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Gifted Designation

by curious

Oct 6, 2009

How is "gifted" designation determined at your school, especially at the primary level. Is a test used and is there a program in place? Can a class arbitrarily be labeled "gifted"?

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Our district On 10/06/09, curious wrote: > How is "gifted" designation determined at your school, > especially at the primary level. Is a test used and is > there a program in place? Can a class arbitrarily be > labeled "gifted"?

We have set criteria in place for determining giftedness. In our state, gifted is defined as having an IQ of 120...See More

Oct 6, 2009

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Jahna We are in a very high-achieving district. Officially there is no one standard for gifted ness, but unofficially a child pretty well needs both reading and math achievement scores at the 97th percentile to even be considered.

Oct 6, 2009

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GT Teacher On 10/06/09, curious wrote: > How is "gifted" designation determined at your school, > especially at the primary level. Is a test used and is > there a program in place? Can a class arbitrarily be > labeled "gifted"?

It's determined by testing - usually here the Stanford Binet. There is a pullout program in place.

Anyt...See More

Oct 9, 2009

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mary anne On 10/06/09, Our district wrote: > On 10/06/09, curious wrote: >> How is "gifted" designation determined at your school, >> especially at the primary level. Is a test used and is >> there a program in place? Can a class arbitrarily be >> labeled "gifted"? > > We have set criteria in place for determining giftedness....See More

Dec 17, 2009

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