Gifted/talented students are those identified as possessing talent or the potential for performing at remarkably high levels. These students exhibit high performance capability in the areas of intelligence, academics, creativity, leadership and/or visual/performing arts. They require services or activities not ordinarily provided by the school in order to fully develop such capabilities.
Intellectual – as evidenced by superior aptitude for:
Understanding facts, concepts, generalizations and their relationships
Identifying patterns
Demonstrating verbal and nonverbal reasoning
Perceiving spatial relationships
Developing and evaluating ideas
Academic – as evidenced by superior ability in mastering skills and concepts in one or more curricular areas.
Creativity – as evidenced by superior abilities in:
Fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration
Divergent thinking skills
Problem solving strategies
Leadership – as evidenced by a variety of outstanding characteristics including:
Willingness to assume responsibility
Interpersonal intuition
Ability to motivate performances of others and follow through with action
Rapid insight into cause and effect relationships