DoDEA:PopeRm17 Gifted Education

“Giftedness appears in many different forms in every cultural group at every level of society, yet it remains a potentiality until it has been discovered and developed. In coming to grips with more effective approaches to identify giftedness, the promise is that educators will better understand how to identify and nurture the potential of all learners.” (Passow and Frasier, 1996)

Definition of Gifted Learners:

Gifted learners are children and youth with outstanding talent who perform or show the potential for performing at remarkably high levels of accomplishment when compared with others of their age, experience, or environment. (U.S. Department of Education,1993)

Identification Procedures:

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

Goals:

• Locate and recognize students in grades K-12 with extremely strong learning profiles in the areas of:

1. Intellectual ability

2. Academic achievement (general or specific)

• Use multiple criteria for eligibility and specific procedures that acknowledge the variety of ways and environments in which students manifest

giftedness.

Gifted Education Service Options

Figure 1 – DoDEA Gifted Education Services at the Elementary School Level

*Regular classroom with differentiation	Regular classroom with cluster grouping and differentiation
Regular classroom with grade acceleration of content	*Resource sessions outside the classroom
Grade acceleration for specific content	Grade acceleration
Individualized services	Additional opportunities