- All children have the right to progress at an academically appropriate level of challenge.
- Kansas is one of a few states that provides a mandate to identify and provide services to gifted children in Kindergarten through 12th grade under the umbrella of special education.
- Without proper identification and appropriate services gifted children are at a great risk for failing to meet their potential.
- Gifted education is not about status, it is about meeting student needs.
- Advanced learners are found in all cultures, ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic groups.
- Gifted learners also have learning and physical disabilities. These "twice-exceptional" students often go undetected in regular classrooms, because their disability and gifts mask each other; making them appear "average."
- Most gifted learners spend over 80% of their school day in the regular classroom, but 61% of their teachers have no training in gifted interventions and needs.
KGTC Mentorship Program Winners
2018 - 2019 Robert Bovaird
2018 - 2019 Connor Bechard
2019 - 2020 Michelle Lewis
2019-2020 Rose Lawler
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About Gifted.....
Michelle Lewis
Announcing KSDE & KGTC Cooperative Venture
The Kansas Sate Department of Education and the Kansas Association for Gifted, Talented, and Creative are working together to complite list of giftted educators in Kansas for the purpose of sharing identification criteria, starting IEP golal banks, and developing networking between all areas of the state.
Congratulations to the KGTC Mentorship Program Winners
KGTC selected two gifted educators in their first year of teaching gifted education to be the recipients of the first annual KGTC Mentorship Program. Michelle Lewis and Rose Lawler received free tuition to KGTC's 2019 Annual Conference and will be mentored for a year by an experienced gifted educator.
Congratulations!
Kansas State Department of Education Gifted Education Services
KSDE is a websource that contains many useful links for gifted educators including the Effective Practices Instructional Kit, Data Sources and Gifted Education Documents.
Click the title above to go to the main Gifted Education Services page.