What is Giftedness?
What is Howard County's Definition of Giftedness?
The Gifted and Talented Education Program is based upon two definitions of giftedness which serve as a foundation for talent development in the program and selection of students.
- Gifted and talented students are defined as children and youth who give evidence of high performance capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic, or leadership capacity, or in specific academic fields, and who require services or activities not ordinarily provided by the school in order to fully develop such capabilities. (Annotated Code of Maryland, 8.201.202)
- Gifted behavior consists of behaviors that reflect an interaction among three basic clusters of human traits... above average ability, high levels of task commitment, and high levels of creativity. Students demonstrating gifted behaviors are those possessing or who are capable of developing this composite set of traits and applying them to any potentially valuable area of human performance. (Adapted from Joseph Renzulli's definition)
exerpt from Gifted & Talented Program Site
The Gifted and Talented Education Program is based upon two definitions of giftedness which serve as a foundation for talent development in the program and selection of students.
- Gifted and talented students are defined as children and youth who give evidence of high performance capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic, or leadership capacity, or in specific academic fields, and who require services or activities not ordinarily provided by the school in order to fully develop such capabilities. (Annotated Code of Maryland, 8.201.202)
- Gifted behavior consists of behaviors that reflect an interaction among three basic clusters of human traits... above average ability, high levels of task commitment, and high levels of creativity. Students demonstrating gifted behaviors are those possessing or who are capable of developing this composite set of traits and applying them to any potentially valuable area of human performance. (Adapted from Joseph Renzulli's definition)
exerpt from Gifted & Talented Program Site