In FCBOE, teachers help identify gifted students using a four criteria system. Each year, teachers are required to be re-trained in the process. Here's a deck I created one year as a part of the committee.

1. Unless we have
excellent education
for both our
plumbers
and
philosophers,

2. neither our pipes
nor our ideas will
hold water.
—John Gardner

3. 45% of new U.S.
patents are granted now
(Education Week “A Quiet Crisis is Clouding the
Future of R&D” May 25, 2005)

4. to foreigners.
(Education Week “A Quiet Crisis is Clouding
the Future of R&D” May 25, 2005)

5. 88% of high school
dropouts had passing
grades,
(Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: “The Silent
Epidemic” March 2006)

6. but dropped out due
to boredom.
(Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: “The Silent
Epidemic” March 2006)

8. Gifted students
need coaches and mentors.
Often begin the year with 50%
of the material mastered.
Dangers are boredom,
frustration, despondency, low-
achievement, poor work-habits

9. Role Models

10. Just as gifted athletes need a
different type of training, so
gifted academics need a

11. Mentors
Intellectual Peers

13. Gifted students sometimes
have learning disabilities.
Be careful not to overlook the
“twice exceptional.”

15. Genius without
education is like
silver in the mine.
—William Butler Yeats