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Gifted and Talented
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Transfer Students from another Gifted and
Talented Program:
If your child has participated in a GT
program in another district or state, and all the data is current, the committee
may review this information for placement. Outdated testing will be
re-administered. MISD committee review will occur within six weeks of the first
day of school or for those entering mid-year, the registration date of the
student.
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Selection of Students
Step-by-Step Procedure
1. Nomination forms are made available to all teachers,
parents, and students. (See counselor, ALPHA teacher, or this site
for the Nomination Form, Parent Observation Form, etc.). This
information is publicized in local newspapers, on Channel 98,
included in school newsletters, web pages, and flyers posted at each
campus.
MISD does not offer assessment services to the general
public, only registered McKinney ISD. students.
2. Teacher Inventories are distributed and returned to Alpha teacher
or Counselor.
3. Student product samples or other qualitative measurements, such
as Academic Rating Scales and other teacher observation forms, are
gathered.
4. All eligible nominated students are tested in their primary
language or using nonverbal tests.
Any student who has been tested within one calendar year of
nomination on a nationally-normed assessment may be exempt from
further testing.
5. All available information is placed on the Student Profile Sheet.
The Student Profile Sheet acts as a table of contents for the
portfolio and allows the District Selection Committee to view data
results as a whole.
6. District Selection Committees (elementary and secondary) meet to review nominations and make
decisions on each. Members include administrators, counselor, GT
Specialists, and Alpha classroom teachers, to include member (s)) ethnically representative of the
student population. All members meet the requirement for state
GT (Gifted and Talented) certification.
7. Students
must qualify in a minimum of 5 of 7 categories for placement.
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Cognitive Abilities: 95% minimum NPR (national percentage rate;
Verbal or Quantitative
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Reasoning Abilities: 95% minimum NPR
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Achievement in Math/Science: 94% minimum NPR
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Achievement in Language Arts: 94% minimum NPR
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Observational information – outside of school; Gifted
characteristics must be clearly evident
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Teacher Observation - highest rating must be predominant
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Student Products (generated in school/class)
8. If the District Selection Committee deems further assessment is
necessary, the Gifted Specialist will gather that information.
9. Parents are notified of committee decisions through regular mail.
Appeals will be handled in a manner consistent with MISD policy- FNG
(Local).
Please review RIGHTS and COMPLAINTS by clicking on the link on the
right side of this web page.
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