Practicum Addendum

Knowledge and Skills and objectives to evaluate practicum performance for Licensure to teach Students with Gifted Educational Needs Skills

GT 3 S1 Identify defensible (comprehensive, systematic, objective) and equitable procedures for identifying and placing learners with gifts and talents in appropriate programs and services.

GT 3 S 2 Use exceptionality-specific assessment instruments, both formal and informal, including learner interviews, for assessing students with gifts and talents.

GT 3 S 3 Evaluate learner products and portfolios appropriately.

GT 4 S 1 Design cognitively complex discussion questions, projects, and assignments that promote reflective, evaluative, non-entrenched thinking in students with intellectual or academic gifts or talents.

GT 4 S 2 Select instructional model(s) appropriate to teaching topics, content area, or subject domain.

GT 4 S 3 Use instructional models; topic/domain instructional model matches commonly implemented in teaching gifted learners; and cognitive, creative, affective, and ethical taxonomies in order for higher levels to be addressed through instructional strategies.

GT 5 S 1 Monitor and evaluate program activities for the purpose of continued program development or refinement.

GT 8 S 1 Maintain knowledge of current research and literature in the field of special education and gifted education.