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S4.6.2 Specialized Schools for Talent Development: Delivering an Advanced Education Program
This symposium panel session, "Specialized schools for talent development: Delivering an advanced education program," will serve as a professional resource for educators, administrators, researchers, and parents in planning comprehensive and sequenced learning experiences for high ability students across content areas. Ideally, a differentiated and specialized educational program for advanced learners should begin during elementary school and continue seamlessly through higher education with an interdisciplinary and applied approach.
The expert panelists in this symposium will present a forum discussion focused upon the associated elements to be included and articulated throughout a rigorous and interdisciplinary program for developing talent among advanced learners. The members of the panel have each written extensively about gifted education topics and collectively contributed to the literature focused on designing and implementing specialized programming for gifted students.
Specific details and essential understandings about (a) program evaluation and assessment practices for advanced learners; (b) primary specialized school design with specific school model details; (c) secondary specialized school design with specific planning and model details related to STEM programs; (d) the infusion of creativity into an educational program with music and the arts; and (e) other examples of model specialized schools will be included in the symposium panel discussion.
With an all-star set of contributors, each panelist will offer a rich presentation about differentiated resources for educators interested in designing and implementing programs in approved specialized school settings. The session will be moderated with prompts and questions posed to the panelists.
Panelists will share insights from their work and collectively provide a dialogue about how to develop high levels of talent for future achievers and creative producers through a carefully planned approach. Participants will gain valuable information about delivering gifted education program services, differentiated for learning needs of the next generation of creative critical thinkers and promising problem solvers.
Participants will learn about the complex and rigorous articulation of educational programming offered in non-traditional, publicly-approved, and private settings, with important details about how to serve high ability learners in specialized schools and deliver school-wide educational change.