Gifted Scope & Sequence

Gifted students must not only acquire advanced knowledge but also develop the skills to communicate abstract ideas effectively within and beyond the classroom. Gifted students acquire advanced communication skills through the creation of products and opportunities that utilize new techniques, materials, and designs that are then presented and critiqued by real audiences. Presentations, debate, speeches, and multi-media presentations provide students with opportunities to effectively share and communicate ideas.

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Gifted Education Programming and Services Scope and Sequence
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Program Design

  1. What is your district’s definition of a gifted student and gifted education?
  2. Describe the Philosophy and Goals for your gifted program
  3. How do you group and deliver services to your K-8 students?
  4. Describe how you integrate your program standards with the Arizona State Standards at each grade level.
  5. How do you involve parents in your program?

Curriculum and Instruction

  1. How do you differentiate instruction (pace and pedagogy) to K-8 students? Please list several sample activities to illustrate your description
  2. What curricular materials do you use for grades K-5? Be specific
  3. What curricular materials do you use for grades 6-8? Be specific

Identification

  1. Describe how your referral process for identification involves parents and staff.
  2. Describe your process for the identification of K-8 gifted students, including how your process addresses the variety of student environmental backgrounds
  3. Please list all the testing instruments and data points you use for gifted student identification and explain why you chose these instruments.
  4. How do you inform parents and staff of your referral and identification process?
  5. Once eligibility is determined, how do you inform parents of the decision and then handle an appeal of that decision?

Social and Emotional Development

  1. How do you provide for the unique affective needs of your gifted students K-8?
  2. What specific orientation activities do you provide for parents and teachers regarding gifted students affective needs?
  3. How do you monitor, identify and provide assistance to “at risk” gifted students?

Professional Development

  1. How do you regularly provide opportunities for regular classroom teachers and gifted teachers to receive specialized training about working with gifted students?
  2. Please list the titles of the training you conducted last year and those planned for the current year
  3. How have your training events targeted the needs of administrators, counselors, psychologists and support staff?
  4. Describe the feedback received from post training evaluations. What did participants say about the effectiveness?

Parent and Community Involvement

  1. How do you make your program philosophy, goals and recruitment procedures available to all parents?
  2. How do you provide access to your scope and sequence for all parents?
  3. Describe how you incorporate parents into a support or advisory group.
  4. How do you involve parents and the gifted community in the evaluation of your program?
  5. What data sources do you use to assess your programs effectiveness?
  6. Describe how you use test data, both norm referenced and criterion referenced in your evaluation process.
  7. How do you use informal measures like surveys, open forums and teacher interviews to gather data?
  8. What are your key indicators that your program is positively affecting students?
  9. Describe the performance standards you have for all gifted students.
  10. What percentage of your supplemental allocation is used in the following categories: capitol expenditures, direct student services, professional development and district coordination?
  11. Describe the structure of your gifted education staffing including the ratio of teaching staff to the number of identified gifted students.
  12. To what extent does the district support the funding of your gifted program? Please elaborate: be specific as to staff and financial resources