Tall Poppies magazine

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Tall Poppies is a quality magazine aimed at gifted children and their families, professionals in the field of gifted education, and the general public. It is published three times a year and posted to all NZAGC members (including overseas members) as part of their subscription.

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Articles from March 2012's Tall Poppies and earlier issues
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• Accentuating the positive. Paula Robinson writes about the effects of the Christchurch earthquakes on the New Brighton Community Preschool and Nursery (March '12)
  
  
• A sweet taste of the Big Apple. Vito Nicholas is studying Design at Parsons New School for Design in New York (March '12)
  
  
• A practice chasm in early childhood education. Melanie Wong and Jens Hansen suggest provision for G&T education have diminished under the current regime. (March '12)
  
  
• Flying the flag in Prague Elaine Le Sueur was in Prague to promote New Zealand's successful bid to host the 2013 conference (Nov '11)
  
  
• How much is too much? Steven G. Little and Angeleque Akin-Little ask is leisure time a thing of the past for today's adolescents?(Nov '11)
  
  
• Parents' Stories Parents from the Christchurch branch of the NZAGC have put together this guide to raising twice-exceptional (2E) children. (Nov '11)
  
  ... and from earlier editions:
• A hit and miss affair An Auckland mother writes about the ups and downs of having a twice-exceptional son. (July '11)
  
  
• Ask an expert Marilyn Stafford, the NZAGC's Gifted Advisor, answers questions on how to explain giftedness to family and friends (July '11)
  
  
• Standing by my broken city By Emma Price, 17, a former member of Christchurch Explorers who is now a second- year psychology student at Canterbury University (July '11)
  
  
• Helping children to get through Rose Blackett offers advice on how to help children cope with the Christchurch earthquake(March '11)
  
  
• Star teaching by Rod Fee (March '11)
  
  
• Acceleration: a personal view by Jessica Bucknell (March '11)
  
  
• Too many cats by Amber Edwards (November '10)
  
  
• Where are they now? by Claire Szabo(November '10)
  
  
• Q&A with Deborah Fraser (November '10)
  
  
• Choosing to Home School by Rebecca Reckin (July '10)
  
  
• Uni on Wheels by Jean Hendy-Harris (July '10)
  
  
• Q&A with Jill Bevan-Brown (July '10)
  
  
• Allowing flowers to bloom by Judy Selvaraj(February '10)
  
  
• Watching the effects of TV by Dr Estelle Irving (February '10)
  
  
• Teaching children to think by Amanda Diehl (February '10)
  
  
• Interview with Michael Piechowski by Rosemary Cathcart (November '09)
  
  
• Slipping Back Into Paradise by Jeffrey Moussaief Masson (November '09)
  
  
• Give Them Books, Give Them Wings by Sara Meadows (November '09)
  
  
• Testing Times in Vancouver by Lynn Beresford (November '09)
  
  
• Quiveringly Alive by Pam Lyons (July 09)
  
  
• Life on the Ocean Wave by Steve Cutler (July 09)
  
  
• Gifted Policies
  
  
• Work with gifted children in Russia - by Denis M. Zhilin
  
  
• References for 'Nurturing Golden Children' in Tall Poppies Vol 29 no 3
  
  
• Why Help the Gifted? - Part One - by Peter Walters
  
  
• Why Help the Gifted? - Part Two - by Peter Walters
  
  
• Why Help the Gifted? - Part Three - by Peter Walters
  
  
• I think in pictures, you teach in words: The gifted visual-spatial learner - by Lesley Sword. www.giftedservices.com.au
  
  
• Gifted/ADD? Or Gifted/Learning Disabled? Removing the mask of frustration - by Carole Bruzzano-Ricci
  
  
• A global view of strategies for visual spatial learners - Kay Pittelkow (287 kB)
  
  
• The mind map for visual spatial learners - Kay Pittelkow (55 kB)
  
  
• Variety is the spice of life: multiple intelligence and the gifted - Kay Pittelkow (318 kB)