I. Goal: To provide training for all staff on the procedures for referring and identifying students for gifted services.
Develop training and assemble handouts to include forms, procedures, etc.
Schedule training annually to update procedures and inform new staff.
Implement training.
Maintain documentation of training provided.
Evaluate the effectiveness of training.
II. Goal: To continue working towards racial equity in the gifted program.
Provide yearly in-service for all elementary and middle school faculties concerning the issues associated with identifying underrepresented groups.
Utilize appropriate assessments to make screening/eligibility decisions.
Strive to allocate gifted teachers for schools with high numbers of minority or low socio-economic students to conduct child-find activities and implement enrichment programs to nurture gifted potential.
III. Goal: To continue conducting Child Find Activities
Implement mandatory Second Grade Child Find Activity.
Review SAT or other group aptitude test scores and refer any students who have high aptitude or achievement scores.
Provide public notice in the handbook or Code of Conduct.
Schedule gifted teachers into second-grade classrooms to conduct lessons that yield gifted behaviors and products.
Provide yearly staff development for general education teachers concerning the referral process.
IV. Goal: To ensure that there are comparable services throughout the system.
Communicate with principals and check teachers’ schedules to make sure that students in the same grade level across the system are receiving the same number of hours of service.
Allocate gifted teachers equitably taking into consideration caseloads and number of schools served.
Strive to find classroom space for each gifted teacher that is comparable to other programs.
V. Goal: To work towards a true continuum of services for high-end learners.
Provide pullout services for grades 3-5 or 3-6.
Provide consultation services for grades K-2.
Provide advanced courses for grades 6 or 7-12.
Consult, as time will allow, with general education teachers across grade levels concerning meeting the needs of high-end learners in the general education classroom.
VI. Goal: To provide a curriculum for gifted learners that is concept and problem-based.
Support gifted teachers in attending professional development in the areas of concept and problem-based learning.
Support gifted teachers in meeting with other gifted specialists to work on units of study.
VII. Goal: To maintain program evaluation procedures that direct program improvement.
Use multiple data sources and methods.
Disseminate evaluation information annually.
Use information for program development, improvement, and expansion.
VIII. Goal: To develop school and community awareness of the needs of gifted students in Baldwin County Public Schools.
Continue regular meetings with local school Gifted Education Parent Advisory Committees.
Schedule annual meetings for the Gifted Education District Parents’ Advisory Committee.
Offer a range of networking opportunities and training to parents of gifted students at both the local and district level each year.
