Gifted Program
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About our program
Fort Rucker Primary School provides appropriate educational services for students who are identified as gifted students. Our goal is to identify students with high potential and exceptional performance and to offer challenges that match those strengths. Children need a school environment that helps them realize their potential and instills in them a desire to use their talents and abilities. Students who perform or show the potential for performing at remarkably high levels when compared with others of their age, experience, or environment have learning needs which require differentiated learning experiences.
Gifted students are found at all grades and in many different areas. Students reveal their giftedness through indicators that they are developmentally out of sync with their age peers. They are learning faster; they are exploring more deeply. In some respects, their learning needs are not a good match to the standard curriculum. We identify each student's strengths and match their needs. There is a process that we follow for identifying gifted students. A student may be referred in three ways:
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1. He/she may have been identified in another school. If that child is transferring from another DoDEA school, he/she goes immediately into a gifted program. If the school is not DoDEA, the student begins the referral process as if he/she is a new candidate.
- 2. He/she may be discovered through a general screening of the entire school’s test scores.
- 3. He/she may be nominated by a teacher or parent.
Once a child’s name has surfaced, permission to assess the student will be required. The following pieces of evidence are gathered to determine eligibility.
- 1. parent rating scale
- 2. teacher rating scale
- 3. observations in the classroom
- 4. samples of the child’s work and accomplishments
- 5. testing information
- 6. student interview
The Gifted Review Committee evaluates this data after it is accumulated. The committee is comprised of the school counselor, the principal, the gifted education teacher, and the child’s classroom teacher.
The committee may make one of three recommendations:
- 1. The student is eligible to receive gifted services.
- 2. The student is ineligible to receive gifted services.
- 3. The student may be monitored for up to one semester before a decision is made.
Parents are notified by mail of the committee’s decision.
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