CHIP Foundation e-guides
This is the list of our e-guides currently available for purchase. All e-guides have a Glossary of Terms in the Appendix which is common to all e-guides. A more detailed abstract and table of contents is available for each e-guide.
Our e-guides presume no previous knowledge. Those marked with an asterisk - * - contain material of a more theoretical nature and you may find these e-guides a more challenging read.
In order to protect The Foundation's intellectual property, our e-guides are 'locked', and cannot be printed, copied or edited. However, you can access your e-guide on multiple devices - computer, tablet, smartphone (provided you have a PDF-reading program).
PayPal is our preferred system of payment. E-guides will be sent to your PayPal verified email address within three (3) working days of payment receipt. For EFT or other payment methods, please contact us.
e-guide: Acceleration
(Last edited 2nd June, 2013)
41 pages
Research suggests – and parents and children corroborate – that for many highly able children the curriculum in a regular school moves too slowly or is ‘out-of-synch’ with the student’s learning needs. In Australia the greater majority of gifted or intellectually able children are educated in regular schools and in grade-for-age classrooms. For some high potential students (certainly not the majority) the school may offer a ‘differentiated curriculum,’ they may suggest a single subject acceleration or even a year level acceleration. It is this last which seems to engender the greatest discomfort to educators and causes the most heated debate. Parents – it must be said – do not always understand why this is the case.
Cost: $16.45
e-guide: Achievement and Motivation Influences
(Last edited 9th Oct, 2011)
21 pages
This e-guide examines myriad influences, both internal and external, that impact on the ability of CHIP to understand and optimise their learning experiences so that they will experience firstly, the motivation to learn and subsequently, authentic achievement.
CHIP are not an homogenous group and their approach to learning is a personal response to the learning environment in which they find themselves. As a consequence CHIP may react to the wider community of school and the peer group differently. Because CHIP not only need to learn how to learn but also how to fail, engagement with their learning through appropriate challenges is important. When perceptions of the child as a learner are viewed differently by the parent and teacher as they sometimes are, there will be implications for both achievement and motivation.
This e-guide is a resource for parents in addressing the issues that CHIP experience when relating to their environment, both at home and the wider setting of school.
Cost: $16.45
e-guide: IQ Tests
(Last edited 7th Oct, 2011)
32 pages
Sometimes parents are uncertain what is involved in testing a child and do not know a great deal about IQ tests and what is involved. This e-guide is designed to give you the background you need to understand what an IQ test measures and how it appears to the child so that you can make an informed decision about whether to proceed.
The e-guide requires no previous information and is able to be read by parents and adults who may have little technical knowledge. Find out something of the history, different conceptions of intelligence and a background of what is involved in the two most common types of IQ assessments: the Wechsler and Stanford-Binet Scales. A few (fictionalised) items are shown to confirm that to the child these test items really do look like puzzles with pictures and blocks. Whether you are wanting to make an informed decision or even if you have already had an assessment and do not fully understand the significance of the score this e-guide should be able to help.
Cost: $16.45
e-guide: Micro-CHIP
(Last edited 7th Oct, 2011)
25 pages
The toddler and preschool years, the micro-CHIP years, are the start of the long journey for CHIP and their families. Perhaps, the first step is to explore the possibility that your child is a micro-CHIP.
Many parents only become aware of the fact that their child may be a micro-CHIP when they realise that their child seems to have a different set of skills and abilities from others at playgroup of toddler group, or that they seem to be developing and a faster pace.
We discuss some of the major issues surrounding the identification, recognition and raising of micro-CHIP, and offer some tips to navigate your pathway through the early years.
Cost: $16.45
e-guide: Primary-Age CHIP
(Last edited 7th Oct, 2011)
44 pages
CHIP enter school carrying the baggage of different experiences. Some already have established themselves as future rocket scientists, saviours of the environment, doctors, vets. These are the bright-eyed enthusiasts who may have mastered the alphabet and phonics and are independent readers. They may also have an understanding of basic numerical processes. Their parents may be pleased, or perhaps bemused, by the abilities of their offspring but overall they will see school as an opportunity for their children to continue to learn.
In school the interface between a child and their classmates sets up even more opportunities for the comparisons that occur in toddler groups and kindergartens. The knowledge base of CHIP, their speed of learning, their intellectual curiosity, often their quality of overall liveliness sets them apart from the child of more average abilities.
Cost: $16.45
e-guide: CHIP-A (Adolescent CHIP)
(Last edited 8th Oct, 2011)
30 pages
This e-guide discusses the characteristics common to adolescence and the double difficulty experienced by CHIP-A. The media-driven sub-culture and its effects on youth are examined, as is the apparent contradiction of wanting to be an individual, while not seeming to be different. The guide examines the need for balance in the light of the isolation which can be experienced by the individual who refuses to compromise their individuality in order to function within the culture.
The phenomenon of under-achievement and its causes and presentation are discussed. The “boredom” complaint, as opposed to mature responsibility, often complicates under-achievement. Parents have to cope with issues of self-understanding, identity and gender roles among the many other lesser challenges confronted by their adolescent child.
Cost: $16.45
e-guide: Psychosocial Development *
(Last edited 8th Oct, 2011)
34 pages
Psychosocial development is the process that happens to all individuals, not just CHIP, as they interact with society in increasingly complex ways. CHIP are not always well understood. We have tried to look at their development in the same framework of development experienced by all children.
What we have attempted to do is to write in a workable format about the experiences and expected responses that you can look for as your CHIP grows through their early, formative years and into early adulthood. This material is like a sketch in that it is a simplification of incredibly complex interactions with life and society in which all children are involved, not just CHIP.
Cost: $16.45
Our e-guides presume no previous knowledge. Those marked with an asterisk - * - contain material of a more theoretical nature and you may find these e-guides a more challenging read.
In order to protect The Foundation's intellectual property, our e-guides are 'locked', and cannot be printed, copied or edited. However, you can access your e-guide on multiple devices - computer, tablet, smartphone (provided you have a PDF-reading program).
PayPal is our preferred system of payment. E-guides will be sent to your PayPal verified email address within three (3) working days of payment receipt. For EFT or other payment methods, please contact us.
e-guide: Acceleration
(Last edited 2nd June, 2013)
41 pages
Research suggests – and parents and children corroborate – that for many highly able children the curriculum in a regular school moves too slowly or is ‘out-of-synch’ with the student’s learning needs. In Australia the greater majority of gifted or intellectually able children are educated in regular schools and in grade-for-age classrooms. For some high potential students (certainly not the majority) the school may offer a ‘differentiated curriculum,’ they may suggest a single subject acceleration or even a year level acceleration. It is this last which seems to engender the greatest discomfort to educators and causes the most heated debate. Parents – it must be said – do not always understand why this is the case.
Cost: $16.45
e-guide: Achievement and Motivation Influences
(Last edited 9th Oct, 2011)
21 pages
This e-guide examines myriad influences, both internal and external, that impact on the ability of CHIP to understand and optimise their learning experiences so that they will experience firstly, the motivation to learn and subsequently, authentic achievement.
CHIP are not an homogenous group and their approach to learning is a personal response to the learning environment in which they find themselves. As a consequence CHIP may react to the wider community of school and the peer group differently. Because CHIP not only need to learn how to learn but also how to fail, engagement with their learning through appropriate challenges is important. When perceptions of the child as a learner are viewed differently by the parent and teacher as they sometimes are, there will be implications for both achievement and motivation.
This e-guide is a resource for parents in addressing the issues that CHIP experience when relating to their environment, both at home and the wider setting of school.
Cost: $16.45
e-guide: IQ Tests
(Last edited 7th Oct, 2011)
32 pages
Sometimes parents are uncertain what is involved in testing a child and do not know a great deal about IQ tests and what is involved. This e-guide is designed to give you the background you need to understand what an IQ test measures and how it appears to the child so that you can make an informed decision about whether to proceed.
The e-guide requires no previous information and is able to be read by parents and adults who may have little technical knowledge. Find out something of the history, different conceptions of intelligence and a background of what is involved in the two most common types of IQ assessments: the Wechsler and Stanford-Binet Scales. A few (fictionalised) items are shown to confirm that to the child these test items really do look like puzzles with pictures and blocks. Whether you are wanting to make an informed decision or even if you have already had an assessment and do not fully understand the significance of the score this e-guide should be able to help.
Cost: $16.45
e-guide: Micro-CHIP
(Last edited 7th Oct, 2011)
25 pages
The toddler and preschool years, the micro-CHIP years, are the start of the long journey for CHIP and their families. Perhaps, the first step is to explore the possibility that your child is a micro-CHIP.
Many parents only become aware of the fact that their child may be a micro-CHIP when they realise that their child seems to have a different set of skills and abilities from others at playgroup of toddler group, or that they seem to be developing and a faster pace.
We discuss some of the major issues surrounding the identification, recognition and raising of micro-CHIP, and offer some tips to navigate your pathway through the early years.
Cost: $16.45
e-guide: Primary-Age CHIP
(Last edited 7th Oct, 2011)
44 pages
CHIP enter school carrying the baggage of different experiences. Some already have established themselves as future rocket scientists, saviours of the environment, doctors, vets. These are the bright-eyed enthusiasts who may have mastered the alphabet and phonics and are independent readers. They may also have an understanding of basic numerical processes. Their parents may be pleased, or perhaps bemused, by the abilities of their offspring but overall they will see school as an opportunity for their children to continue to learn.
In school the interface between a child and their classmates sets up even more opportunities for the comparisons that occur in toddler groups and kindergartens. The knowledge base of CHIP, their speed of learning, their intellectual curiosity, often their quality of overall liveliness sets them apart from the child of more average abilities.
Cost: $16.45
e-guide: CHIP-A (Adolescent CHIP)
(Last edited 8th Oct, 2011)
30 pages
This e-guide discusses the characteristics common to adolescence and the double difficulty experienced by CHIP-A. The media-driven sub-culture and its effects on youth are examined, as is the apparent contradiction of wanting to be an individual, while not seeming to be different. The guide examines the need for balance in the light of the isolation which can be experienced by the individual who refuses to compromise their individuality in order to function within the culture.
The phenomenon of under-achievement and its causes and presentation are discussed. The “boredom” complaint, as opposed to mature responsibility, often complicates under-achievement. Parents have to cope with issues of self-understanding, identity and gender roles among the many other lesser challenges confronted by their adolescent child.
Cost: $16.45
e-guide: Psychosocial Development *
(Last edited 8th Oct, 2011)
34 pages
Psychosocial development is the process that happens to all individuals, not just CHIP, as they interact with society in increasingly complex ways. CHIP are not always well understood. We have tried to look at their development in the same framework of development experienced by all children.
What we have attempted to do is to write in a workable format about the experiences and expected responses that you can look for as your CHIP grows through their early, formative years and into early adulthood. This material is like a sketch in that it is a simplification of incredibly complex interactions with life and society in which all children are involved, not just CHIP.
Cost: $16.45
