Gifted services are offered to certified gifted students. Students qualify according to state guidelines for IQ, achievement testing, and parent and teacher gifted checklists. Generally a referral is made by a teacher and a gifted screening is done. This includes completing parent and teacher checklists and reviewing achievement testing. State testing is used if available. If not available, our school psychologist will do an individual achievement test. If a student qualifies as intellectually gifted, we will then have an IEP meeting and determine if the student needs cannot be met in the regular classroom.
IEPs last a year and we will meet at least once a year to write a new IEP.
Sumner County Gifted Services
Philosophy
Sumner County Schools is committed to providing opportunities to nurture, challenge, and develop potential of gifted learners. We recognize that intellectually gifted students have unique needs which warrant differentiated curriculum and programming. Gifted children differ from others in learning ability; they learn faster, have wider interests, have greater capacity to learn material, and think with greater depth about what they learn. A continuum of services is designed to enhance critical, conceptual, and abstract thinking, problem-solving, and creativity within content areas.
Mission
Our mission is to guide gifted learners to realize and utilize their potential.
Vision
Our vision is to meet the needs of gifted learners, all day, every day.
Services
Opportunities for gifted learners are provided in accordance with their intellectual abilities and academic aptitudes. Gifted learners can participate in a gifted pull-out class that will develop critical thinking and creative problem solving applied to advanced academic content and problems.
Program Goals
• To develop critical, conceptual, and abstract thinking within content areas
• To develop creative problem-solving within content areas
• To promote positive affective development
Mrs. Getter's Class 