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Academic Competitions for Gifted Students : a Resource Book for Teachers and Parents.
This handbook covers 170 competitions, criteria for selecting events that match students' strengths/weaknesses, strategies for maximizing the benefits of competitions, and ways to avoid potential problems.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks :
SAGE Publications,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Introduction: Making Decisions about Competitive Programs for Gifted Students
- How to Use This Book
- Characteristics of Good Competitions
- Reference
- Chapter 1
- Selecting, Preparing for, and Participating in Competitions
- Selected Characteristics and Needs of Gifted and Talented Students: How They Influence Contest Participation
- Effects of Competition: Good News
- Effects of Competition: Bad News
- How to Anticipate and Avoid Problems in the Use of Competitions
- How to Maximize benefits from Competitions
- References
- Chapter 2
- Competition Descriptions
- AAA High School Travel Challenge
- AATSP Elementary/Middle School Poster Contest
- Academic Games Leagues of America National Tournament
- Academic Triathlon
- Achievement Awards in Writing
- Alliance for Young Artists and Writers Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
- All-USA High School Academic Team Competition
- Amateur Poetry Contest
- American Computer Science League
- American Enterprise Speech Contest
- American History Essay Contest
- American Invitational Mathematics Exam
- American Mathematics Competitions
- American Mathematics Contest 8
- American Regions Mathematics League
- American Scholastics Mathematics Competition
- American Society of Newspaper Editors, Quill and Scroll International Writing, Photo Contest
- American Veterans (AMVETS) Americanism Program
- Ann Arlys Bowler Poetry Contest
- ARTS Recognition and Talent Search
- Association of Educational Publishers Student Publishing Awards
- Ayn Rand Essay Contest
- Baker's Plays High School Playwriting Contest
- BEST Robotics Competition
- Biz Plan Competition
- Botball Robotics
- Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge
- CANE (Classical Association of New England) Writing Contest
- Christopher Columbus Awards.
- Civic Education Project: Civic Week
- Clarke-Bradbury Science Fiction Competition
- Classical Association of New England
- Concord Review Emerson Prize
- Continental Mathematics League
- Creative Writing Essay Contest
- Cricket League Contest
- Destination Imagination
- Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge
- Doors to Diplomacy
- DuPont Challenge Science Essay Awards Program
- Duracell/NSTA Scholarship Competition
- eCybermission
- Edventures Robotics Contest
- EngineerGirl Essay Contest
- Federal Reserve Bank Fed Challenge
- Federal Reserve Bank Student Essay Contest
- Fire Fighting Robot Contest
- First Middle-Grade Novel Contest
- FIRST Robotics Competition
- First Step to Nobel Prize in Physics
- First Young Adult Novel
- Foundations for Life National Essay Program & Contest
- Frazier Institute Student Essay Contest
- Freedoms Foundation National Awards Program
- Future City Competition
- Future Problem Solving Program
- George S. & Stella M. Knight Essay Contest
- Harry Singer Foundation Essay Contests
- Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament
- High School Communications Competition
- "Idea of America" Essay Contest
- Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
- Intel Science Talent Search
- International Brain Bee
- International Mathematics Olympiad
- International Student Media Festival
- Invent America!
- Invitational Mathematics Examination
- Jane Austen Society of North America Essay Contest
- Japan Bowl
- JFK Profiles in Courage Essay Contest
- Joseph S. Rumbaugh Historical Oration Contest
- Junior Engineering Technical Society Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics, and Science
- Junior Science and Humanities Symposia
- Kids are Authors
- KidsBookshelf Contests
- Kids can Write Contest
- Kids Philosophy Slam
- Knowledge Master Open
- Laws of Life Essay Contest.
- League of American Poets free Poetry Contest
- Let's Get Real
- Letters about Literature Competition
- Mandelbrot Competition
- Manningham Student Poetry Awards
- MATHCOUNTS
- Math Leagues
- Math Olympiads for Elementary Schools
- Medusa Mythology Examination
- Merlyn's Pen Literary Magazine Contest and Critique
- Modern Woodmen of America School Speech
- NAACP ACT-SO
- NASA Space Settlement Contest
- National Achievement Scholarship Program
- National African American History Academic Challenge Bowl
- National American Indian Science and Engineering Fair
- National Beta Club Convention
- National Biblical Greek Exam
- National Canon Envirothon
- National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Speech and Debate Tournament
- National Consumers League: LifeSmarts
- National Council on Economic Education and Goldman Sachs Foundation Economics Challenge
- National Engineering Design Challenge (Javits-Wagner-O'Day/Junior Engineering Technical Society)
- National Federation of Press Women High School Communications Contest
- National Forensic League National Tournament
- National French Contest (Le Grand Concours)
- National Geography Bee
- National German Test
- National Greek Examination
- National High School Oratorical Contest
- National High School Student Solar Design Contest
- National History Day
- National Latin Exam
- National Mythology Exam
- National Peace Essay Contest
- National Portuguese Exam
- National Schools Project Poetry Contest
- National Science Bowl
- National Science Decathlon
- National Science Olympiad
- National Society of Black Engineers Try-Math-A-Lon Competition
- National Spanish Exam
- National Vocabulary Championship
- National Women's Hall of Fame Essay and New Media Contest
- National Young Astronomer Award
- Nob Yoshigahara Puzzle Design Competition
- Odyssey of the Mind.
- Ohio State University Press the Journal Award in Poetry
- Olympiad of Spoken Russian
- Panasonic Academic Challenge
- Physics Bowl
- President's Environmental Youth Awards
- Program to Recognize Excellence in Student Literary Magazines
- Promising Young Writers
- Prudential Spirit of Community Awards
- Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
- Science Olympiad
- Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee
- Sea World/Busch Gardens/Fujifilm Environmental Excellence Awards
- Siemens Foundation Competition in Math, Science, and Technology
- Society of Professional Journalists High School Essay Contest
- Student Science Fiction and Fantasy Contest
- Thespian Playworks
- ThinkQuest
- Toshiba National Science Teachers Association/ExploraVision Awards Program
- UNA-USA National High School Essay Contest
- USA Biology Olympiad
- U.S. Academic Decathlon
- USA Computing Olympiad
- USA Mathematical Olympiad
- USA Mathematical Talent Search
- U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad
- Vegetarian Resource Group Essay
- Veterans of Foreign Wars Patriot's Pen
- Veterans of Foreign Wars Voice of Democracy Program
- VSA Arts Playwright Discovery Program
- Weekly Mathematics Contest
- Weekly Reader's "What's Your Story?" Student Publishing Awards
- West Point Bridge Design Contest
- WordMasters Challenge
- Writer's Digest Annual Writing Contest
- Young Epidemiology Scholars Program
- Young Naturalist Awards
- Young Playwrights Festival
- Web Sites for Finding Other Competitions
- Index of Competitions by Title
- Index of Competitions by Subject Area and Level
- Index.