1. Counseling in Schools
Module Eleven: Exceptional Children-Gifted Education
East Carolina University
Prof Intro...
This week we will be exploring another topic that has in the past fallen under the umbrella of
exceptional children, Gifted Education. There currently exists a movement advocating for
establishing Gifted Education separately from Special Education. You may have previous
exposure to the area of gifted education or you may not—either way is okay! This week we will
begin our work with a brief introduction to gifted education through a Podcast by PBS.org. After
this introduction, we will move into an exploration of twice-exceptional students. Twice
exceptional students are students who are gifted in one area and face a disability in another
area. Twice exceptional students are often a new concept for counseling students, so much of our
time this week will be spent exploring the issues impacting these students. Our discussion board
debate this week will focus on the real and the ideal of the role of the school counselor in regards
to working with gifted students and gifted education programs.
Goals:
• To raise awareness of the issues facing gifted students and families.
• To learn about the characteristics of twice exceptional students.
• To learn about the services needed to meet the needs of twice-exceptional students.
• To reflect on your personal perceptions regarding gifted education and the role of school
counselor in gifted education.
• To discover and share one resource to help school counselors meet the needs of gifted
students.
Apprx Activity Notes
Time
1.5 hrs Reviewing These are the required listening/readings for the week:
documents,
websites and Gifted Education Podcast:
listening to http://learningmatters.tv/blog/podcasts/podcast-gifted-
podcast education/1058/
Gifted Children with ADHD.pdf
The Twice Exceptional Guide
http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/Templates/Pages/ODE/ODED
etail.aspx?page=3&TopicRelationID=1540&ContentID=
38079&Content=86674
Twice Exceptional Students: An Introductory Resource
http://www.cde.state.co.us/gt/download/pdf/TwiceExceptiona
lResourceHandbook.pdf
The Twice Exceptional Newsletter
http://www.2enewsletter.com/Understanding%20and%20Edu
cating%20the%202e%20Child.htm
You may not have time to read each of these closely, but
please make sure that you read judiciously and that you
bookmark or print these resources to assist you in your

2. professional work later on.
1.5 hrs Discussion Gifted Education Programming and the School Counselor's Role
spread Board This week we are debating the "Real" vs the "Ideal" when it comes to
over Reflection the school counselor's role in gifted education programming. Group
course A will support the REAL side of the debate and Group B will
of week support the IDEAL side. Please consider the needs of gifted and
twice-exceptional students as we debate.
30 mins Final Project At this point you should be gathering data for assessing the impact of your
Prep project. This is an important step and your 'impact/outcomes' data needs to
be related to your initial baseline data to demonstrate how your initiative
impacted students.
Please also make sure that you post your third journal this week on your
journal group's page. Please have your journal posted by Wednesday and
please also make sure that you read and comment on your group members'
journals. I'm looking forward to reading these. Please follow Prompt 3 listed
below and under the Assignments tab.
Prompt 3: Improving my project: At this time, I think
No practice quiz this week.