& NAGC Standards

The National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) is the primary organization which supports gifted children in the United States. They develop policies to support gifted children across the United States. Parents, teachers, administrators, researchers and public officials can rely on the NAGC to advocate for these children and support their growth in the field of gifted and talented education.

The National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) have created different standards that teachers, schools and higher education institutions can use to rate gifted programming and services, teacher skills and teacher training. The University of Denver used these standards when reviewing the strengths and weaknesses of our GT magnet school a few years ago. The standards located in the link immediately above this text are focused on supporting schools. Schools teaching students from kindergarten through twelfth grade can use them to assess what they have implemented in their classrooms and what they can do to improve their gifted and talented programming. The GT teachers in Denver Public Schools use the 4th standard of learning environments to create affective goals for a student's Advanced Learning Plan (ALP). These goals serve as a guide for creating activities which support the social-emotional development of GT students.