifted students at a time when funding has significantly decreased."
―Joan Smutny, Gifted Specialist, National-Louis University
Author of Acceleration for Gifted Learners, K–5

"The authors are knowledgeable and respected experts in the field of gifted education. I believe there is no other book that provides this valuable information to teachers, parents, and coordinators of gifted programs."
―Barbara Polnick, Assistant Professor
Sam Houston State University

Everything you need to know about academic competitions!

This handy reference serves as a guide for using academic competitions as part of K–12 students′ total educational experience. Covering 170 competitions in several content areas, this handbook offers a brief description of each event plus contact and participation information. The authors list criteria for selecting events that match students′ strengths and weaknesses and also discuss:

• The impact of competitions on the lives of students
• Ways to anticipate and avoid potential problems
• Strategies for maximizing the benefits of competitions
• Access to international and national academic competitions

This second edition offers twice as many competitions as the first, provides indexes by title and by subject area and level, and lists Web sites for finding additional competitions.

Mary K. Tallent-Runnels is a Professor of Educational Psychol­ogy in the College of Education at Texas Tech University. She has over 30 years of experience working with parents and teachers of gifted children ages of 4 to 17. In addition to her time as both a public and private school teacher of gifted students and administrator of gifted programs, she is the former director of the IDEAL program at Texas Tech University. She is the recipient of several teaching and research awards at both the public school and university levels. Her research interests are gifted children and online instruction. She is the author of numerous articles in gifted and talented education as well as in online teaching. She has published in journals such as Gifted Child Quarterly, The Journal for the Education of the Gifted, Roeper Review, G/C/T, Contemporary Educational Psychology, Review of Educational Research, and the Journal of Experimental Education.

Ann C. Candler-Lotven is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Texas A&M University-Texarkana. She has 30 years of experience in the education of students with exceptionalities. During those years, she also worked with the parents and teachers of exceptional students. Her research interests include exceptional learners, learning and student strategies, and gifted students. She has authored numerous articles, books, and book chapters in the field of special education. She has published in Academic Therapy, Child Lan­guage Teaching and Therapy, Gifted Child Quarterly and the Journal for the Education of the Gifted.