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THINGS YOU DID NOT KNOW ABOUT GIFTED STUDENTS
Gifted Students Need Support
Gifted students need supports just like musicians and athletes. They need to be guided by teachers who are trained and supported in providing gifted education. The gifted student needs to be continually challenged and sup...
GIFTED STUDENTS LEARN DIFFERENTLY
Gifted students learn differently and require special education supports in order to grow academically and achieve their potential. This includes:
- Appropriate identification
- Academic field exploration with the field and study in-depth learning
- Accelerated ...
HOW DO I KNOW MY CHILD IS GIFTED?
In my experience, there is not a grandparent in the world who is not convinced that their grandchildren are gifted. To listen to them, that giftedness is present in just about 98% of all children born. While such protestations make for great familial comraderie,...
THE STATE OF GIFTED EDUCATION
UNDERFUNDED AND INAPPROPRIATELY ADMINISTERED
Gifted Students come from all economic, racial, ethnic, and cultural populations and constitute 3.2 million school children or 6% of the school population. Gifted students perform at higher levels than their same-aged peer...
20 QUESTIONS
PARENTS SHOULD ASK AT THE IEP
If I hear just one more time how cute or how polite my son is I may never recover from the screaming meemies that will immediately descend upon me. It is wonderful that you recognize his cuteness but his cuteness will not improve his functional reading s...
DEFINING MEASURABLE GOAL COMPONENTS
If you have a student with an IEP you have read lots of goals, but do you have any idea about how appropriate a given goal is? Will this goal lead to any functional outcomes or is this just one more exercise in frustration? So how can I tell that the goal is a go...
SMARTER GOALS – R
RESEARCH/EVIDENCE-BASED METHODS SHOULD BE USED.
So why the emphasis on research/evidence based methods or programs? If you google something like "teach phonics step by step" you will have a mere 1,460,000 responses to plow through and figure out which ones work and which on...
SMARTER GOALS - E
EVALUATION OF THE DATA MUST BE DEFINED AND REVIEWED BY THE TEAM WITH READJUSTMENTS TO THE IEP BASED ON THAT DATA. IF THE DATA IS NOT RELEVANT OR SPECIFIC ENOUGH THE IEP OUTCOMES WILL SUFFER AND CHANGES ARE “BEST GUESSES” VS DATA-DRIVEN.
When determining what data will be coll...
SMARTER GOALS - TEACH
TEACHING MUST BE INDIVIDUALIZED WITH SDIs & RELATED SERVICES
Special Education is specially designed instruction (SDI's)and the related services needed by the child to benefit from that instruction according to the US Dept of Education.
Instructional Aids, Services, Supp...
SMARTER GOALS – R
GOALS MUST BE RELEVANT TO CURRICULUMS: General/Core, Modified, Expanded, & Functional
- General Education - Core Curriculum - Subject centered
- Use of State Standards or Common Core Standards2
- Modified Core Curriculum - Subject centered
- Based on ability and prio ...
SMARTER GOALS - A
DEFINE ATTAINABLE ADVANCEMENT THAT IS TIME BOUND.
So many times goals are about balance in addition to all of the other issues that need to be considered. The goal needs to be attainable within the year, yet there needs to be enough challenge to it that progress toward greate...
SMARTER GOALS – M
MEASURABLE AND MEANINGFUL DATA COLLECTION MUST BE ESTABLISHED
Identification of needs requires defined meaningful data collection that determines next steps in evaluations, research based programing, & other areas of need. The IEP is designed in order to allow the child:
- T...
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