• Middleton S. Elliott Elementary School
  • Home of the Egrets
  • South Carolina/Fort Stewart/DoDDS Cuba School District
 An Egret facing left.
  • Mailing Address
  • Elliott Elementary School
  • 1635 Albacore Street
  • Beaufort, SC 29906
  • Principal: Barbara Hazzard
  • Phone: (843) 846-6982
  • Fax: (843) 846-6720

Gifted Education

Philosophy and Guiding Principles

Giftedness appears in many different forms in every cultural group at every level of society.

Schools must provide varied and challenging learning opportunities matched to the needs and talents of students with high potential.

No single instrument or score should be used to determine eligibility.

Assessment of students should continue over time.

Gifted students require differentiated learning experiences, K-12

Differentiated learning experiences for gifted students are designed to supplement and build upon the DoDEA Curriculum standards

Gifted students have unique patterns of social and emotional development.

 

Steps to Identification

The purpose of identification for gifted services is to find students whose potential and/or performance is so extraordinary that they require differentiation in their instructional program.

Steps in identification process:

Referral—screening, nomination by educators, parents/guardians, or students themselves, or transfer records

Parent permission and rating scale

Assessment by teacher

Data gathering

Eligibility decision by Gifted Review Committee

Determination of gifted program services.

 

Gifted Education Service Options

Schools select program services for identified students from the following:

Regular classroom with additional challenges and supplemental experiences

Regular classroom with additional challenges along with other identified students

Regular classroom with advanced instruction in a specified area/s at another grade level

Resource sessions in the gifted resource room, targeted to a specific academic area and aligned with DoDEA content standards

Other services determined by the Gifted Resource Committee

 

 

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