Transcript Nature & Needs Gifted Students

Nature & Needs
Gifted Students
Enterprise City Schools
ABC Students
Objectives
Briefly explain Gifted Referral Procedures
Guidelines for pullout policies (State & Local)
Nature, needs, and characteristics of gifted students
Referrals
2nd Grade Child Find
Other Grade Level Procedures (1st - 6th)
Efforts must be made to identify students among ALL
populations including:
Socioeconomic
Disabled
Limited English Proficient
2nd Grade Child Find
Collaborate to identify students to submit for testing
First few months of school working with 2nd graders.
Creative thinking activities
Collect work samples
Get to know the children
By January, submit names of children for testing
Then the process is similar to standard referrals for other grades
Standard Referral - All Grades
Referrals - students six years of age and older.
Students may be referred for consideration for gifted
services by:
Teachers
Counselors
Administrators
Parents or Guardians
Peers or Self
Other individuals with knowledge of the students’ abilities.
GRST
Gifted Referrals Screening Team (GRST) - Three
Individuals
Teacher
Gifted Education Teacher
Counselor
Next Part of Process
Fill out a recommendation. (Found on Teacher Web Page)
Email the recommendation or put it in my mailbox.
Next, I submit the form to special projects.
Upon approval the parents receive notification letter.
Parents sign the form to signify approval or disapproval.
Testing
Paperwork signed by GRST to proceed with testing.
Students receive testing.
Work samples gathered.
Use caution to keep the process confidential.
Once student completes testing and I receive the
results...
Notification and Placement
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Qualified:
Parents Notified
Approval signed by
parents
Gifted Education Plan
Not Qualified:
Parents Notified
Placement and Delivery
Variety of service delivery options:
Resource room pullout (this is what we do)
Consultative (for children not in 3rd - 6th)
Pull Out Policies
Children with a Gifted Education Plan receive
services one day per week in a “Pull Out” Program.
Five Hours per week.
State Superintendent
“Shift in concentration from adequate yearly progress
to college and career readiness.”
More flexibility to prepare every child to make
progress and to be prepared to enter any college &
profession they choose.
Environment where school systems make educational
choices based on what is best for their students.
Example: Project based learning
General Education Classroom
Gifted Children must be challenged
May need advanced studies
May complete independent studies
System Wide Faculty
Handbook
Section titled: “Guidelines for Gifted
Students”
“Gifted students will not be required to
make up work missed due to attending
gifted classes. This includes class work
and homework.”
Also stated in the Alabama State Gifted
Code
New Instruction & Tests
If you introduce new material, student must
receive instruction by the teacher or a
designated peer in a small group or one-on-one
setting.
If you administer a test, the gifted student will
take the test when he or she returns to the
classroom or at a mutually agreed upon time.
What Is The Difference?
Bright Child:
Gifted Learner:
Creative Learner:
Enjoys school
Enjoys self-directed learning
Enjoys creating
Knows the answers
Asks questions
Sees exceptions
Is interested
Highly curious
Wonders
Is attentive
Mentally Involved
Daydreams, may seem off task
Advanced Ideas
Complex, abstract ideas
Overflows with ideas
Works hard
Knows without working hard
Plays with ideas and concepts
Answers questions
Discusses in detail, elaborates
Injects new possibilities
Top of the group
Above & beyond the group
Is in own group
What Is The Difference?
Bright Child:
Gifted Learner:
Creative Learner:
Listens with interest
Shows strong opinions
Shares conflicting opinions
Learns with ease
Already knows material
Questions: What if...
6-8 reps for mastery
1-3 reps for mastery
Questions need for mastery
Enjoys peers
Prefers adults
Prefers creative peers/alone
Understands complex,
abstract humor
Creates complex abstract
humor
Relishes wild, off-the wall
humor
Completes assignments
Initiates projects
Initiates more projects than
will ever be completed
What Is The Difference?
Bright Child:
Gifted Learner:
Creative Learner:
Is receptive
Is intense
Independent & unconventional
Accurate and complete
Original & continually
developing
Original & continually
developing
Manipulates information
Improvises
Expert
Inventor
Good guesser/Intuitive/Infers
Creates & brainstorms
Keenly observant/Intellectual
Intuitive/Idiosyncratic
Highly self critical
Never finished with own
possibilities
absorbs information
Technician
Good memorizer
Alert/Able
Pleased with learning
Receives an A on most
subjects
May not be motivated by
grades
May not be motivated by grades
Response to an Assignment
Response to a Question
Federal Definition
The term “gifted and talented”, when used with
respect to students, children or youth, means
students children, or youth who give evidence of high
achievement capability in areas such as intellectual,
creative, artistic, or leadership capacity, or in specific
academic fields, and who need services or activities
not ordinarily provided by the school in order to fully
develop those capabilities. -Section 9101(22) (Page
544)
Characteristics of Gifted in
Handbook
Definition: Intellectually gifted children and youth are
those who perform or who have demonstrated the
potential to perform at high levels in academic or creative
fields when compared with others of their age,
experience, or environment. These children and youth
require services not ordinarily provided by the regular
school program. Children and youth possessing these
abilities can be found in all populations, across all
economic strata, and in all areas of human endeavor.
(Alabama Gifted Code)
References
State of Alabama Gifted Code (290-8-9.12 Gifted)
Kingor, Bertie. High Achiever, Gifted Learner, Creative
Thinker
Farrell, Shirley. Traits Aptitudes and Behaviors. ALSDE
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