Clinical Associate Professor Purdue University, Indiana
Short description: Gifted education programs work well for the students who are served by them, but too many students from underrepresented groups remain unidentified. In this session, we provide an alternative to traditional identification processes by promoting talent identification, a strengths-based, personalized approach that is more effective, respectful, and equitable. Topics include teachers as talent scouts, frontloading, and using test results differently.
Learning Outcomes: Participants will:
Learn about a talent development approach to equitable identification
Learn about frontloading as an effective means to mitigate insufficient opportunities to learn
Understand how universal screening and use of local norms in identification can be misused