by:

Connie Greer, Erica Klein, and Allene Moore

A survey was completed in 1978 showing out of 42 states 37responded with the recognition of certain attributes to the

gifted and talented:

Intellectually gifted

Performing and visual arts

Academically gifted

Creatively gifted

Leadership and specific academic area

Cultural diversity

This act supports students that are gifted andtalented and does not fund local gifted education programs. There are two priorities for grants forthe Jacob Javits program:

Initative to develop and scaled models to serve students who are underrepresented in the gifted and talented program.

To support state and local efforts to improve services for students.

Gifted and Talented students need support from teachers, and their families.

The teacher will compact lesson on a day to day basis as needed and will modify the scope and sequence with universal design, the students’ I.E.P.’s or the students individual program.

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.

Student possessing outstanding imagination, thinking ability, innovative or creative

reasoning ability, ability in problem solving, and/or high attainment in original or

creative thinking

Possessing the natural ability to influence others; possessing skills in interpersonal

relationships demonstrated, for example, by outstanding ability in such

activities as student government

Possessing superior ability or potential in a specific course of study such as

English language arts/reading, mathematics, science, or social studies

Teacher must provide gifted and talented children with an array of appropriately

challenging learning experiences in each of the four (4) foundation curricular areas is provided for gifted/talented students in grades K-12, and parents are informed of

the opportunities.Opportunities are provided to accelerate in

areas of student strengths

Gifted/talented curriculum is designed and evaluated through collaboration by

specialists in content areas, instructional techniques, and gifted/talented education.

Teachers, administrators, and counselors who work with gifted students or have authority for making program decisions will have training in understanding the nature of giftedness and the needs of

gifted students.

Texas requires that teachers of the gifted and talented are required to complete thirty (30) clock hours of professional

development in gifted education.

Texas State Plan for the Education of Gifted/Talented Students

Revised September 2009, Texas Education Agency Turnbull, Ann; Turnbull, Rud; and Wehmeyer, Michael (2009).

Exceptional Lives: Special Education in Today’s Schools. Prentice Hall;

Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.

www2.ed.gov/programs/javits/index.html

www.nagc.org/index.aspx?id=572