*PD+Eligibility+Spring+2015

This PD session was held at Mansfield Township Elementary School on 4/28/15:

** Identification/Eligibility Systems for Gifted Education ** **// …in the changing landscape of standardized testing //** //Gifted behavior occurs in certain people, at certain times, under certain circumstances.// Talent Pool plus open door for ALL students, via Schoolwide Enrichment model
 * __NJDOE regulations__**
 * __Best Practices__**
 * NAGC – Position paper
 * Confratute – E. Jean Gubbins : Mission Statement
 * Others
 * Renzulli: []

//__Dumbing Down America: The War on Our Nation’s Brightest Young Minds…__//
 * Jim Delisle: Giftedness as what you are, not what you do.
 * Josephine Giaimo: High Achiever/Gifted Learner/Creative Thinker – see handout
 * []
 * Program design ~targeted population
 * Schools most frequently target high achievers
 * Sir Ken Robinson: **//Can Creativity be Taught?//** (highlight at 1:20) Youtube
 * __Constructing evaluation systems__**
 * Objectivity
 * Can you defend this? Parents will ask – be prepared
 * We are not identifying giftedness – we are identifying those students most likely to benefit from our gifted program (Angela Housand)
 * Balance
 * There IS a place for subjective information (Mary Sullivan; E. Jean Gubbins)
 * Parent input is valuable
 * Flexibility
 * Remember that the system exists to serve the needs of the children
 * The question of reevaluation
 * E. Jean Gubbins recommends NOT to reevaluate, potential lawsuits due to possibility of statistical error
 * MTES: //Students who have previously been found eligible for the Gifted and Talented Program do not need to be retested to maintain eligibility. Eligibility continues based on successful participation. Participation may be customized to meet student needs.//

__See additional files:__


 * __Evaluation Tools__**
 * Teacher and/or Parent Rating Scales


 * Use of PARCC
 * Appropriateness?
 * Changes in state regulations
 * __A-4190 __** Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:…During the 2015-2016 through 2017-2018 school years, the PARCC assessment shall not be used in making a determination regarding a student's placement in a gifted and talented program… This act shall take effect immediately.
 * __A-3079 __** Be It Enacted …As used in this section, “commercially-developed standardized assessment” means an assessment that requires all test takers to answer the same questions, or a selection of questions from a common bank of questions, in the same manner, and is developed and scored by an entity under a contract with a board of education. **1**__A commercially-developed standardized assessment shall not include diagnostic and formative assessments used by teaching staff members to identify particular student learning needs or the need for special services, or to modify instructional strategies to improve individual student learning.__**1** A board of education shall not administer any commercially-developed standardized assessment that is not required pursuant to State or federal law to a student enrolled in kindergarten through the second grade. …


 * SAGES2


 * Letsgolearn


 * Insight pilot – info from webinar 4/23


 * OTHER?