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Identification
Gifted Services
Differences in Poquoson
Differences in New Kent
100

School staff and administrators review the following items five times a year:

  • academic performance
  • nationally-normed assessment results (i.e., Iowa Test of Basic Skills in grades 2 and 5)
  • review of records from previous schools (transfer students)
  • review of academic classroom performance
  • classroom observations/checklist of student behaviors

Local Plan p. 7, 11

What is the gifted screening process?

100
  • individual or group aptitude/ability tests
  • individual or group achievement tests
  • teacher rating scales/observations
  • parent questionnaires
  • past and current grades
  • examples of student academic work/awards

Local Plan p. 8-9, 11

What information is considered by the Identification/Placement Committee? - OR-

What are the multiple criteria?

100
  • Pull-out program conducted at the gifted education center
  • Differentiated instruction
  • enrichment and exploratory activities in all academic and related art areas
  • 5 hours once per week
  • home-based school cluster grouping

Local Plan p. 13, 21-22

What services are provided to students in grades 1-5?

100

At this time each year, the gifted and school counseling staff at each school specifically request referrals for the following year. 

A pool of candidates is formed from any students who are referred from any source for any aspect of the program at any time throughout the year. 

Additional students may be added to the “pool” by the Coordinator upon review of transfer records (new students) or standardized test results. 

PCPS Local Plan p. 6

What is Spring?

100

Unlike YCSD, this county identifies for General Intellectual Aptitude (K-12) AND Specific Academic Aptitude (K-12).


NKCPS Local Plan p. 3, 5-6

What is New Kent County Public Schools?

200

School personnel, parents/guardians, community members, peers, and students themselves 

Local plan p. 8

Who can refer a student for the gifted identification process?



200

The Committee may decide a student is:

  • Eligible
  • Not eligible
  • More information is needed

The team must reach consensus.

Local Plan p. 11-12

What decisions can be made at the conclusion of an Identification/Placement meeting?

200
  • Pull-out program conducted at each middle school
  • Differentiated instruction
  • enrichment and exploratory activities in history/social sciences and science
  • pre-algebra
  • 90 minutes once per week

Local Plan p. 13, 21-22

What options are available to students in grades 6-7?

200

Though referrals are taking throughout the year, testing only occurs in these months. Parents are notified of the results within 90 school days of the referral. 

PCPS Local Plan p. 8-9

What are October and April?

200

The frequency a pool of potential candidates is created in NKCPS

NKCPS Local Plan p. 8

What is twice annually?

300
  • Gain parent permission to evaluate
  • Compile available data
  • Additional assessments if necessary
  • Information sent to division Gifted Education Identification/Placement Committee

Local Plan p. 8, 14

What happens after a student is referred?

300

Division-level:

  • Principal or designee
  • Gifted Education Coordinator
  • Gifted Education School Contact

(Note: Classroom teachers do not attend, but they submit current anecdotal report along with previously submitted questionnaire)

Local Plan p. 10

Who is on the Identification/Placement Committee?

300

Encouraged Choices:

  • YCSD Honors Program
  • Virtual Virginia online courses
  • the International Baccalaureate Programme (located at York High School)
  • Advanced Placement courses
  • The School of the Arts (located at Bruton High School)
  • Summer Residential Governor’s School
  • New Horizons Governor’s School for Science and Technology
  • Concurrent dual enrollment in cooperation with local colleges
  • Seminars
  • Other enrichment activities

Local Plan p. 13, 22

What service options are available to students in grades 8-12?

300
  • economically disadvantaged background
  • culturally diverse (e.g., non-white)
  • physically disabled
  • learning disabled
  • emotionally disabled
  • limited English proficient

PCPS Local Plan p. 5-6

What are PCPS' underrepresented populations?

300

The person responsible for providing all students in grades K-2 with lessons that target deductive reasoning skills, creativity, and evaluative thinking.

NKCPS Local Plan p. 8

Who is the gifted resource teacher?

400

No longer than 45 instructional days after referral

Local Plan p. 8

What is the timeline from referral to identification?

400
  • by letter (if eligible or not eligible)
  • by phone  (if more information is needed)

Local Plan p. 11-12, 14-15

How are parents informed of the decision?

400

An educational process in which four to seven gifted and talented students are assigned to an otherwise heterogeneous classroom within their grade.

Local Plan p. 13

What is clustered grouping in the general education classroom?

400
  • professional staff member (teacher, principal, psychologist, school counselor, Child Study Team, etc.)
  • parents or guardians
  • self

PCPS Local Plan p. 8

Who can make a referral?

400

All students in grades 2-8 are screened annually using a nationally-normed aptitude or achievement assessment. Students who score at or above this percentile will be closely monitored.

What is the 94th percentile?

500

General Intellectual Aptitude in Grades K-12

Local Plan p. 3

Which areas of giftedness are identified?

500
  • Parents have 10 instructional days to submit written request 
  • Principal and gifted teacher offer meeting 
  • If issue is unresolved, parents submit another written request
  • Principal forwards to Gifted Education Coordinator
  • Appeals committee meets with administrator from a different school
  • Parents receive final placement decision by mail within 20 instructional days
  • All decisions are final; Student can be re-referred after one calendar year

Local Plan p. 12, 14-15

What is the appeal process?

500
  • Eight mini-seminar classes
  • Enrichment in literature, history/social sciences, math, & science
  • Held at the gifted education center

Local Plan p. 13

What services are available for Kindergarteners?

500

DAILY DOUBLE!!

Requests will be considered and parent permission requested for additional assessment. Division staff will use a research-based protocol (ex. Iowa Acceleration Scale) to review student readiness. 

Local Plan p. 17

What is YCSD's philosophy on acceleration?

500

DAILY DOUBLE!!

Though not specifically addressed in the Local Plan (because they are not solely for students identified as "gifted"), these programs provide students in grades 1-12 with enriched instruction in the Arts and Computer Technology. All students who are county residents are eligible to apply for the schools. There is a lottery-style selection process for grades 1-5, an audition process for grades 6-12 students interested in the Arts, and an application process for students in grades 9-12 interested in computer technology.


https://ycsd.yorkcountyschools.org/domain/840 

https://ycsd.yorkcountyschools.org/SOA 

https://ycsd.yorkcountyschools.org/WMES

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