Essential Components

  1. Identification: Using at least three appropriate assessment measures.
  2. Peer Association: Allowing identified gifted and talented students full or frequent opportunities to work together to meet their academic and affective needs.
  3. Content Differentiation: Providing depth, complexity, and acceleration commensurate with the abilities of the identified gifted and talented students.
  4. Differentiated Instruction: Using a variety of strategies that are recognized as being effective with gifted and talented students.
  5. Pacing: Appropriately and flexibly altering the rate of teaching, learning and thinking to meet the needs of identified gifted and talented students.

Utah State Office Education (2007). Utah gifted and talented handbook.

 

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