Wk 2 - Gifted and Talented Program Presentation

1. Gifted and Talented Program
Talauntra Bullock

2. Characteristics of Gifted and Talented Learners
Intellectual Creative
Curious Wonders
Complex, abstract ideas Daydreams/Off-task
Makes connections Lots of ideas
Intense Improvises
Guesses well Intuitive
Sees multiple viewpoints Questions mastery
Very original Bizarre ideas/plays with concepts

3. Testing of Gifted and Talented Learners
Gifted Assessments may include the following:
• Intellectual testing: Results are given as IQ scores, Standard Scores
(SS) and percentiles.
• Achievement Testing: Results show the level of academic
performance compared to a standard peer group.
• Supplementary Psychological Testing: Results show how the child
functions socially and emotionally in daily life.
• Supplementary Psycho-Educational Testing:

4. Testing of Gifted and Talented Learners
Formative and Summative Assessments are great ways to monitor gifted and talented students’ learning.
Below are tips on how these assessment can result in important increases in student learning when
teachers:
• Clearly communicate and involve the gifted students in the purpose of each lesson.
• Use lessons and other classroom experiences to monitor and collect evidence on gifted students’
learning.
• Use this evidence to help understand what gifted students know and adjust plans, enriching and
accelerating learning as appropriate.
• Align the assessments with appropriate learning goals for gifted students.
• Use authentic, above grade level, and differentiated assessments to identify what gifted and advanced
students know and don’t know.
• Develop long- and short-range goals based on multiple types of assessments that consider each gifted
student’s abilities, achievement levels, needs and interests.
• Engage gifted students in determining whether they have met these goals.
• Use formative assessment continually to adjust curriculum and pace instruction based on the learning
capabilities of gifted and advanced students.

5. Services and Supports for Gifted and
Talented Learners
Strategies for Supporting Gifted
Students
Ways to Support Gifted Students
in Your Classroom
Services for Gifted and Talented
Learners
o Curriculum Compacting
o Flexible Grouping
o Product Choices
o Tiered Assignments
o Multilevel Learning Stations
o Learn how gifted students think.
o Created tiered assignments for
students.
o Include a variety of levels in
your classroom library.
o Utilize their talents and interests.
o Explore real-word application.
o Extra curricular activities such as
sports, chess, music, creative
writing, reading, foreign
language, or art
o Enrichment programs and
academic contests that can be
used to support gifted education
enrichment:
• Destination Imagination
• Odyssey of the Mind
• Future Problem Solving
• Brain Bowl
• National History Day
• Science Olympiad

6. Accommodations Used for Gifted and Talented
Learners to Deepen Knowledge and Skills
• Tiered Assignments
• Open-Ended Assignments
• Enrichment (Independent Study, Independent Research,
Sophistication of Projects)
• Acceleration (Telescoping, Compacting, Ability or
Need Grouping)

7. References
• Five Ways to Support Gifted Students in Your
Classroom(2021). https://www.kaplanco.com/ii/gifted-students
• Gifted Assessments(2004-2011). https://www.psy-ed.com/wpblog/gifted-assessments/
• Gifted Education Program
Requirements(2019). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WkIoMFwBk8
• Loveless, B. (2021). Forms of Gifted Education. https://www.educationcorner.com/forms-of-
gifted-education.html
• Varlas, L. (2011). Five Strategies for Supporting Gifted
Students. https://inservice.ascd.org/strategies-for-supporting-gifted-students/
• What is Assessment?(2018). https://www.apa.org/ed/schools/teaching-learning/top-
twenty/creative-talented/assessment?tab=1