This document delineates both requisite and exemplary standards for gifted education programming, and depicts pre-collegiate gifted programming standards for gifted education, representing a range of minimal, or requisite, and exemplary, or visionary, levels of performance.
Standards represent both requisite program outcomes and standards for excellence.
Standards establish the level of performance to which all educational school districts and agencies should aspire. Standards represent professional consensus on critical practice in gifted education that most everyone is likely to find acceptable. Standards are observable aspects of educational programming and are directly connected to the continuous growth and development of gifted learners. Definitions Gifted education programming is a coordinated and comprehensive structure of informal and formal services provided on a continuing basis intended to effectively nurture gifted learners. Minimum standards include requisite conditions for acceptable gifted education programming practice.