The AIG program has three portions: Nurturing Pool, Talent Pool, and a few students who are identified as gifted (who have documentation of ongoing needs in an Individual Plan). The program is provided by all teaching staff in the building working together. Please check below for more information on each portion of our program.
Nurturing PoolStudents participate in grades K-3 in the nurturing pool program through activities their homeroom teachers and grade level teams do to meet the needs of each student who needs challenge that cannot be given within the regular program. The gifted education facilitator also meets with selected students in grades 1-3 one to two times per week to provide enrichment activities. Students are being helped to grow and learn just as quickly and as deeply as they can, developing their gifted traits in hopes of future identification.
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Talent PoolIn grades 4-5, students are worked with in the same way as grades K-3 with some students transferring to the Talent Pool to encourage unseen traits of gifted behavior and to meet evident needs. With the Cognitive Abilities Test taken in third grade, we begin to receive objective testing scores that help us find more students whose ability may be strong, but whose classroom performance has not yet indicated an ongoing need for more challenging work or different instruction. In a normal year, we would also receive the NC End of Grade test scores at the end of each school year to help us include children in the Talent Pool. The Talent Pool is not a class, but rather is the pool of students (the cohort, group, etc.) from whom we hope to find and identify students as gifted with a formal label -- "identification," and for whom we ensure to offer different instruction as their needs indicate.
Students who have been in the nurturing pool the previous two consecutive years, who have teacher referrals for identification, or who have standardized testing at the 90th percentile or higher can all be included in the talent pool starting in 4th grade, as each batch of testing results are known. Like the Nurturing pool, any one indicator can bring a child into differentiated lessons/experiences within their grade or classroom. |
Identified as GiftedIdentification occurs starting at the end of third grade, or at the end of each year on up to 12th grade as new information on a student becomes available. As gifted in the state of NC is a label that is not re-evaluated, but remains throughout a child's life, it is a lengthy, thorough screening process that ensures fidelity and accuracy in matching the child to that label well. Information from Kindergarten to the enrolled year is considered.
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