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AUGUST 2009

Dear SUBSCRIBER -- Educator/Parent:

Just Published! See the FALL 2009 Online Issue of Gifted Education Press

Quarterly by Clicking the Following Link in Adobe Format:

http://www.giftededpress.com/GEPQFALL2009.pdf

Please note that we are no longer snail mailing hard copies because of high

printing and postage costs. If you would like hard copies snail mailed to

you, there will be a relatively small subscriber fee. Contact me at

gifted@... for the cost.

The FALL 2009 Online Issue of GEPQ contains the following articles:

1. Editorial Comments by Maurice Fisher - Discussion of the Center for

Excellence in Education; the Need for a New National Gifted Advocacy

Organization

2. Preserving the " Sense of Wonder " : An Arts Approach to Engaging Young

Gifted Learners

Joan lin Smutny, Director The Center for Gifted National-Louis

University

3. How is A Teacher of the Gifted Supposed to Teach?

Sanford Aranoff Adjunct Associate Professor of Mathematics and Science

Rider University Lawrenceville, New Jersey

4. The Gifted Arab Child in Israel: Book Summary

Hanna Ben Gurion University at Eilat, Israel

5. Ernest Hemingway: Prose Impressionist for the Gifted

E. Walters Center for the Study of the Humanities in the Schools

See the directions below to access the Members-Only Online Version on the

Gifted Education Press Web Site. GEPQ Online contains all previous issues

(for reference purposes) back to the April 1987 issue.

Special Announcement: For the 2009-10 School Year, I am asking that you

help to support our work in the Gifted Education Field, including Gifted

Education Press Quarterly. You can help us to continue this work by

Purchasing Our Excellent Books on Educating Gifted Students. All of our

books can be ordered directly from us or through Amazon.com. Detailed

information is on the Gifted Education Press Web Site. Thank you!

Please see our recently updated Key Word List of Articles, Authors and

Topics from Gifted Education Press Quarterly and Gifted Education News-Page

for over Twenty Years of information from these periodicals about the

Education of Gifted Students:

Click here - Key Words

If you know a colleague or friend who would like a complimentary copy of the

FALL 2009 Online Issue, tell them to send their request to:

gifted@.... In addition, please see the information on our Web

Site about our books on creative thinking, humanities, science and

mathematics.

Our latest books are as follows. See our GEP Web Site for more details:

http://www.GiftedEdPress.com

1. Maurice D. Fisher, Ph.D. & Eugenia M. Fisher, Ed.D., Editors: Heroes of

Giftedness: An Inspirational Guide for Gifted Students and Their Teachers -

Presenting the Personal Heroes of Twelve Experts on Gifted Education.

Discusses Highly Gifted Individuals who can be used as models for motivating

gifted students to study different fields of knowledge. Further information

can be found at: http://www.giftededpress.com/HEROESOFGIFTEDNESS.htm

2. By Harry T. Roman: Energizing Your Gifted Students' Creative Thinking &

Imagination: Using Design Principles, Team Activities, and Invention

Strategies - A Complete Lesson Guide for Upper Elementary and Middle School

Levels. Contains Extensive Information and Lessons on Such Topics as: Our

Dynamic Brains, Creativity - The Natural Human Tendency, What Edison

Teaches Us, and Creativity in Your Classroom. Further information can be

found at:

http://www.giftededpress.com/HARRYTROMANCREATIVITY.htm

3. By E. Myers: Golden Quills: Creative Thinking and Writing Lessons

for Middle-School Gifted Students. Contains Twenty-Seven Challenging Lessons

for Stimulating Creative Learning in Language Arts. Further information can

be found at: http://www.giftededpress.com/REMYERS.htm

4. By Judy Micheletti: MORE SNIBBLES: Serendipitous Seasons. This book

focuses on how to motivate gifted students to be more creative at their

school and home, and it contains several delightful line drawings that will

entice the imagination of all curious children and adults. Further

information can be found at: http://www.giftededpress.com/SNIBBLES2.htm

5. By Harry T. Roman: Solar Power, Fuel Cells, Wind Power and Other

Important Environmental Studies for Upper Elementary and Middle School

Gifted Students and Their Teachers: A Technology, Problem-Solving and

Invention Guide. It is perfect for use in Tech Ed, pre-engineering and

environmental courses and study units. Further information can be found at:

http://www.giftededpress.com/HARRYTROMAN.htm

Contact me if you have any ideas for new articles or books that GEP can

publish.

In JUNE 2009, EdNews.org interviewed me about the present state of Gifted

Education. Please see this interview at the following link:

http://ednews.org/articles/an-interview-with-maurice-fisher-phd-publisher-of-gif\

ted-education-press-and-gifted-education-press-quarterly.html

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Maurice Fisher, Ph.D., Publisher

P.S. A past issue of Time Magazine (August 27, 2007) contains a lead article

entitled, The Genius Problem. This article includes information from an

essay published in the Spring 1996 issue of GEPQ - " Anti-Intellectualism in

Secondary Schools: The Problem Continues " by Schroeder-. Use

the instructions below to access this and many other essays from our GEPQ

Online Link.

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future issues will be available on this Web Page at the beginning of

September, December, March, June.

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