Gifted Education

Gifted Education provides technical assistance to all public school systems serving Alabama’s gifted children. Intellectually gifted children and youth are those who perform or who have demonstrated the potential to perform at high levels in academic or creative fields when compared with others of their age, experience, or environment.​

Policy

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Help document for gifted referral and eligibility process.

This Gifted section of the AAC (Code) is effective on 5-14-09.

Forms

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Rights in Gifted Education

All forms for gifted referral to eligibility.

All forms for gifted referral to eligibility translated into Arabic.

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Gifted Standards and Student Outcomes

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The purposes of this document are: (a) to provide information to gifted specialists on what gifted learners need in order to continue grow and achieve; (b) to communicate to gifted learners what they will be learning; and (c) to inform stakeholders (parents, teachers, administrators) of student outcomes in the gifted classroom.

This document contains various checklists for teachers and students to document mastery of the competencies (standards) and skills/outcomes.

Gifted Standards and Student Outcomes – Resources

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Listed in this document are formative and summative assessment options that can be used to evaluate student mastery of content knowledge, conceptual understanding, and skills/processes. This list is not comprehensive but provides assessment formats that can assist teachers in determining student progress and mastery of objectives/standards.

Listed in this document are models and strategies that have research and/or best practices evidence for use with gifted learners. This list is not comprehensive but provides tried-and-true models and strategies for addressing the instruction of cognitive and affective skills and processes presented in the Gifted Standards and Student Outcomes guide.

Dispute Resolutions

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Description and forms for Gifted State Complaint and Mediation Processes.

Coordinator Resources

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Required Second Grade Child Find Procedures

LEA Technical Assistance Request Form

Guidance document for Alabama Gifted Continuous Improvement Procedures

2020 LEA Gifted Profile Needs Assessment

Instructions for developing the LEA Plan for Gifted