Placement of Students Who are Gifted

Abstract

Placing gifted and talented students together organizationally is not a substitute for appropriate services. The placement or program model fundamentally serves as a vehicle to group or organize students together but programming, in practice, sometimes referred to as a service delivery model, is not the same thing as service. Placement is a management strategy. It must be coupled with curriculum and instructional modifications in order for substantial and positive academic and social–emotional effects to occur for gifted and talented students. Specifically, the program placement model is only as good as the curriculum and instructional models provided within that placement. This chapter provides descriptions and research evidence of the macro program models used for serving gifted students and more commonly used program placement models for grouping gifted students together within the traditional school day and beyond. Non-negotiable components and future directions are also discussed within the context of placement.

Citation

Brown, E.F. and Stambaugh, T.L. (2014), "Placement of Students Who are Gifted", Gifted Education: Current Perspectives and Issues (Advances in Special Education, Vol. 26), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 41-69. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0270-4013(2014)0000026003