Technology can often be used to facilitate twice exceptional children, reducing or eliminating the differences that might otherwise prevent them from participating
in gifted education programs.
Additionally, with no federal money and few states providing an adequate funding stream,
most gifted education programs and services are dependent solely on local funds and parent demand.
This work is informed by a series of collaborative projects I arranged between students in my
secondary gifted education program and the students in our special education classes.
The program supports applied research to develop effective strategies to better identify and serve high - potential students from populations traditionally underrepresented
in gifted education programs.
Gifted children should be tested initially with one of the more recent tests (Stanford - Binet: Fourth Edition, WISC - III, or K - ABC) solely to meet whatever requirements exist at their schools for entrance
into gifted education programs.
Guest blog by Frank C. Worrell, Paula Olszewski - Kubilius and Rena F. Subotnik For more than a quarter century, critics have
faulted gifted education programs for catering to kids from advantaged backgrounds.
In wealthier enclaves,
where gifted education programs often flourish, it can be simply a matter of testing to cream the best from a pool of youngsters who have had high - quality early enrichment and academics.
«One of the benefits of waiting so long, we don't have to reinvent the wheel,» said Chris Martin, a Washington Charter School Commission member and executive director of Prodigy Northwest, which
supports gifted education programs.
Coleman et al. (1993) in their report of five schools which had successfully
blended gifted education programs into middle schools identified factors critical to program effectiveness:
The results exceeded all expectations and led to receiving a $ 2.5 million research grant (2004 - 2009) from the Jacob
Javits Gifted Education Program at the US Department of Education to study and to scale - up the project across other schools districts.
Studies with such diverse groups as National Merit Scholars (Watley, 1969), Presidential Scholars (Kaufmann, 1981), and graduates
of gifted education programs (Kerr, 1985) have shown that the path from education to career is not always smooth, and it may be complicated by social - emotional problems and needs of gifted students that differ from those of more typical students.
There is an alarming trend in many places to
eliminate gifted education programs in the mistaken belief that all students are best served in heterogeneous learning environments.
The gifted youngster's ability to define and solve problems in many ways (often described as fluency of innovative ideas or divergent thinking ability) may not be compatible with
traditional gifted education programs or specific classroom requirements, in part because many gifted students are identified through achievement test scores (Torrance, 1977).
A Brooklyn native and current resident, Tommasino is chairman and co-founder of an arts initiative which, under the aegis of New York City -
based gifted education program Prep for Prep, creates opportunities for young people from historically disadvantaged backgrounds.
NAGC Pre-K — Grade 12
Gifted Education Programming Standards: A Guide to Planning and Implementing High - Quality Services details six standards that address the areas critical to effective teaching and learning, along with suggestions for implementing each one.
Some U.S. school districts employ admissions procedures
for gifted education programs that rely on teacher observations and referrals or require a family to sign their child up for an IQ test.
Gifted education programs have long been subject to criticism that their selection criteria, which often rely on IQ testing and other measures of cognitive ability, are biased against students of color and poor children.
What I'm referring to is underrepresentation of students in U.S. public schools»
gifted education programs.
For instance, studies show preservice teachers often believe that
gifted education programs are «elitist» in nature (Jung, 2014) and hold negative views of best practices such as acceleration and ability grouping (Troxclair, 2013).
A district, by having the majority of their plans approved year - in and year - out, is free to misinterpret an abundance of uninformed passive consent as a sign that
their gifted education program effectively meets the needs of the students it is designed to serve.
Every single day in this program means discovering myself, exploring new aspects of gifted education, building awareness, and creating a magnificent future, not only for me, but also for my country's
gifted education programs.
I may soon take a new position in supervision to pilot
a gifted education program.
Current trends in school reform have led to the disbanding of honors classes,
gifted education programs, and ability grouping, sometimes in the name of equity.
Gifted education programs have traditionally identified and served a limited number of students, often based on specific percentages or «cutoff» scores on tests of ability or achievement.
I love this article and pray that the school systems do not lose
their gifted education programs.
Gifted education programs are required by Virginia law, as specified in Virginia Administrative Code, 8VAC20 -40-10 through 8VAC20 -40-70.
Elena Ackerson, Gifted Intervention Specialist, Snowhill Elementary School Mrs. Ackerson should be nominated for this because she really puts her heart into
the Gifted education program!
It is tempting to use a quiet, brilliant child who has already mastered most of the academic work of the classroom as a tutor or teacher's assistant, especially when there are 30 children in the class, school policies discourage acceleration or ability grouping, enrichment materials are not available, and
the gifted education program has been cut.
The gifted education programming standards are focused on student outcomes that address both cognitive and affective areas.
The NAGC Pre-K — Grade 12
Gifted Education Programming Standards should be part of every school district's repertoire of standards to ensure that the learning needs of advanced students are being met.
Gifted education programs are meant to help all high - ability students.
While there is a clear need to increase the participation of minority students in
gifted education programs, there is an equally important need to focus on issues of achievement and underachievement.
Dr. Miller provides consultant services to school districts in the San Diego and Imperial Valley areas that are improving or redesigning
their gifted education programs.
If not... then it's not
a gifted education program, it's a pacifier for the parents of gifted children, to say that «we've got a gifted program» without providing gifted education to the child.
Education systems use IQ tests to help identify children for special education and
gifted education programs and to offer extra support.
Minority students from Black, Hispanic, and American Indian backgrounds are less likely to have been selected for
gifted education programs and less likely to perform well on standardized achievement tests than their nonminority peers.
And sessions each year in the University of Pennsylvania Leadership Certificate for
Gifted Education Program.
The Minnesota Legislature responded by designating $ 30 per identified student, not to exceed 2.5 % of the total student population in a district, to be used for
gifted education programs.
(213 — 214) My student, Scott, a high school junior in
our gifted education program, spends two afternoons a week as Mr. Scott, a teacher's assistant in a classroom for students with severe behavioral needs.