The morning of the 2017 Grand Recognition Ceremony, Duke TIP’s Distinguished Alumni Award winners sat down with two groups of current TIPsters for a roundtable chat. The result is pretty special — multiple generations of TIPsters talking about everything from combatting procrastination and nervousness to attending Duke TIP's Summer Studies Program. … [Read more...] about TIPsters of the Roundtable
video
Learning Communities
One of the best ways to encourage gifted students to embrace their identities as academically talented scholars is to provide them with peer-to-peer contact within a community of like-minded individuals. Not only does this allow accelerated learning to take place at a pace that challenges and motivates gifted students, it can also have some suprising social and emotional benefits as explained in this video by Andrew Samwick (TIP ’82, ’83, ’84), one of TIP's 2016 Distinguished … [Read more...] about Learning Communities