Standard 2: COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAMMING within a Total School Community
Link to our local AIG plan- 2019-2022 (see page 16 ff.)
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Standard Two: Comprehensive Programming within a Total School Community
The LEA provides an array of K-12 programs and services by the total school community to meet the diverse academic, intellectual, social, and emotional needs of gifted students.
Standard 2 CHANGES IN THE 2019-2022 NHCS AIG Plan:
Practice A
Minor changes in this practice in K-3 nurturing and addressing social and emotional needs of gifted learners
Practice C
Specific language added to address the grouping of gifted students
Practice F
While many schools have been effectively utilizing their MTSS team and other support staff when needed with gifted students, it is addressed in this practice.
Practice H
Changes in this practice address efforts to increase equity in gifted services
Families of the Talented and Gifted http://www.tagfam.org
Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted
http://www.sengifted.org/: This website includes resources for supporting the social/emotional needs of the gifted. The archived newsletters contain great articles to share with parents and teachers.
www.hoagiesgifted.org This website includes resources for "all things gifted".
The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children by Neihart, Reis, Robinson, Moon
This book spans all aspects of gifted children’s struggles and includes strategies for helping students and families cope and interventions to try.
A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children by Webb, Gore, Amend, DeVries, and two more. Amazon $14.40
The four authors, who have decades of professional experience with gifted children and their families, provide practical guidance in areas such as: Characteristics of gifted children; Peer relations; Sibling issues; Motivation & underachievement; Discipline issues; Intensity & stress; Depression & unhappiness; Educational planning; Parenting concerns; Finding professional help; and much, much more!
http://www.slideshare.net/aarmau/27-strategies-by-sue-jackson-of-damien-institute
This video discusses some ideas about gifted individuals. It is from the Damien Institute.
Extra-Curricular Activities:
Battle of the Books
Chess Club
Robotics
Science Olympiad
Science Fair
Math Olympiad
NHCS Subject Acceleration Procedures: NHCS Subject Acceleration Checklist.doc
Transiting to Middle School
Elementary AIG identification transfers with students to middle school. The elementary Gifted Education Specialist completes a middle school transition form on each identified AIG student. The form is hand delivered to the middle school gifted specialist along with work samples and other data.
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