Gifted and Talented

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Gifted and Talented

• Duoc Le
• Dennis Chavez

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Gifted and Talented

• Federal Definition
• State Definition

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Gifted and Talented

• Federal Definition
• Gifted and talented children are those who by
  virtue of their outstanding abilities are capable
  of high performance. These are children whose
  potentialities require differentiated education
  programs and/or services beyond those normally
  performance include those with demonstrated
  achievement or potential ability in any of the
  following areas, individually or in combination
  general intellectual ability, specific academic
  aptitude, creative or productive thinking,
  leadership ability, visual and performing arts.
• http//www.delano.k12.mn.us/sitepages/pid476.php

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State Gifted and Talented

• Gifted and talented education in US state affair
• No federal legislation mandating special services
  for gifted and talented students
• States have their own definition and their own
  programs
• State definitions identify gifted students and
  programs

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State Gifted and Talented

• Who define gifted and talented within each
  state?
• State legislature (25 states)
• State agency (21 states)
• No state definition (4 states)

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State Gifted and Talented

• Different in terminology
• Gifted and Talented (25 states)
• Gifted (18 states)
• High ability student (3 states)
• No state definition (4 states)

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State Gifted and Talented

• Different terminology (gifted and talented,
  gifted, or high ability students), but one
  program is not better than the other
• Legislative involvement (rather than state
  agency) importance of gifted and talented
  education in state

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Gifted and Talented - Texas

• Gifted and talented student means a child
  or youth who performs at or shows the potential
  for performing at a remarkably high level of
  accomplishment when compared to others of the
  same age, experience, or environment and who
• Exhibits high performance capability in an
  intellectual, creative, or artistic area
• Possesses an unusual capacity for leadership or
• Excels in a specific academic field.
• TEX. EDUC. CODE ANN. 29.121

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Gifted New Mexico

• 1) Gifted child means a school-age person as
  defined in Sec. 22-1-2U NMSA 1978 whose
  intellectual ability paired with subject matter
  aptitude/achievement, creativity/divergent
  thinking, or problem-solving/critical thinking is
  so outstanding that a properly constituted IEP
  team decides special education services are
  required to meet the childs educational needs.

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Gifted New Mexico

• 2) Intellectual ability means performance in
  the very superior range as defined by the test
  author on a properly administered intelligence
  measure.

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Gifted New Mexico

• 3) Subject matter aptitude/achievement means
  superior academic performance on a total subject
  area score on a standardized measure, or as
  documented by information from other sources

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Gifted New Mexico

• 4) Creativity/divergent thinking means
  outstanding performance on a test of
  creativity/divergent thinking, or in
  creativity/divergent thinking as documented by
  information from other sources

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Gifted New Mexico

• 5) Problem-solving/critical thinking means
  outstanding performance on a test of
  problem-solving/critical thinking, or in
  problem-solving/critical thinking as documented
  by information from other sources
• N.M. ADMIN. CODE tit. 6, 31.2.12

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High ability student - Washington

• As used in this chapter, the term highly capable
  student shall mean a student who has been
  assessed to have superior intellectual ability as
  demonstrated by one or more of the multiple
  criteria in WAC 392-170-040.

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High ability student - Washington

• These students exhibit high capability in
  intellectual and/or creative areas, possess an
  unusual leadership capacity, or excel in specific
  academic fields, thereby requiring services
  beyond the basic programs provided by schools.
  Outstanding abilities are present in students
  from all cultural groups, across all economic
  strata, and in all areas of human endeavor.
• WASH. ADMIN. CODE 392-170-035

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Prevelance

• Gifted students make up about 3-5 of the school
  aged population. (Heward)

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Characterisctics

• Examples include rapidly use and retain large
  amounts of information, relate one idea to
  another, make sound judgments, solve problems by
  reframing the question and creating novel
  solutions (Heward)

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Down Side

• Student may dominate discussions, be impatient
  from one activity to the next, may want to read
  instead of be physically active or social, lead
  discussions off the topic, become bored by
  repetitions, and could quickly lose interest.

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References

• http//www.bced.gov.bc.ca/specialed/gifted/whoare.
  htm
• http//www.sde.ct.gov/sde/cwp/view.asp?a2618q32
  0938
• http//www.nagc.org/index.aspx?id607
• http//www.state.gov/m/dghr/flo/c21951.htm
• http//www.delano.k12.mn.us/sitepages/pid476.php

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References

• http//otec.uoregon.edu/special_and_gifted.htm
• http//www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/52/28/5228.htm
• http//www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/secondary/keystag
  e3/all/respub/agt
• http//nswagtc.org.au/info/definitions/
• http//www.napcse.org/exceptionalchildren/giftedan
  dtalented.php

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References

• Exceptional Children. Heward, William L. Sixth
  Edition. 2000.