Gifted Identification
Gifted students are defined as those who perform or show the potential to perform at remarkably high levels of accomplishment when compared with others of the same age, experience, or environment and who are identified under the division (A), (B), (C), or (D) of section 3324.03 of the Ohio Revised Code.
The district accepts referrals, screens and identifies, or screens and reassesses students who perform or show potential for performing at high levels of accomplishment in the areas of superior cognitive ability, specific academic ability, creative thinking ability, and/or visual and/or performing arts. The district must follow policy and procedures established in Ohio Administrative Code 3301-51-15. These rules specify that assessment instruments must come from the list approved by the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce.
Gifted Services
Piqua City Schools offers a continuum of services for gifted learners, which includes:
- Cluster grouping in Reading and Math (K-12)
- Advanced classes in Reading and Math (7-8)
- Honor classes (9-12)
- Advanced Placement (AP)
- College Credit Plus Courses
- Early entrance to kindergarten or first grade
- Subject acceleration
- Whole grade acceleration
General Characteristics of Gifted Students
- They have a natural talent and interest in one or more areas and a great capacity within that area or talent(s).
- They learn quickly in the are of talent(s).
- They require little repetition when learning new information in the area of talent.
- They have a finely-tuned nervous system which responds quickly to multiple sensory and affective stimuli.
- They probe for more knowledge and deeper meaning in the area of talent.
- They synthesize many sources of information.
- They view the world and situations holistically or globally.
- They often have strong opinions and feelings.
- They have a variety of learning styles: self-directed/guided by others, individual learners/group learners.
- They have a variety of personality profiles: generous to a fault/self-centered, anti-social/social-conformist, cooperative/rebellious, and all profiles found in the general population in every part of the known world at every developmental stage.
- They will often take on the problems of the world – that is, will self-impose the obligation to better the world (family, school, environment)