Adair County Gifted and Talented Board Policy
The Adair County Gifted Program strives to provide high potential learners with challenging opportunities that will encourage them to value their own unique strengths and the exceptional abilities of others. These students are ones who have demonstrated potential ability in one of the following areas: general intellectual ability, specific academic aptitude, creative or divergent thinking, psychosocial or leadership skills, and visual and performing arts.
SELECTION
General Intelligence and/or Specific Academic:
Students with either the potential or demonstrated ability to perform at an exceptionally high level in general intellectual ability, which is usually reflected in extraordinary performance in a variety of cognitive areas, such as abstract reasoning, logical reasoning, social awareness, memory, nonverbal ability, and the analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of information and a consistently outstanding mental capacity as compared to children of one's age, experience or environment. Students possessing either potential or demonstrated ability to perform at an exceptionally high level in one or more specific academic areas significantly beyond the age, experience, or environment of one's chronological peers in a specific academic area (At least three assessment options are required for identification and diagnosis.)
Naglieri
CTBS
Teacher questionnaire or check list of gifted/talented characteristics
Parent questionnaire or check list of gifted/talented characteristics to determine student interests, needs, and abilities
Individual intelligence test (Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test, WISC, Woodcock-Johnson, Stanford Binet, etc.) scoring in the 96th percentile or higher
Creativity
Students possessing either potential or demonstrated ability to perform at an exceptionally high level in creative thinking and divergent approaches to conventional tasks as evidenced by innovative or creative reasoning, advanced insight and imagination, and solving problems in unique ways. (At least three assessment measures are required for identification and diagnosis.)
Torrance Creativity Test
Student Self-Assessment for Creativity
Williams CAP Assessment
Teacher questionnaire or checklist for creativity
Student questionnaire or checklist for creativity
Creative writing samples and or evidence of a product containing original idea or problem solving
Screening Measure #1- Circles Activity
Leadership
Students possessing either potential or demonstrated ability to perform at an exceptionally high level in social skills and interpersonal qualities such as poise, effective oral and written expression, managerial ability and the ability, or vision, to set goals and organize others to reach those goals. (At least three assessment measures are required for identification and diagnosis.)
Teacher questionnaire or checklist for leadership
Peer recommendation or checklist for leadership
Student self-assessment or Sociogram
Portfolio with documentation of evidence of leadership qualities
Visual and Performing Arts
Students possessing either potential or demonstrated ability to perform at an exceptionally high level in the visual or performing arts and demonstrating the potential for outstanding aesthetic production, accomplishment, or creativity in visual art, dance, music, or drama. (At least three assessment measures are required for identification and diagnosis.)
Teacher questionnaire or checklist for visual or performing arts
Parent questionnaire or checklist for visual or performing arts
Student assessment in art, music, dance or drama
Performance or portfolio for a jury of artists, performers, or educators
Letter of recommendation from a specialist or professional artist
Primary Talent Pool
In the primary grades, students will be identified as having "characteristics and behaviors of high potential learners." High potential learners” typically represent the top quartile (25%) of the entire student population in terms of the degree of demonstrated gifted characteristics and behaviors. A minimum of three assessment options is required to assess the degree of demonstrated gifted characteristics and behaviors and to determine the level of need and most appropriate service options.
Brigance
MAP (Reading and Math)
Primary Talent Pool Screening Measure #1 –Circles Activity
Primary Talent Pool Screening Measure #2 –Draw a Whole Child Activity
Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test - score of 96th percentile
Teacher checklist of gifted behaviors
Parent questionnaire to determine interests, needs, and abilities
Questionnaire or checklist from special teachers
SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS
Students who may be disadvantaged due to one or more of the following; environmental, language, cultural, economic, medical, and/or any other factors as described in recommendation may be considered for the gifted education program. These cases will be reviewed by the GT Committee and decided upon a case to case basis.
DISTRICT WIDE SCREENING
The following tests are either administered by their classroom teachers, counselors or other school personnel. Test scores are made available to the GT Coordinator via the districts instructional supervisor.
MAP
Brigance
Naglieri- GT Coordinator/GT Teacher Administers
K-PREP( only to screen for Science and Social Studies)
Draw a Whole Child
Circles Activity
TRANSFER STUDENTS
Adair County will adhere to a reciprocal agreement to accept already identified students from another Kentucky School District. However, services may need to be updated in Infinite Campus due to the services that are offered in Adair County. Students who transfer in from another state must be reviewed according to the state regulations and district identification procedures. Documentation may be used as supporting evidence, however, the student is not automatically considered for the Gifted Program.
EXIT PROCEDURES
In accordance with local policies and procedures, once a student enters the Gifted Program, he/she remains in the program. A student may with parent permission may opt out of Gifted service, however, they will remain identified as gifted. If a parent declines services written documentation with the parents signature must be included in the student’s GT folder. “Declined Services” will be entered into Infinite Campus.
EVIDENCE
Students scoring at the 96th percentile and above for General Intelligence and Specific Academic will be eligible for gifted services. The 96th percentile reports will be filed in the GT coordinator’s office.
All GT information will be kept current in Infinite Campus. GSSPs will also be pulled from the Individual Learning Plan (ILP) and used for parent conferencing. Parents will receive progress reports once each semester. The GSSP and Progress reports will be filed in the student’s gifted folder.
An assistant to the GT coordinator will file GSSPs, input data into Infinite Campus, and assist with other paperwork as needed. Each Gifted student will have a gifted and talented folder that will follow the student through his/her academic career. Folders will be maintained in the GT coordinator’s office.
TIMELINE
See GT Timeline attachment.
SERVICES
Multiple service delivery options will be provided with no single option existing alone. Services provided include, but are not limited to, the following:
Various acceleration options (e.g., early exit from primary, grade skipping, content and curriculum in one or more subjects from a higher grade level)
Dual Enrollment
Collaborative teaching and consultation services
Special counseling services
Differentiated study experiences for individuals and cluster groups in the regular classroom
Enrichment services during the school day
Independent study
Advanced placement and honors courses
Mentorships
Resource services delivered in a pull-out classroom or other appropriate instructional setting
Seminars
Field Trips
All service delivery options are documented in Infinite Campus on each student and included in reports to KDE.
EVALUATION
The Gifted Education Coordinator and staff shall be responsible for monitoring all aspects of the gifted education program. The GT staff will be responsible for preparing all documentation to be reviewed by the GT Committee. Upon their approval it will be passed onto the Superintendent for review prior to being sent to KDE for year end evaluation.
ACCELERATION
In accordance with the belief that all students are entitled to a quality education appropriate to their particular needs, students (who advance beyond grade level through the state and local curriculum) shall be given the opportunity to accelerate.
All students, including advanced learners, should be challenged and encouraged to attain their full capabilities, which may be accomplished by providing access to curriculum, learning environments, and instructional interventions normally delivered to older peers.
The process that shall be used for evaluation and identifying students for accelerated placement, either by grade or one (1) or more subject areas shall be set out in administrative procedure.
APPEALS
Parents/guardians and/or students may petition for identification or may appeal non-identification or appropriateness of services using the following procedures.
1. The appealing party shall request a conference with the school personnel responsible for identification and/or delivery of student services. The school personnel responsible will consult with the school Gifted/Talented committee.
2. Further appeal concerning curriculum may be made to the school SBDM council.
3. The appealing party shall submit in writing to the Gifted Services Coordinator, specifically why s/he believes that screening results are not accurate or services are not appropriate and why an exception should be made or reconsideration given.
4. The Coordinator shall compile student data and present that along with the petition or appeal to the Gifted and Talented Advisory committee. The information presented shall include a recommendation accompanied by available substantiating evidence.
5. The Advisory Committee shall make a recommendation and respond in writing to the appealing party within 10 working days of receipt of the appeal and accompanying information.
6. If the Advisory Committee rules in favor of the grievant, the following option shall apply as appropriate.
a. S/He may receive services as soon as the school gifted/talented committee completes the GSSP.
b. A change in the GSSP or provision of services shall be made in a timely manner.
7. If the Advisory Committee rules against the grievant, or if the appeal concerns the non-availability of appropriate service options, a further written appeal may be made to the Superintendent, who must respond in writing within 10 working days of receipt of the appeal. The Superintendent will have the final decision in the case.
Board Approval Signature(s):
Reviewed by
Adair County Board
October 28, 2014,
Approved by KDE 11/20/14