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2.5.5 Acknowledging, Nurturing, and Celebrating Giftedness for Heightened Engagement, Achievement, and Self-Aawareness in Gifted Students
Schools utilizing a limited set of gifted identification tools and strategies acknowledge and celebrate achievement in a narrow range of subjects, resulting in students’ low levels of creativity, narrowed self-awareness, limited achievement, and poor mental health. This presentation provides a framework of key factors that guide processes for the identification of and differentiation for gifted students in all domains through a holistic program of learning. This framework of integrated factors describes practices of acknowledging student giftedness, nurturing thinking skills and creativity, and celebrating achievement, practices which we have found lead to expansive self-awareness, heightened engagement, and higher levels of achievement.