Gifted Education Services
Gifted education services provide a cohesive continuum of appropriately challenging and differentiated educational experiences at the school, district, and community levels for identified students at all grade levels. Eligibility for the gifted program is determined by prescribed criteria established by the school division and approved by the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Gifted resource teachers (GRTs) support and provide appropriately challenging academic learning opportunities through a variety of services including working directly with students, families, and classroom teachers. GRTs collaborate, co-teach, and coach with classroom teachers to develop and provide appropriate learning experiences and environments to meet the academic, artistic, creative, social, and/or emotional needs of advanced students and students who have been identified as gifted.
At the secondary level, gifted resource teachers extend and enrich the curriculum for gifted students and conduct progress monitoring for students’ academic, social, and emotional needs. Gifted resource teachers collaborate with classroom teachers to provide appropriately challenging academic learning through a variety of services, including working directly with teachers, students, and families. Middle school students are clustered, as possible with intellectual, like-minded peers to facilitate and support differentiation in the classroom and independent study opportunities are available. High school students may choose to take a number of challenging college courses within specified programs of study, or may choose to take challenging courses of interest.