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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another important benefit of Model 1 (cohorted classes) is that my understanding is that teachers of ELC classes get mandatory, focused training on how to teach and support gifted kids.  General elementary school teachers get little to no training on this.[/quote]

I haven’t seen training as part of the plan, I hope it is- for either model.  Model 2 may need even more training on handling the larger range of students in the same class and meeting everyone’s needs.[/quote]

At the Board of Ed subcommittee meeting on gifted kids a few weeks ago, it seemed pretty clear to me that ELC teachers are considered a special category that gets a whole bunch of dedicated training multiple times a year from the AEI office on a variety of topics related to gifted kids that they rattled off ... whereas it sounds like other/general ed teachers get little-to-none of that.  Stewart and Montoya both seemed concerned about that, FWIW.

Video is here, the section on training starts around 1:30 and lasts 15 minutes or so: https://mcpsmd.new.swagit.com/videos/341601[/quote]

It sounds like more of  targeted training and a train the trainer model.  They are training those who are  assigned person for gifted students, and also training leaders like Principals, Content Specialist, Reading Specialist.[/quote]

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