Intervention with Students who are Gifted, Creative, and Talented

 

Intervention:

Children who are gifted and talented need special intervention, if they are able to meet their full potential. Like any student their work should challenge them.

Currently, the most common types of educational delivery methods for students who are gifted are; enrichment, ability grouping, mentoring, and acceleration. Research would suggest that the most effective model is acceleration.
                                           

      

Acceleration:

Acceleration allows for gifted students to move through the education system at their own pace. This would include; early admission into kindergarten programs and skipping grades.
                                                          

Ability Grouping:

Ability grouping is the concept of placing students either part-time or full-time with other students of the same abilities.

Mentor Programs:

Mentor Programs are joining community programs with the school system, which can provide additional learning for the student.

Enrichment:

Enrichment would be where we see our differentiated instruction. The classroom curriculum would be designed for the gifted student to challenge and interest them.

Advanced Placement:

There are over 500 schools Canada wide that offer advanced placement programs that help prepare students for college or university.  The College Board offers a variety of services and programs which allow students to take College and University courses and exams and earn credit or placement while still in High school.
For more information, visit www.apcanada.collegeboard.org

How Schools are Helping:

There are some local schools that offer some amazing opportunities to their local students and also other students who meet program criteria.

Centennial Collegiate Vocational Institute 

Centennial CVI offers some amazing opportunities for their gifted students. They are a great example of how mentor programs are beneficial. Centennial CVI, offers a program in which students are provided the opportunity to take a first year university course. As a group the students will visit the university once a week to take part in a class.

Centennial CVI also offers fun opportunities with the school for students. Such as their yearly math contest. Students may also take part in Brain Bee, which brings students from all over Canada to McMaster University. Students who place in 1st, 2nd and 3rd place take home cash prizes and trophies. Last year a local Guelph student took home 2nd place.

Centennial CVI also offers two more programs that give students a look at university life. One program allows for students to live of campus for 5 days while studying a subject at the university.

For more information about the programs offered at Centennial CVI or the Brain Bee you can visit :

http://www.ugdsb.on.ca/ccvi/Special%20Education%20Department%200910/specialeducationgifted.html

http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/brainbee/

Eastwood Collegiate Institute

Eastwood is the only school in the Waterloo region that offers students in grades 9-12, a range of programs in all the art areas; Dance, Drama, Music (Bands, Strings, Vocals), Visual Arts and Production Technologies.

Integrated Arts Programs:

Eastwood offers an Enriched and Practical Integrated Arts program.  The enriched program students take a  major and a minor, within the arts that they are most interested in.  Students are taught based upon an integrated approach.  Students in the practical program have auditioned into their area of interest. Students must apply and audition for both programs.  Students in both programs are also working towards their High School Diploma.  Eastwood also offers a program called Specialist High School Major, which focuses on Arts and Culture.  To find out more about these programs at Eastwood, please visit
http://eci.wrdsb.ca/arts-program

There are many public and private schools in North America which offer gifted and talented programs for elementary and secondary students. Some of these include:

Ontario:

• Academy for Gifted Children, Richmond Hill
• Glashan Public School, Ottawa
• Markham District High School, Markham

Canada wide:

• Westmount Charter School, Alberta
• Choice School for Gifted Children, British Columbia
• Centennial Regional High School, Quebec
• Walter Murray Collegiate Institute, Saskatchewan