Forming a school gifted students policy

There are many possible reasons for forming a school gifted policy, including (courtesty of Lynne Kelly):

1. to be the guideline to formulate the actions to implement a gifted ed program
2. to inform other staff members of the goals and therefore formulate their roles within it
3. to inform administration of the goals for which budget and staffing submissions are made
4. to inform parents of the goals so they can evaluate whether this is the policy and possibly the school for their child
5. to inform the broader community of the educational policy for gifted students in the school
6. to act as an audit document to evaluate the implemented program.

The major steps in a school forming a gifted and talented students' policy developed from original work by Nancy Kaplan (article and source details unknown) are:

1. Considering the student population at the school

2. Constructing appropriate definitions including of "gifted" and "talented"

3. Establishing the philosophy, goals and objectives

4. Deciding identification procedures that will be used

5. Estabishing organisational procedures: prototypes, facilities, time allocation

6. Determining special curricular opportunities: activities, techniques, materials

7. Determining changes across the whole curriculum

8. Establishing supportive services: in-service, consultants, auxiliary personnel

9. Determining budgetary allocations

10. Determining evaluation procedures.

Some examples of schools' gifted and talented policies (not necessarily endorsed but suggested for comparison) can be found at the following URLs:

• Lyndale Secondary College Vic

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