What is Gifted and Talented
To provide for the gifted students in our school we need to have a shared understanding of who they are and what they look like. We need an agreed vocabulary.
I have based the following on the work of Francoys Gagne` as his DMGT Model 2.0 (2007) has been used by most Australian Education Departments to develop their own policies. Gifted: The possession of higher natural abilities in at least one domain. These should fall within the top 10% compared to peers of the same age. Talented: To display abilities within the top 10% of peers, in at least one domain given similar opportunities. Note: a person gifted in reading or mathematics may not be a talented writer. IGAT: Intellectually Gifted and Academically Talented. Traditionally these are the students identified and provided for in schools. Twice Exceptional: These students and gifted and have a disability. A gifted mathematician with dyslexia, ADHD or autism may struggle to complete tasks set in class. Level of Giftedness: Giftedness is on a continuum. Students who are mildly gifted (1:10-1:40) are the most common found in schools. Moderately Gifted (1:40-1:1000) can be found at every year level and students who are more highly gifted than this often find alternative schooling. Types: Gifted students are certainly not homogeneous and they do not typically fit a stereotype. Most are actually quite socially successful and not all achieve well at school. Betts and Neihart (2010) identified 6 main types. Type 1 & 2 are IGAT and the others often struggle at school (see emoji cartoon). |
10 Myths of Gifted Education
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