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Gifted Students
  • Joy Kanyo
  • Curriculum Director
  • Waller ISD
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Who are these Students?
  • They have one or more areas of giftedness
    • Intellectual
    • Creative
    • Artistic
    • Leadership
    • Specific Academic
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Intellectual Giftedness
  • Possessing superior intelligence, with potential or demonstrated accomplishments in several fields of study
  • Ability to perform complex mental tasks
  • All at age appropriate levels
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Creative Giftedness
  • Possessing outstanding imagination, thinking ability, innovative or creative reasoning ability
  • Ability in problem solving
  • High attainment in original or creative thinking
  • All at age appropriate levels
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Artistic Giftedness
  • Possessing outstanding ability in the visual and performing arts
  • This is more than copying ability in drawing (this is an imitative skill)
  • This is more than memorizing of lines or notes but goes beyond to artistic interpretation
  • They see qualities and create them in ways that we can not begin to imagine until they show them to us
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Leadership Giftedness
  • Possessing the naturally ability to influence others
  • Possessing skills in interpersonal relationships
  • Examples
    • Outstanding ability in such activities as student government
    • Able to keep a group of strong personalities moving forward toward a common goal.


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Specific Academic Giftedness
  • Possessing superior ability or potential in a specific course of study
    • Science
    • Mathematics
    • Language arts
    • Social studies
    • Foreign languages
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What are the state’s goals for them?
  • They will demonstrate skills in
    • Self-directed learning
    • Thinking
    • Research
    • communication
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What will be the evidence of these skills?
  • Innovative products
  • Performance that reflect individuality
  • Performances that reflect creativity
  • Products and performances that are advanced in relation to students of similar age, experience, or environment


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How do these students look as young adults?
  • In the later years of high school they produce
    • products and performances of professional quality
    • Results that many adults wish they could achieve
    • Work that is more advanced than their teacher’s
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What should the curriculum be?
  • Provides options in intellectual, creative or artistic areas; leadership, and specific academic skills
  • Does not ask them to do more of the same “stuff” that everyone is else is doing


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What level of performance do we see in the classroom?
  • Cognitive Domain
    • Analysis
    • Synthesis
    • Evaluation
  • Affective Domain
    • Valuing
    • Organizing
    • Internalizing
  • Psychomotor Domain
    • Manipulating
    • Communicating
    • Creating