PT ENGLAND SCHOOL POLICY
GIFTED AND TALENTED
INTRODUCTION:
In our school we have a number of children who have considerable ability in academic and other areas. Because of the preponderance of children with a high level of need in each classroom it is often difficult for class teachers to extend these children in all the ways we might like. They tend to be slowed down by the ‘lowest common denominator’ and to experience less teacher time than some of the very needy children. We see it as much a duty in the school to extend these children and cater for their needs, as we do the children who struggle to understand and complete their work.
OBJECTIVES:
1. To provide an environment conducive to the extension of children with special abilities.
2. To ensure that students are in a group of the size that enables their needs to met, interaction with their teacher to be frequent, and enables them to be mobile and visit places/people of interest and to complete activities which are difficult to carry out in a larger group.
3. To concentrate more on the processes of education using a resourced based/research based approach in order to improve problem solving ability and higher thinking skills.
4. To provide feedback to parents, class teachers and other students as to the activities carried out and the essential learnings which have taken place during the life of the group.
GUIDELINES:
1. The programme will be set up and devised by the Extension Teacher in consultation with the Management Team
2. Children will be selected on the basis of their ESA, asTTle, PAT and STAR results and will be near the top 15 %ile.
3. Once children are selected for the group a timetable will be established and this will be referred back to classroom teachers.
4. The selected children will be withdrawn from class at the times agreed and will work with the extension teacher in the Creative Space
5. There will be on-going consultation between the specialist teacher, the Digital Learning Team Leader and the AP 2 to ensure that the programme is effectively meeting the needs of the students.
6. Each year this programme will be re-evaluated to determine whether in its current format, it continues to meet the needs of the children involved or whether it needs to be altered.
7. In the event of questions, concerns, or even complaints arising from this programme, the principal will be notified. The principal will relay the content of any such approach to AP 2 and the Digital Learning Team Leader who will then meet with the Specialist Teacher to find the best way in which to handle the approach. From time to time the staff meeting or team meetings may be used as avenues for discussing, altering or evaluating this programme.
8. The specialist teacher will provide feedback in the form of reporting and work presentation as well as test results and statistical information to the rest of the school, the management Team, the BOT and parents where appropriate.
Formulated: 1995
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