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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was either a badly written article or DCPS does not have a clearly defined "gifted" program based on what I read, the section about the "interest survey" at Kelly Miller was the most confusing. I'm assuming that the interest survey helps the resource teacher design "gifted" activities to stimulate and interest the child rather than an actual program, but who knows. [/quote]

The whole program in DCPS is based on the Schoolwide Enrichment Model by Dr. Joseph Renzulli from the University of Connecticut. It rests on the "Three-Ring Conception of Giftedness" which is that gifted behaviors are found (and can be encouraged) at the intersection of: creativity, ability, and task commitment (aka internal motivation.) So therefore the whole concept of what is gifted isn't the traditional IQ-based one. There is a very large research base on the Schoolwide Enrichment Model & Three-Ring Conception of Giftedness for you to check out at your leisure.

[url]http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/sem/semexec.html[/url]
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The whole school model is great, I still think the Post article was badly written and confusing, it doesn't do justice to the model as presented here. This quote was particularly strange to me, “All of us in here, we are all readers, and our vocabulary is high,” said ... , a seventh-grader. What are the other students non-readers in 7th grade? If it's broadening the model of what we consider "gifted" I'm all for it, but it sounds like "enrichment" would be a better term. [/quote]

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