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DeSoto, Glades, and Hendry Registration Link
Highlands Registration: Search for the Webinar title in your Frontline PLM Portal
This course enables educators to develop, increase and demonstrate knowledge about the Matrix of Services. Content and activities examine the requirements for matrix completion and provide the opportunity to accurately complete a matrix for students with disabilities. The course identifies how student educational needs and services impact the matrix funding document.
DeSoto, Glades, and Hendry Registration Link
Highlands Registration: Search for the Webinar title in your Frontline PLM Portal
DeSoto, Glades, and Hendry Registration Link
Highlands Registration: Search for the Webinar title in your Frontline PLM Portal
DeSoto, Glades, and Hendry Registration Link
Highlands Registration: Search for the Webinar title in your Frontline PLM Portal
DeSoto, Glades, and Hendry Registration Link
Highlands Registration: Search for the Webinar title in your Frontline PLM Portal
Education of Special Populations of Gifted Students provides an overview of the challenges and issues that face diverse populations of gifted students as they struggle to gain acceptance, recognition, and access to appropriate gifted education to meet their individual needs. It incorporates central issues in multicultural education that examine questions of equity and excellence; prejudice and stereotyping of special populations; and lack of awareness, understanding, and recognition manifested in discriminatory practices on the national, state, and local levels. It examines policies and procedures to screen, identify, and provide appropriate modifications to curriculum for these diverse gifted students. The module provides an overview of the types of diverse perspectives and their impact on the development of gifted abilities, such as ethnic heritage and culture, minority status, language, diverse physical and mental abilities, gender and age, socioeconomic status and poverty, and diverse family structures.
Nature and Needs of Students Who Are Gifted provides an overview of the evolution of gifted education on the national, state, and local level. Major events affecting gifted education are described as well as major policies and procedures governing the delivery of gifted education. Cognitive, social, and emotional characteristics common to individuals who are gifted are identified along with strategies that can be used to meet the academic needs of different categories of students who are gifted.
