What does "gifted" mean? 

North Carolina's definition of giftedness states: "Academically or intellectually gifted students perform or show the potential to perform at substantially high levels of accomplishment when compared with others of their age, experience, or environment. Academically and intellectually gifted students exhibit high performance capability in intellectual areas, specific academic fields, or in both the intellectual areas and specific academic fields." (Article 9B)


What does a gifted student look like?

Gifted students demonstrate a variety of traits, including:
  • Deep, intense feelings and reactions and high moral judgement
  • Abstract, complex, and logical way of thinking
  • Vivid imagination and unique sense of humor
  • Desire to organize people/things through games or complex schemes
  • Impulsive and enthusiastic

My Personal Philosophy

I believe that every child deserves an opportunity to learn at their own pace and receive the resources they need to do so. Students that are gifted demonstrate unique and advanced skills in certain topics, whether that happens to be in academic or creative fields. Gifted students can come from a variety of areas and can also be culturally, socioeconomically, or intellectually diverse.