Teachers Evaluations of NAGC Initial Knowledge & Skill Standards for Gifted and Talented Education

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Abstract

The National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) and the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)have jointly developed standards for the review of NAGC. These standards will be presented to theNCATE for adoption. If you are interested in reviewing the program standards and offering suggestionsbefore they are presented for adoption, please click on the URL below.The standards may be accessed at: http://www.nagc.org/index.aspx?id=1512 .These standards were evaluated by teachers enrolled in summer University graduate in the area ofgifted education scheduled at the University of Houston. Comments are modified verbatim text.Teachers were asked to select one or more standards and give their professional reaction to theselected standard (s). Some teachers made recommendations such as additions or deletions thatwould strengthen the standards. Some teacher respondents selected more than one standard in theirresponses.