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Gifted & Talented

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The Ohio Department of Education publishes Gifted Operating Standards that all Ohio districts must follow when identifying and designing services for gifted children. While gifted identification is required by law, gifted services are not mandated. However, districts receive state funding for providing services that meet the criteria set forth in Ohio’s Gifted Operating Standards. GMLS offers various gifted services that meet the state criteria for students in grades 2-12.

Through the use of Ohio’s Content Standards, gifted programming is focused on evidence-based practices, which increase the rigor of instruction, strengthen cognitive abilities, increase creativity, and foster gifted learners' social and emotional development. Emphasis is placed on enhancing interpersonal and technical communication in the 21st Century for gifted youth to realize their potential.

The Groveport Madison Gifted and Talented Team is dedicated to providing appropriate and challenging services for our gifted youth. Students must meet gifted identification criteria set forth by the State of Ohio and then must meet the requirements set by the GMLS to qualify for specialized programming.

Current Programming Options

Groveport Madison Schools is dedicated to expanding opportunities for all students to reach their potential; with this goal in mind, we work to serve our students through a strong continuum of services, which begins in the first grade and continues until our students graduate.

Screening & Identification of Children Who Are Gifted

Students may be identified as gifted in one or more of the following areas: Superior Cognitive Ability, Reading, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Creative Thinking Ability, and the Visual and Performing Arts. Section 3324.03 of the Ohio Revised Code defines a child who is gifted as one who performs or shows potential for performing at remarkably high levels of accomplishment when compared to others of their age, experience, or environment.

Students who do not meet state gifted criteria, but score within the district-set screening range are believed to have a potential for scoring at the state required identification level and therefore are eligible for a second opportunity to test for giftedness. After each whole-grade level screening opportunity for science, social studies, and cognitive abilities (currently 2nd and 5th grades), students scoring in this screening range have the opportunity to be further assessed for possible gifted identification.

GMLS students also participate in MAP (Measures of Academic Progress) assessments three times per year in which they may be identified as gifted in math or reading, according to the state criteria. Students scoring in the screening range on any administration of the assessment will automatically have multiple opportunities to score in the gifted range during all subsequent MAP administrations.