1. Faculty Meeting GT ID Staff Development
8/23/2018
Gifted & Talented
Nomination and Identification Process
Agenda
Definitions of Giftedness
GT Procedural Chart
Bright Child or Gifted Child Activity
Nomination Packet
Deadline

2. Faculty Meeting GT ID Staff Development
8/23/2018
Agenda
Definitions of Giftedness
GT Procedural Chart
Bright Child or Gifted Child Activity
Nomination Packet
Deadline

3. Faculty Meeting GT ID Staff Development
8/23/2018
From Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language (1989)
gifted- (gif'tid) adj. 1. having great special talents or ability: the debut of a gifted artist. 2. having exceptionally high intelligence: gifted children.

4. Faculty Meeting GT ID Staff Development
8/23/2018
Gifted and talented children are those identified by professionally qualified persons who by virtue of outstanding abilities are capable of high performance. These are children who require differentiated educational programs and/or services beyond those normally provided by the regular school program in order to realize their contribution to self and society.
Children capable of high performance include those with demonstrated achievement and/or potential ability in any of the following areas, singly or in combination:
1. General intellectual ability
2. Specific academic aptitude
3. Creative or productive thinking
4. Leadership ability
5. Visual and performing arts
U.S. Office of Education Definition (Marland Report, 1972) (This is used by many states and school districts)

5. Federal Definition of Children With Outstanding Talent
Faculty Meeting GT ID Staff Development
8/23/2018
Federal Definition of Children With Outstanding Talent
Children and youth with outstanding talent performance or show the potential for performance at remarkably high levels of accomplishment when compared with others of their age, experience, or environment.
These children and youth exhibit high performance capability in intellectual, creative, and/or artistic areas, possess an unusual leadership capacity, or excel in specific academic fields. They require services or activities not ordinarily provided by the schools.
Outstanding talents are present in children and youth from all cultural groups, across all economic strata, and in all areas of human endeavor.
(From: Programs for Improvement of Practice. (1993). National Excellence: A Case for Developing American''s Talent. (p. 26). Washington DC: US Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement. Available online:

6. TEXAS State Definition of Gifted
Faculty Meeting GT ID Staff Development
8/23/2018
TEXAS State Definition of Gifted
Chapter 29. Educational Programs
Subchapter D. Educational Programs for Gifted and Talented Students
¤ Definition
In this subchapter, "gifted and talented students" means a child or youth who performs at or shows the potential for performing at a remarkably high level of accomplishment when compared to others of the same age, experience, or environment and who:
(1) exhibits high performance capability in an intellectual, creative, or artistic area;
(2) possesses an unusual capacity for leadership; or
(3) excels in a specific academic field.

7. Fifteen Student Characteristics of Potential Giftedness
Student’s use of language.
Quality of student’s questions.
Quality of examples, illustrations, or elaborations that a student uses in explaining some thing or in describing events or in telling stories.
Student’s use of quantitative expressions and quantitative reasoning.
Student’s ability to devise or adopt a systematic strategy for solving problems and to change the strategy if it is not working.
Special skills students exhibit that are unusual for their age or grade.
Student’s innovative use of common materials in the classroom or outside of it.
Student’s breadth of information.
Student’s depth of information in a particular area.
Student ’s collections of materials or hobbies.
Student’s persistence on uncompleted tasks.
Student’s absorption in intellectual tasks.
Extensiveness of student’s exploratory behavior.
Student’s criticalness of his or her own performance.
Student’s preferences for complexity, difficulty, and novelty in tasks.
Adapted from Elizabeth Hagen, Identification of the Gifted: pgs

8. Characteristics of the GT Student
Learns more rapidly
Stronger need to know (curious)
Superior communication skills
Longer attention span
Perceives more unusual relationships
Sees/creates patterns
More intense interests
More intellectually playful
Better at sensing discrepancies
Better retention of information
More imaginative

9. Characteristics of the GT mathematics student:
Solves problems, yet sometimes not able to explain procedures.
Performs computations easily and accurately, but resists extensive calculating
Hypothesizes frequently, seems to make leaps in mathematical reasoning.
Works a long time on challenging problems although there may be no solution (e.g., trisecting an angle)
Works easily with technology (e.g., calculators, computers) and/or other measuring device.
Is preoccupied with scales, statistics, records (e.g., the first, highest, the most in athletics, music trivia) almanacs, globes, maps.
Devises own languages, codes, and number systems.
Is sensitive to patterns in shapes, intervals of music and numerals; patterns in nature.
Has the ability to translate the unfamiliar abstraction into a familiar form (e.g., converting an algebraic idea into his/her own formula or a feeling into a simile or a metaphor).
Can translate the familiar into an abstraction.
Intuitively solves seemingly difficult problems (such as in mathematics) mentally.
Computes answers in a non-traditional manner.
Uses unusual techniques in problem solving.

10. Characteristics of the GT Language Arts Students
Possesses an extensive vocabulary
Has a keen power of observation
Has a good memory
Perceives abstract ideas rapidly
Has an ability to portray to others feelings, actions, personalities, and situations
Possesses creativity and inventiveness
Has varied interests
Has a sense of humor; demonstrates an intellectual playfulness with words
Writes fluently with insight and strong personal voice
Sees relationships among apparently unrelated ideas
Reads avidly ( may have been an early reader)

12. BRIGHT CHILD or THE GIFTED LEARNER
Knows the answers.                                 Asks the questions.
Is interested.                                                Is highly curious.
Is attentive.                                                  Is mentally and physically involved.
Has good ideas.                                          Has wild, silly ideas.
Works hard.                                                Plays around, yet tests well.
Answers the questions.                             Discusses in detail, elaborates.
Top group.                                                   Beyond the group.
Listens with interest.                                   Shows strong feelings and opinions.
Learns with ease.                                         Already knows.
6-8 repetitions for mastery.                        1-2 repetitions for mastery.
Understands ideas.                                     Constructs abstractions.
Enjoys peers.                                               Prefers adults.
Grasps the meaning.                                   Draws inferences.
Completes assignments.                            Initiates projects.
Is receptive.                                                Is intense.                              
Copies accurately.                                     Creates a new design.
Enjoys school.                                            Enjoys learning.                               
Absorbs information.                                Manipulates information.                       
Technician.                                                  Inventor.
Good memorizer.                                         Good guesser.
Enjoys simple, sequential lesson.            Thrives on complexity.
Is alert.                                                         Is keenly observant.
Is pleased with own learning.                  Is highly self-critical. 
(sort & match activity)

13. Faculty Meeting GT ID Staff Development
8/23/2018
Example
Your Name
Oct 10- Nov. 15, 2014
Maria
Jose
Mike
Susie
Angelia
Angelia
Jose
Jose
Angelia
Maria

14. GT Nomination Packet K-2nd English and Spanish forms
3rd-12th English and Spanish forms
Nomination for Gifted Services
Creative/Divergent Thinking Checklist
Parent Questionnaire
Teacher Questionnaire
Permission to Test

15. Bertha Ortiz Advanced Academics Specialist Ext. 1084 bortiz@eisd.net
Kinder Nominations due to
Advanced Academics Specialist on
Jan. 19, 2018
1st – 12th grade Nominations due to
Feb. 22, 2018
Bertha Ortiz
Advanced Academics Specialist
Ext. 1084