Gifted Program

What is Gifted Education?

Gifted Education programs are provided to students that are identified as performing at remarkably high levels of accomplishment when compared to others of their age, experience, or environment. Students identifying as gifted are provided with a Written Education Plan (WEP) that outlines how their instruction will be differentiated from their peers. This ensures that students are not just given 'more work,' but that the work is modified to enrich their learning beyond what they would typically receive in the general education classroom. Gifted Identification may be recognized in the following areas: super cognitive ability, specific academic ability in mathematics, reading/writing, science, and/or social studies, creative thinking ability, and/or visual or performing arts ability: dance, drama, music, and visual arts. Students that are being presented for gifted identification will be assessed using state-approved intelligence tests, nationally-normed achievement tests, an approved checklist of creative behaviors, a qualifying score on an approved creativity test, a display of work, an audition, or other performance or exhibition and also obtains a qualifying score on an approved checklist of behaviors related to a specific arts area. Students may be referred for gifted identification through teacher or parent/guardian referral, or through whole-grade screenings once during the K-2 grade band, and again during the 3-6 grade band. If you suspect that your child may be gifted please contact their classroom teacher, or use the 'contact us' page to email the school psychologist.